Musée des Souverains

The museum was located in five rooms of the Colonnade wing of the Louvre,^[1] on the first floor at the top of the wing's south staircase (escalier du midi), created under Napoleon by Pierre Fontaine to serve a projected suite of apartments and throne room that was never completed. The first three rooms had been decorated from 1828, under Charles X and the July Monarchy, with wood panelling and ceilings retrieved from historical buildings.^[4]: xiv The next two rooms were specifically designed for the museum in 1852 by Félix Duban^[4]: xxvii and decorated with paintings by Alexandre-Dominique Denuelle.^[5]

• Vestibule, with decoration from Anne of Austria's room at the Château de Vincennes;
• Chambre à alcôve, with decoration from Louis XIV's bedchamber in the Louvre Palace's Pavillon du Roi (on the location of the later salle des Sept-Cheminées);
• Chambre de parade, with decoration from Henry II's ceremonial chamber, also originally in the Pavillon du Roi;^[6]
• Salle de la monarchie or salle des Bourbons, with decoration glorifying the House of France;
• Salon de l'Empereur, at the midpoint of the Colonnade, with decoration glorifying Napoleon.

The first three rooms have been preserved to this day in a similar state, whereas the decoration of the latter two was dismantled after 1870. All these rooms are now all part of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre.

The collections included numerous objects including the regalia of the kings and queens of France including most of those preserved from the treasury of Saint-Denis, the treasury of the Order of the Holy Spirit, paintings, sculptures, stained glass windows, furniture, suits of armor, the throne of Dagobert, the baptistère de Saint Louis, and memorabilia of Napoleon.^[7] They were all listed in a 1866 catalogue by Barbet de Jouy.^[4]

• Musée de l'Histoire de France (Versailles)
• Cabinet des Médailles
• BELvue Museum