Located in the first arrondissement of the French capital, the prefiguration of the Louvre Museum was conceived between 1775 and 1776 by the Count d'Angiviller, the former director general of the King's Buildings. The Louvre was originally designed as a place to display masterpieces from the Crown's collection. Inaugurated in 1793, the Louvre was first called the Central Museum of the Republic in the eponymous palace, the former residence of the royal family. Today, it is the largest museum of art and antiquities on the planet. At the end of 2019, the museum holds within its walls more than 500,000 works, 36,000 of which are on public display. Located on the right bank between the Seine and the rue de Rivoli, the Louvre is identified by the glass pyramid of its reception hall built in 1989 in the courtyard of Napoleon. The pyramid has become emblematic and blends in perfectly with the royal landscape of the courtyard. In 2018, with approximately 10.2 million visitors per year, the Louvre became the most visited museum in the world, and is the most visited paying cultural site in France. Among its most famous works are the Mona Lisa, theVenus de Milo, the Crouching Scribe, the Victory of Samothrace and the Code of Hammurabi.