PARIS — The Louvre Museum is putting 31 paintings on permanent display in an effort to find the rightful owners of those and other works of art looted by Nazis during World War II.

Paris, beyond the Eiffel Tower, boasts iconic landmarks like the Louvre Museum, housing masterpieces such as the Mona Lisa.

The Musée du Louvre, generally just referred to as “The Louvre,” is the most famous and most visited museum in the entire world. It receives almost 9 million visitors every year and has over ...

There is a separate category for a mini-collection of more than 1,700 stolen artworks returned to France after World War II that the museum still holds because no rightful owners have come forward.

PARIS -- Signs ask visitors to keep their hands off the art in the Louvre Museum. But one special sculpture gallery invites art lovers to indulge. The Louvre’s Tactile Gallery, targeted to the ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is to be housed in a new underground gallery and require separate tickets. Also, non-EU ...