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  "editorialMarkdown": "[View next **Sainte-Chapelle**](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/sainte-chapelle>)\n\n## Musée du Louvre\n\nChoose a focused route through the Louvre’s galleries and courtyard.\n\n[Plan this experience](<https://www.louvre.fr/en/visit>)\n\n[Explore the story](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/musee-du-louvre#experience-story>)\n\nCost **Admission options**\n\nTime to allow **Allow 2–4 hours for a focused visit**\n\nPlace **Louvre & Tuileries, Paris**\n\n01 / The experience\n\n### A former palace with many possible routes through art.\n\nThe Louvre's collections occupy a palace large enough to shape the visit before a single artwork is seen. Courtyards, long façades, staircases and former royal rooms connect with galleries from many periods and places. The glass pyramid provides the best-known modern entrance image, but the building's older spaces remain part of the experience throughout.\n\n#### Collections inside a former royal palace\n\nThe collection allows very different visits. Greek sculpture brings the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace into view; painting leads towards the Mona Lisa and a much broader range of European work. Antiquities and decorative arts offer other routes, so the museum is better approached through a few connected interests than as a race between three famous objects.\n\nThe setting often adds another story to the art. The Greek antiquities occupy spaces once used as royal apartments, while monumental staircases change the approach to large sculpture. A work can therefore be understood through its material and history as well as the way the palace now frames it.\n\n#### Choosing rooms and exploring the courtyards\n\nThat range makes selection important for the quality of the visit. A route centred on painting will use different rooms and levels from one focused on sculpture or ancient cultures. Room closures, loans and changing displays can affect individual works, but the museum's scale means there is usually much more within a chosen subject than a first plan suggests.\n\nThe palace also has a strong outdoor presence. The courtyards and the route towards the  [Tuileries](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/louvre-tuileries>)  are worthwhile architectural spaces, with a completely different pace from the galleries. They provide context for the museum without requiring another interior visit.\n\nThe Louvre's appeal is in that combination of a vast collection and a building with its own history. The most memorable route is often the one that lets a few rooms and works form a coherent sequence, with the palace remaining visible around them.\n\n![Musée du Louvre, Paris](<https://above.guide/paris/_guide/images/tennis/roland-garros-tennis/generated-louvre-gallery-refresh-v2/musee-du-louvre-aerial-palace-pyramid-seine-v2.webp>)\n\nCulture & landmarks **Musée du Louvre** Paris\n\nIn pictures\n\n### The full gallery.\n\n02 / The essentials\n\n### Musée du Louvre: visit essentials\n\n1. 01\n\n   Louvre & Tuileries\n2. 02\n\n   Allow 2–4 hours for a focused visit\n3. 03\n\n   Normally closed Tuesday; Wednesday and Friday have evening opening. Check your date.\n\n04 / Before you go\n\n### Plan your visit\n\nChoose a focused route through the Louvre’s galleries and courtyard.\n\n#### Admission\n\nCheck the current admission price and ticket options before booking.\n\n[Check admission](<https://www.louvre.fr/en/visit>)\n\n#### Choose your visit\n\nNormally closed Tuesday; Wednesday and Friday have evening opening. Check your date.\n\nConfirm opening and service times for your visit.\n\n#### Arrival & access\n\nFollow the Louvre’s entrance guidance for the Pyramid, Carrousel or another authorised entrance. Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre métro is a nearby approach; the map point represents the museum complex.\n\nMusée du Louvre, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris\n\nUse the museum’s accessibility information to select an entrance and route; the site is large and some galleries may be closed.\n\n[Get directions](<https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=48.8606719971,2.3376545906>)\n\n#### Plan admission\n\nReserve a timed ticket through the museum, including when claiming eligible free admission. Check current prices, eligibility, gallery closures and entry conditions.\n\n[Plan your visit](<https://www.louvre.fr/en/visit>)\n\n05 / Where it is\n\n### Find it\nand what’s nearby.\n\nExplore around Musée du Louvre\n\n The map will load when you reach it.\n\nContinue exploring\n\n### More of Paris, around your visit.\n\n#### Continue your Paris day\n\n- [Louvre & Tuileries](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/louvre-tuileries>)\n- [Jardin des Tuileries](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/jardin-des-tuileries>)\n- [All Paris sights and neighbourhoods](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do>)\n- [Paris cafés, restaurants and food stops](<https://above.guide/paris/food-and-drink>)\n\n#### Plan your Paris visit\n\n- [Paris city guide](<https://above.guide/paris>)\n- [Choose a Paris city day](<https://above.guide/paris/city-days>)\n- [Find a Paris hotel](<https://above.guide/paris/where-to-stay>)\n- [Plan Métro and walking journeys](<https://above.guide/paris/getting-there>)\n- [Build your saved itinerary](<https://above.guide/paris/my-itinerary>)\n\n06 / Good to know\n\n### Musée du Louvre: frequently asked questions\n\n01 How much is Louvre admission for EEA and non-EEA visitors?\n\nThe listed adult rate is €22 for EEA residents or citizens and €32 for visitors who are neither. Under-eighteens enter free, as do EEA residents under twenty-six, with eligibility evidence. Admission includes permanent collections and temporary exhibitions.\n\n02 Does the Louvre open on Tuesday or late at night?\n\nThe museum closes on Tuesdays. Wednesday and Friday opening extends to 21:00; other open days close at 18:00. Last entry is one hour before closing and rooms start clearing thirty minutes before closing.\n\n03 Can I change or cancel a Louvre ticket?\n\nOrdinary tickets are for the selected date and time and cannot be modified, exchanged or refunded. A cancellation or service change made by the Louvre has separate refund rules.\n\n04 Should free-admission visitors reserve a Louvre time slot?\n\nYes. The Louvre advises all visitors, including those eligible for free entry, to book a timed ticket online and choose the corresponding free-admission category.\n\nContinue exploring\n\n### Make Paris\nyour own.\n\n[Visit the official site](<https://www.louvre.fr/en/visit>)[← All things to do](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do>)\n\nOpening hours, prices and access change. Confirm details on the official site before visiting."
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