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The collections of the works are divided into eight departments and each exhibition room is assigned a department, though it may sometimes contain works from other departments as well.
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The Louvre is divided into eight curatorial departments. All works in the collections are assigned to one of them. Most exhibition rooms are also devoted to works from only one department, but this rule is less strictly enforced, and some rooms do not depend on any department.

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The room numbering system partly reflect this division into department. However the Department of Paintings and the Department of Sculptures are subdivided into smaller units. The rooms assigned to the Department of Print and drawings are often surrounded by rooms assigned to the Department of drawings on similar topics. They are numbered together.
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The way the rooms are numbered may be rather hard to understand. It is based on a mix of physical location and thematic similarity. In most cases, all rooms depending on a particular department are located close from one another, and are share the same numbering system. However, works from the department of Sculptures and from the department of Paintings, are located in several different places within the museum, and each of them has its own numbering system. Althugh they depend on a different department, rooms containing prints and drawings are often located next to similar rooms containing paintings, and share the same numbering system.
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List of exhibition rooms:

* '''{{Louvre department|Egyptian Antiquities}} '''

* '''{{Louvre department|Egyptian Antiquities}} '''

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