General information

The Musée du Louvre or officially the Grand Louvre — in English, the Louvre Museum or Great Louvre, or simply the Louvre — is the largest national museum of France, the most visited museum in the world, and a historic monument. It is a central landmark of Paris, located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (neighbourhood). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet).

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Location and access

The museum lies in the centre of Paris on the Right Bank. The neighborhood, known as the 1st arrondissement, is home to the destroyed Palais des Tuileries. The adjacent Tuileries Gardens, created in 1564 by Catherine de Medici, was designed in 1664 by André Le Nôtre. The gardens house the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, a contemporary art museum that was used to store Jewish cultural property from 1940 to 1944.Parallel to the Jeu de Paume is the Orangerie, home to the famous Waterlilly paintings by Monet.

Tickets for Musem

€9

This ticket provides full-day access to the Louvre, except for temporary exhibitions in the Hall Napoléon. It is also valid for the Musée Eugène Delacroix.

€6

(from 6 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.) This ticket provides access to the Louvre, except for temporary exhibitions in the Hall Napoléon, on Wednesday and Friday evenings.

More information about entrance fees: 

Louvre Admission fees   

How to Get there? there?

We recommend, if you like walking, to start from Champs Elysee and walk till Louvre. You can count approximately 40 minutes walking but you will experience real Paris and will enjoy different mounments on youw way.

If you prefer to save some time Metro is the best solution.

Palais-Royal-Musée du Louvre station.

Châtelet-les-Halles

Lines 21, 24, 27, 39, 48, 68, 69, 72, 81, 95