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How To Virtually Tour of Paris’ Louvre & See Every Masterpiece

If you’re an art enthusiast, the Louvre is probably at the top of your Paris or museum wish list.

As the world’s largest and most visited museum, it boasts an impressive collection of 35,000 artworks, ranging from the 6th century BC to the 19th century AD, all housed within a magnificent Renaissance palace.

However, as you might imagine, visiting the Louvre can be quite the experience.

It’s often packed with crowds, flashing cameras, selfie sticks, and people bustling around or trying to touch the art. This can make it feel a bit chaotic and overwhelming.

But there’s good news! You can now explore the Louvre from the comfort of your home, avoiding the hustle and bustle.

I’ll guide you through how to virtually visit this iconic museum and view all its must-see masterpieces. Get ready to enjoy your personal Leonardo or Michelangelo experience in peaceful solitude.

Layout of the Louvre

The Louvre is a U shape, divided into three wings: Denon, Sully, and Richelieu. Each of the wings has four floors.

The Denon Wing is home to the Louvre’s best known art work, including the world’s most famous painting, the Mona Lisa .

The Sully Wing is known for its statuary and antiquities.

The Richelieu Wing houses the lavish apartments of Napoleon III and some famed Dutch art works.

Virtual Tour of Louvre Masterpieces

Let’s take an online virtual tour of the Louvre, wing by wing.

You can see all the must see masterpieces via 360 video tours, YouTube videos, or online tours on the Louvre Website itself. For a lengthy overall YouTube tour of the Louvre, click here .

The Denon Wing

The Denon Wing is the most visited part of the Louvre. It boasts the fabulously ornate Apollo Gallery, with high arches and frescoed ceilings.

It’s a shrine to Sun King Louis XIV. The paintings were begun by Charles Le Brun and completed by Eugene Delacroix.

1. French Paintings in the Denon Wing

The Denon Wing is most renowned for its iconic French paintings from the Neoclassical and Romantic periods of art history. The must see French masterpieces include:

• Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
• Jacques-Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon
• Theodore Gericault, Raft of the Medusa
• Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Grand Odalisque

You can take a virtual tour of the recently restored Apollo Gallery on the Louvre’s website here . You can learn about the Coronation of Napoleon from this Louvre YouTuber .

You can take a virtual video tour of the world’s most famous French painting, Liberty Leading the People here . And learn about the Grand Odalisque here .

Via my blog, you can also explore the Louvre’s underrated masterpieces in the Denon Wing.

I also have a guide to what I think is the best painting in the Louvre , Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa , a then-scandalous painting based on a true story.

2. Italian Paintings in the Denon Wing

The Denon Wing also boasts treasures from the Italian Renaissance.

This is where you’ll find works by Sandro Botticelli , Leonardo da Vinci , Raphael , and Titian. The must see masterpieces include:

• Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa
• Leonardo Da Vinci, The Virgin and Child With St. Anne
• Titian, Pastoral Concert
• Raphael, Portrait of Baldasarre Castiglione
• Paolo Veronese, The Wedding Feast at Cana

You can take a virtual 360 tour of the Grand Gallery, which houses much of the Louvre’s Italian art.

If you’re a Mona Lisa fan, the Louvre is offering the museum’s first virtual reality experience , which brings to life the story of the enigmatic portrait. You can also take a virtual tour of the Mona Lisa here , with Smarthistory, an artsy YouTube channel.

In the Louvre’s busiest room, the Mona Lisa stares across at Veronese’s massive Wedding Feast at Cana . You can take a virtual tour and get the full scoop on the Louvre’s largest painting here .

You can virtually tour Raphael’s paintings, including Baldasarre , on Google Arts & Culture . Learn about Titian’s Pastoral Concert , which inspired Edouard Monet’s groundbreaking painting Luncheon on the Grass , here .

READ : 3 Day Impressionism Tour of Paris

3. Sculptures in the Denon Wing

If you prefer sculpture to painting, the Denon Wing has one of the world’s most magnificent sculptures — the Winged Victory of Samothrac e.

It also has a room on the ground dedicated to Italian sculpture, the Michelangelo Gallery. It’s one of my favorites spots in the Louvre.

It’s home to Michelangelo’s Dying Slave and Rebellious Slave , from 1513-15. These sculptures seem to struggle to escape the marble.

They were originally intended for the Tomb of Pope Julius II in Rome. But Michelangelo got distracted with the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and could never finish the tomb.

READ : Masterpieces of the Vatican

You can also find Antonio Canova’s incredibly romantic Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss . It’s considered Canova’s master work.

You can take a virtual tour of Michelangelo’s Slaves here , a virtual tour of Canova’s work on Google Arts & Culture , and a virtual tour of Canova’s Psyche here . You can take a virtual 360 tour of the Winged Victory here .

2. The Sully Wing

In the Sully Wing, you’ll find some of the world’s most beautiful sculptures, antiquities, and the remains of the Medieval Louvre.

One of the Louvre’s greatest ladies, a Hellenistic masterpiece, is here — the Venus de Milo . Even without arms, Venus de Milo is considered the classical epitome of female beauty.

You can also see another masterwork, Sleeping Hermaphrodite , a mythological merger of a male and female body. The ancient sculpture was discovered in Rome near the Baths of Diocletian.

Cardinal Scipione Borghese commissioned the Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini to carve the mattress in 1619. He later sold the piece to the French when he was strapped for cash.

READ : The Bernini Trail in Rome

The Egyptian Antiquities are a well loved highlight of the Sully Wing. The collection features the 12 ton Great Sphinx of Tanis, model ships, ancient sculptures, a massive statue of Ramses II, and a sarcophagus room.

The medieval Louvre is also a fascinating place. Originally, the Louvre was a 12th century fortress built by King Philippe Auguste.

The lower levels are all that remain. Archeologists discovered and excavated the underground medieval remains during the construction of I.M. Pei’s pyramid in 1983-85.

You can take a virtual tour of all the Louvre’s Roman Antiquities here , the Venus de Milo here , and the Sleeping Hermaphrodite here . You can take a virtual tour of the famed Egyptian Antiquities here and walk around the Medieval Louvre here .

3. The Richelieu Wing

In Richelieu Wing, you can admire the Louvre’s Mesopotamian Antiquities, Napoleon III’s Second Empire rooms, sculptures, and some amazing Dutch masterpieces.

The Richelieu Wing boasts the spectacular Cour Marly, a spacious glass roofed courtyard.

It’s stuffed with 17th and 18th marble and white stone sculptures, many commissioned by Sun King Louis XIV and Louis XV. There’s also a magnificent Fountain of Diana, dating from 1550.

Perhaps the most famous part of the Richelieu Wing is the Napoleon III apartments. They were built between 1852-57 to accommodate visiting dignitaries. They’re sumptuous.

Crystal chandeliers glitter, gilded furniture gleams, and the ceilings sport beautiful frescos — all set amid red velvet and red drapery. The Rococo state dining room could seat almost 100 people.

You can virtually tour the Cour Puget here and the Cour Marly here . You can take a virtual tour of Napoleon’s Apartments here .

The Richelieu Wing is also home to some unmissable Dutch old master paintings, including:

• Johannes Vermeer, The Lacemaker
• Johannes Vermeer, The Astronomer
• Rembrandt, Bathsheba at Her Bath.
• Hieronymous Bosch, Ship of Fools
• Georges de la Tour, The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds

From the Louvre’s website, you can see and get an education on The Lacemaker here , Bathsheba here , Ship of Fools here , and The Cheat here .

If you’re a Beyonce fan, her recent music video featured pieces from the Louvre. Now, you can follow the Beyonce Louvre Trail on the Louvre website.

The Louvre is also featuring an Artwork of the Day . If you’re interested in the history of the Louvre, here’s my guide .

Tickets For The Louvre

Naturally, if you decide to visit the Louvre in person, it’s essential to p re-book a skip the line ticket . If you take your art seriously, you may want to  book a guided tour .

I hope you’ve enjoyed my guide to taking a virtual tour of the Louvre. You may enjoy these other Paris travel guides:

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• Hidden gems in Paris
• Guide to the Latin Quarter
• Guide to Montmartre
• Best museums in Paris
• Monet guide to Paris
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• Tourist traps to skip in Paris
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Not Heading To Paris This Summer? The Louvre Has Digitized 482,000 Artworks

The Apollon Gallery at the Louvre museum in Paris on Jan. 14, 2020. Stephanie de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

The Apollon Gallery at the Louvre museum in Paris on Jan. 14, 2020.

One of the world's most massive museums has announced an encompassing digitization of its vast collection.

"The Louvre is dusting off its treasures, even the least-known," said Jean-Luc Martinez, President-Director of the Musée du Louvre, in a statement on Friday . "For the first time, anyone can access the entire collection of works from a computer or smartphone for free, whether they are on display in the museum, on loan, even long-term, or in storage."

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Some of this is hyperbole. The entire collection is so huge, no one even knows how big it is. The Louvre's official release estimates about 482,000 works have been digitized in its collections database , representing about three quarters of the entire archive. (The museum's recently revamped homepage is designed for more casual visitors, especially those on cellphones, with translations in Spanish, English and Chinese.)

"It's just overwhelming," says Andrew McClellan, a Tufts University professor and author of Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics and the Origins of the Modern Museum . The strategy of putting nearly everything online is in keeping with the Enlightenment ideals that shaped the museum after the French Revolution, he says: "collecting the world's knowledge together under one roof, and then making it available for researchers and the general public."

Major institutions have been digitizing their collections for many years, but the Louvre's online archives required especially exhaustive labor. Every image, according to the museum, is accompanied with scientific data: "title, artist, inventory number, dimensions, materials and techniques, date and place of production, object history, current location and bibliography. ... These documentary entries, drawn up by museum curators and researchers, come from two museum collection databases, and are updated on a daily basis."

Given the expense of running those databases, McClellan and other observers have wondered whether the Louvre may find ways to monetize some of these images, and whether the online collection will affect real-life attendance. ( " I am sure that this digital content is going to further inspire people to come to the Louvre to discover the collections in person," the museum's director said in his statement.)

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It's also unclear how many of the online images may be of sacred objects, from countries other than France, and not meant to be casually viewed. The digital catalog includes items that may have been plundered — by Nazis or colonial forces — in a separate album titled "MNR" works , which stands for Musées Nationaux Récupération, or National Museums Recovery.

"This has to be coming up against these questions around restitution and repatriation and thinking about what the digitization of cultural heritage means within a context that is contested," observes Suse Anderson, a professor of Museum Studies at George Washington University , who studies the impact of digital technology on museums. She's generally impressed, she says, by the Louvre's online expansion, especially since it steers visitors beyond the obvious marquee works of art such as the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo .

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"I'm a serendipitous browser," she says. "I'm not the person seeking the hero works. They're so easy to find. I'm the person who wants to find the unexpected."

Like the actual museum, the Louvre's online collection provides pathways towards new discoveries, Anderson says. "It helps you see things you might not otherwise. It helps you find surprises. And that's where I think you often get the connection to your own life, is when you find something that resonates, that isn't the thing you went looking for."

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Visiting the Louvre in 2024: Things to See, Best Walking Route & eBook

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The Louvre is the largest art museum in the world and one of the top attractions in Paris. Planning a visit to the Louvre may sound complicated. With its massive size, long list of art exhibits, and tales of long lines, you may be wondering how to visit the Louvre and actually enjoy your visit.

We have visited the Louvre three times in recent years. From our multiple experiences, we created this guide to help you have the best experience at the Louvre.

In this guide, we will be your virtual tour guide, navigating you through the Louvre’s maze of rooms to its most important masterpieces. We cover the best way to visit the Louvre, including the top things to see, where to go to see the most famous works of art, the best time of day to plan your visit, and whether or not it is worth it to take a tour.

Tim and I also came up with a walking route through the Louvre that quickly and efficiently takes you to the must-see sights. On this Louvre treasure hunt, you’ll get to see famous sculptures carved by Michelangelo, ancient artifacts from Egypt and Mesopotamia, paintings by famous artists, and of course, the Mona Lisa.

Let’s get started.

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Interesting Facts about the Louvre

The Louvre is the largest art museum in the world. In 2023, it was the world’s most visited museum (with the Vatican Museums taking the #2 spot), with 8.9 million visitors.

With that being said, the Louvre draws enormous crowds. Many people come here for a glimpse of Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa , but several other art pieces, such as Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace, are also extremely popular.

Long before the Louvre became an art museum, it was a fortification. The remnants of these fortifications, which date back to the 12th century, can be seen in the Medieval Louvre, in the crypt below the rooms of the museum. The Medieval Louvre is one of the sights on our walking tour.

In the 14th century, Charles V converted the fortifications into his residence. In 1546, Francis I began to design the residence in a Renaissance style and over the next 100+ years, other French monarchs added wings and rooms onto the Louvre. The expansion of the Louvre took a pause in the 1670’s when Louis XIV redirected his budget to the Palace of Versailles.

The Louvre became a public museum on August 10, 1793, during the French Revolution. At the time, just over 500 works of art were on display.

Since the 18th century, the Louvre has undergone several more renovations and thousands of works of art added to its collection.

The Louvre contains over 600,000 works of art, of which roughly 35,000 are on display. These works of art span almost 10,000 years. The exhibition area inside of the Louvre is an incredible 73,000 square meters (783,000 square feet). It would take weeks to see every piece of art on display.

In 1988, the glass pyramid designed by I. M. Pei was added to the Louvre. This is now the main entrance into the museum.

So, a visit to the Louvre is more than just gazing at a few famous works of art. It also has a long, rich historical background and was once the palace of French Kings.

The Victory of Samothrace

Quick Facts about the Louvre

Here are a few essential things to know when planning your visit to the Louvre.

OPENING HOURS: 9 am to 6 pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday; 9 am to 9:45 pm on Friday; CLOSED ON TUESDAY; last entry one hour before closing

CLOSED: January 1, May 1, December 25

COST: €22 online

FREE ADMISSION: First Friday of the month after 6 pm, with the exception of July and August. Free admission for people under 18 and those 18 to 25 years old who are residents of the European Economic Area.

ROOM CLOSURES: All rooms are not open every day of the week. For example, Napoleon’s Apartments are not open every day of the week. Before your visit, check the official website for room closures on the day you plan to visit, to see if you need to adjust your plans or visit on a different day.

METRO: Palais Royal – Musee du Louvre (lines 1 and 7) and Pyramides (line 14)

How to Skip the Ticket Line at the Louvre

The first important thing to know is how to ‘skip the line’ at the Louvre. Waiting an hour in the hot sun to purchase tickets for the Louvre is probably not how you plan to spend your precious time in Paris.

WHAT DOES ‘SKIP-THE-LINE’ MEAN? A skip-the-line ticket is a pre-purchased ticket that allows you to skip the ticket line. You will still have to wait in a security line to enter the Louvre, and this can take a few minutes to up to 30 minutes, according to the official website.

If you do not have a ticket in advance, you will have to wait in the ticket line. Off season, this wait could be just a few minutes. In July or August, this wait can range from 1 to 3 hours, depending on the time of day.

#1 Purchase Your Ticket Online in Advance

Before your visit to Paris, visit the official website to purchase your ticket in advance. These tickets cost €22.

It’s best to do this as far in advance as possible. If your visit is during peak season (July, August, and holidays), book your tickets at least one month in advance.

If tickets are sold out on the official website, you can purchase them on GetYourGuide.

For the best experience in the Louvre, book the first time slot of the day.

PRO TRAVEL TIP: There are a limited number of tickets sold onsite per day. These can sell out before the day is over, so if you do not purchase a ticket in advance, you risk onsite tickets selling out before you arrive at the Louvre. This is another good reason why you should purchase your ticket online in advance.

#2 Use a Museum Pass

The Louvre is included on the Museum Pass. However, you must book your time slot in advance, which you will do on the official website.

#3 Take a Tour

There are guided tours of the Louvre that includes your ticket to skip the line. This 2-hour small group tour gets rave reviews.

Entrances into the Louvre

There is more than one entrance into the Louvre. The entrance you use depends on whether or not you have a ticket and your ticket/tour type.

Map of the Louvre entrances (in black and white) and the three wings of the Louvre museum (in blue and white). Map adapted from Google.

The Pyramid

The Pyramid is the main entrance into the Louvre. At the Pyramid, there are four different lines:

Orange Line: Visitors without tickets Green Line: Visitors with a ticket or the Paris Museum Pass Blue Line: Priority Access for disabled visitors and staff members Yellow Line: Visitors with Membership Cards

The Pyramid entrance | How to visit the Louvre

At this entrance, you will line up in the appropriate line, just outside of the Pyramid. A staff member will check if you have a ticket if you are in the green line.

Once you enter the Pyramid, you will go through airport style security and then descend into the Louvre on an escalator or steps. From this lower level, you will choose to enter the museum at either the Sully Wing, Denon Wing, or Richelieu Wing (more on this later). Your ticket will be scanned at one of these three entrances.

On our most recent visit, we entered at the Pyramid, following the instructions on our Louvre ticket. We had a 9 am entry slot. We got in line at 8:40 am and had a 5-minute wait to enter the Louvre once it opened. Our visit was September 7, 2023.

PRO TRAVEL TIP: If you do not have a ticket into the Louvre, the only entrance you can use is the Pyramid entrance. We did not see a ticket office at the Galerie du Carrousel entrance and were told by a staff member that tickets are not for sale at the Porte des Lions entrance.

Galerie du Carrousel

You can also enter the Louvre from an underground shopping mall, called the Galerie du Carrousel. This small underground mall is located underneath the inverted pyramid at Place du Carrousel and there are several ways to get here.

#1. At 99 Rue de Rivoli, take the escalator down to Galerie du Carrousel.

#2. On either side of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel are steps leading underground into the Galerie du Carrousel.

#3. From the Palais Royal – Musee du Louvre metro station, follow signs to Galerie du Carrousel to stay underground and walk to the Louvre entrance.

All of these entrances take you underground to the inverted pyramid and an entrance into the Louvre.

Once you reach the inverted pyramid, you can enter the Louvre through the airport style security line and it is a 5-minute walk to the main floor of the museum, the room below the pyramid. You must have a ticket as there is no ticket window at the Galerie du Carrousel entrance into the Louvre.

PRO TRAVEL TIP: When you exit the Louvre, the only exit is through Galerie du Carrousel. In my opinion, the Pyramid is most interesting way to enter the Louvre, since seeing the Pyramid with the museum buildings in the background is one of Paris’ most iconic views. If you enter via Galerie du Carrousel, you will miss this view, unless you walk to pyramid after touring the museum.

Porte des Lions

The Porte des Lions entrance is located on Quai Francois Mitterand. It is closed on Friday. This entrance is reserved for visitors who have a ticket. Since this entrance is located far from the Pyramid, it has a much shorter line.

Richelieu Passage

This entrance is reserved for groups and visitors with membership cards.

The Layout of the Louvre

Now that made it inside, where do you go?

PRO TRAVEL TIP: You can download a copy of the Louvre map from the official website. The Louvre also has an interactive map, which is useful for planning out what you want to see ahead of time. We used these to navigate through the Louvre, using our smartphones.

Reception Hall

Once you enter the Louvre from the Pyramid or Galerie du Carrousel, you will be standing on the main floor, just under the Pyramid. From this floor, there are three entrances, one to each wing of the Louvre: Denon, Sully, and Richelieu. You will pick one of these entrances, depending on what you plan to see first, and it is at one of these entrances where your ticket will be scanned.

The main floor (reception hall) of the Louvre

If you only have time for one wing in the Louvre, this is the one we recommend. The Denon Wing contains many of the top sights in the Louvre, including the Mona Lisa, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, French and Italian paintings, the Apollo Gallery, and Roman and Greek Antiquities.

The Sully Wing contains the oldest artifacts in the Louvre. It is here that you can walk through the Medieval Louvre, see Egyptian antiquities dating back to 4,000 BC, near Eastern antiquities from 7,000 BC, and see Venus de Milo.

Richelieu Wing

In the Richelieu Wing, tour Napoleon III’s apartments, see paintings from Northern Europe, see antiquities from Iran and Mesopotamia, including the Code of Hammurabi, and take a break at Angelina’s for coffee, hot chocolate, and pastries.

Best Time to Visit the Louvre

The best time of the day to visit the Louvre is first thing in the morning, two to three hours before closing, and on Friday nights, when the Louvre does not close until 9:45 pm.

The Louvre is closed on Tuesdays . Monday and Wednesday can be busy, since these fall before and after the Tuesday closure. Weekends and holidays can also be very busy. Thursday tends to be the least crowded day of the week.

Best Things to See in the Louvre

With over 35,000 works of art on display, spread out across the largest museum in the world, how do you narrow down what to see?

Before our most recent visit to the Louvre, we spent a lot of time researching the top art pieces and historical artifacts in the Louvre. We came up with a list of 20 things to see in the Louvre. This list is perfect for those who want to see the highlights of the Louvre, located throughout its wings and multiple floors, without spending all day in the Louvre.

Below is a list of the top things to see in the Louvre and their location. All of these are included in our walking tour below.

• Mona Lisa – Room 711 – Denon Wing
• Venus de Milo – Room 346 – Sully Wing
• Winged Victory of Samothrace – Room 703 – Denon Wing
• The Grande Galerie – Room 710 – Denon Wing
• Apollo Galerie – Room 705 – Denon Wing
• Wedding Feast of Cana  – Room 711 – Denon Wing
• The Caryatids – Room 348 – Sully wing
• The Raft of Medusa – Room 700 – Denon Wing
• The Rebellious Slave and the Dying Slave by Michelangelo – Room 403 – Denon Wing
• Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss – Room 403 – Denon Wing
• Sleeping Hermaphrodite – Room 348 – Sully Wing
• Liberty Leading the People – Room 702 – Denon Wing
• The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon – Room 702 – Denon Wing
• Medieval Louvre – lower level of the Sully Wing
• The Great Sphinx of Tanis – Room 338 – Sully Wing
• Egyptian Antiquities – Multiple rooms in the Sully Wing
• The Code of Hammurabi – Room 227 – Richelieu Wing
• Lamassus of Khorsabad Palace – Room 229 – Richelieu Wing
• Napoleon III’s Apartments – Level 1 – Richelieu Wing
• The Cour Puget – Room 105 – Richelieu Wing

Walking Tour of the Louvre

Tim and I came up with a walking tour that takes you to the highlights of the Louvre, quickly and efficiently. Think of it as a treasure hunt through the Louvre.

If you want to visit the Louvre the cheapest way possible, and have guidance on the best things to see, this is how to do it. Purchase your ticket online in advance and we’ll take you through the Louvre, without needing to pay extra for a guide.

About this Louvre Walking Tour

Our walking tour starts with the most famous art pieces in the Louvre, so if you prefer a quick visit to the Louvre, just do Part 1 of our tour. For those who want to go deeper into the Louvre, follow our walking tour to the very end.

This walking tour can be done any time of the day, but it works best first thing in the morning. With a 9 am entry and our walking route, you get to see a few art pieces and tour a few remarkable rooms before they are filled with people. So, for the best experience, book your Louvre tickets in advance for a 9 am time slot. To get in front of the crowds, arrive a little early (we got in line at 8:40 am).

PRO TRAVEL TIP: The official Louvre website also has several walking tours through the Louvre, depending on your interests and available time. I also recommend checking which rooms will be open on the day of your visit, because there could be some closures. On the day we did this, Napoleon III’s apartments and the North European paintings were closed.

Louvre Walking Tour

If you follow the entire walking tour, it will take between 3 hours and 5 hours. To do it in 3 hours, you have to start at 9 am, when crowds are very light, and move very fast. Most people will do this in 4 to 5 hours.

This tour starts with the essential artworks and then goes deeper into the Louvre. Since it is a half day tour, you still are only visiting the highlights. You can further extend this tour, by spending more time in various rooms and taking detours along the way.

We provide detailed walking directions, but it also helps to download a map of the Louvre on your phone before your visit.

You can also access an interactive map on the official website that is very useful for identifying room numbers and locations of artworks.

Do you want a printer friendly version of this walking tour? How about an eBook version that can be downloaded onto your computer or mobile device?

Our Louvre Walking Tour eBook is a self-guided walking tour of the Louvre that will take you to the museum’s most important masterpieces. This guide covers how to purchase tickets, the different entrances, helps you navigate through the Louvre’s maze of rooms, and provides helpful tips for having the best experience.  It is a 15-page document that you can download to take with you or print at home.

Click here to purchase the eBook on Etsy.com.

Part 1: Must-See Sights in the Louvre

Time: 1 to 1.5 hours

For those who just want to visit a few key pieces of art, follow Part 1 of our walking tour. Things you will see include:

The Caryatids

Venus de Milo

• Winged Victory of Samothrace
• Grande Galerie

Apollo Gallery

From the main reception floor (the large room under the pyramid), take the escalator/steps up to the Sully Wing. This entrance is the middle of the three entrances into the wings of the Louvre. It looks like this (look for the word “Expositions”):

If you are doing this walking tour at opening time, you’ll see 95% of people heading directly to the Denon Wing with the goal of seeing the Mona Lisa first. I know it’s tempting, but she’ll still be there in about fifteen minutes. Crowds take a while to gather around her, so there is no rush to get to the Mona Lisa right away. By following our route, you get to see a few amazing rooms and possibly have them all to yourself (we did).

After you show your ticket, walk straight down the long hallway. Once you reach the entrance to the Pavilion de l’Horloge, take the stairs up to level 1 (this is a series of several staircases; follow signs for 1et etage, Antiquities grecques et romaines). At the top of these stairs, turn right into the double wooden doors.

You are now standing in room 348 of the Sully Wing, the Salle des Cariatides. Turn around to see the Caryatids, which are four female sculptures that serve as columns and support the musician’s gallery. These were created in 1550 by Jean Goujon. They were inspired by the Caryatids on the Erechtheion on the Acropolis in Athens.

Salle des Cariatides

Walk through the room to the far end. In the corner to the left is Sleeping Hermaphrodite. This ancient Roman sculpture was discovered in the Baths of Diocletian. Gian Lorenzo Bernini sculpted the mattress. The sculpture was first on display in the Borghese Gallery in Rome and later moved to the Louvre when it was sold to the French.

Sleeping Hermaphrodite

Walk around the right side of the fireplace and exit the room. Walk between the red pillars for a view of Venus de Milo.

This famous ancient Greek sculpture was carved during the Hellenistic period. It depicts Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. It was discovered on the island of Milos, Greece, in 1820, bought by Louis XVIII, and installed in the Louvre.

The Winged Victory of Samothrace

Turn around and walk through the red pillars. Turn left just past the red pillars, walk straight through the rotunda, and walk up the stairs. In front of you is the Winged Victory of Samothrace.

Like Venus de Milo, the Winged Victory of Samothrace is another Greek sculpture from the Hellenstic period. This statue represents the goddess Nike standing on a ship’s bow.

Winged Victory of Samothrace | How to visit the Louvre

Apollo Gallery (The Galerie d’Apollon)

Facing the front of Winged Victory, turn left and walk up a few more stairs and enter a round room (room 704). As a bonus, take a look out of the window for a beautiful view outside of the Pyramid.

Then, enter the Apollo Gallery (room 705, Denon Wing). To be in this ornate room with little to no people is an underrated experience in the Louvre. We’ve also been here with a huge crowd and it is a much different experience.

The Apollo Gallery is decorated with paintings, stuccos, and tapestries. This part of the Louvre was rebuilt by Louis XIV after a fire burned the Petite Galerie. In the center of the room are display cases containing gems and some of the Crown Diamonds.

The Grande Galerie

Walk to the far end of Apollo Gallery turn right to enter the Salon Carré (room 708). Look up at the ceiling and then continue straight into a long hallway. This is the Grande Galerie.

Adorning the walls is a large collection of paintings, some of them by Da Vinci and other famous Italian Renaissance artists. In the interest of time, we did not spend a lot of time here, but one of the most famous paintings in this room is Saint Anne, the Virgin and the Infant Jesus Playing with a Lamb by Leonardo Da Vinci.

Grande Galerie | How to visit the Louvre

You have seen quite a few works of art in a short period of time. By this point, you are about 15 to 20 minutes into this tour, a little longer or shorter, depending on how long you linger at each artwork.

Now it is time to see the Louvre’s most famous masterpiece, the Mona Lisa.

Continue walking through the Grande Galerie. Pass the white marble columns and then make the next right into the room with Mona Lisa (room 711). There will be a sign in the Grande Galerie indicating the turn for the Mona Lisa. When you walk into the room the Mona Lisa will be straight ahead in the middle of the room.

If you are here in the morning, the crowd should be small and it only takes a minute or so to work your way to the front for a photo or selfie with the Mona Lisa. In my opinion, it’s worth having the small crowd here, rather than backtracking to the Apollo Gallery and Salle des Cariatides.

The Mona Lisa is facing a giant painting called The Wedding Feast at Cana. So, after seeing the Mona Lisa turn around to see this other masterpiece. This massive painting was created by Paolo Veronese in 1563. It depicts the story where Jesus converted water into wine during the Wedding at Cana.

Wedding Feast at Cana

Traffic through 711 is one-way. To exit the room, walk past the Mona Lisa and enter room 701.

This large room contains a souvenir shop and a beautifully painted ceiling. It’s worth a quick photo.

Napoleon’s Consecration

From room 701, turn right and enter room 702. You know you are in the correct room if you can see Winged Victory through the doorway on the far end of this room.

Halfway down the wall on the left is the largest painting in the room. This painting, which has the very long official name of the Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on 2 Dec 1804, was painted by Jacques-Louis David.

Historically, Napoleon crowned himself. In this painting, David portrays Napoleon crowning Josephine with the Pope blessing the Empress.

Napoleon’s Consecration

Raft of Medusa & Liberty Leading the People

Now back track to the room with the gift shop (701) and continue straight through that room and enter another long room (700).

About halfway on the left is The Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault, an icon of French Romanticism.

Raft of Medusa

In the same room is Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix. This painting commemorates the July Revolution of 1830 which toppled King Charles X.

Liberty Leading the People

Café Molien

Exit the far end of this room and you will come upon a cafe on the right, Café Molien. The Cafe does not open until 10:15 am. We made it here at 9:40 am but we moved very quickly through the Louvre. If it is open, you have the option to take a break, have a coffee or a snack, and enjoy the view. This café has an open terrace with a great view of the Pyramid (we returned to the café later in the day to take the photo below).

The view from Cafe Molien | How to visit the Louvre

Michelangelo’s Slaves

Next to the cafe, descend down the large staircase to room 403. A short distance into the room are two sculptures, the Rebellious Slave and the Dying Slave, both of which were carved by Michelangelo.

Michelangelo’s Slaves

Dying Slave

Continue to the far end of room 403 to see Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss by Antonio Canova.

Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss

Optional: Exit the Louvre

At this point you have a choice to make: continue through the Louvre or exit the Louvre. Depending how quickly you moved through the rooms of the Louvre, and whether or not you stopped at Café Molien, it has been an hour to an hour and a half.

To exit the Louvre, leave room 403, go down the steps, enter room 404, go down the spiral staircase, following signs for the exit (sortie).

Part 2: Medieval Louvre & Ancient Egypt

If you choose to continue through the Louvre, you will now travel back in time to medieval Paris and ancient Egypt.

Things you will see include:

• Greek Antiquities

Medieval Louvre

The great sphinx of tanis, egyptian antiquities, the route to medieval louvre.

To get to Medieval Louvre, it is a short walk back through the Denon Wing to the Sully Wing. Here is the route.

From room 403, walk down the steps, enter room 404, and continue straight through to room 406 (Galerie Daru). At the far end of the room, only go up a few steps (don’t go all the way up to Winged Victory) and follow the hallway to the left to go back down some steps.

Galerie Daru | How to visit the Louvre

A piece of the Parthenon in Salle de Diane

Walk through room 347 (Salle de Diane) which contains Greek antiquities and pieces of the Parthenon. Then continue through room 345 and see the crowds around Venus de Milo.

Walk until Venus de Milo is on your right and then turn left into room 348 (Salle des Cariatides). Walk through the room and out the opposite side. Turn left and then go down the stairs. At bottom of steps swing a hard right almost like a U turn and then walk straight until you enter a room with stone walls (room 133). This is the Medieval Louvre.

In the Medieval Louvre, you can see the original walls when the Louvre was used as a fortification, before it became a palace. What you are looking at are the foundations of the castle walls, before they were transformed into the Louvre we see today.

The Medieval Louvre is located on the lowest level of the Sully Wing, in a section of the palace called the Pavillon de l’Horloge.

Continue walking along the stone walls in room 133 until you reach a staircase in front of you with an archway labeled “Louvre Sully Medieval”.

Walk up the staircase to see the Great Sphinx of Tanis (room 338, the Crypte du Sphinx). This granite sphinx dates back to the 26th century BC and was discovered in the temple of Amun-Ra in Tanis, Egypt.

Great Sphinx of Tanis

Go up the staircase to the left of Sphinx. This leads you to several rooms containing the Egyptian Antiquities.

These rooms are a treasure trove of Egyptian artifacts, with hieroglyphics, sarcophagi, relief murals from ancient Egyptian temples, and statues of Egyptian gods. In these rooms are some of the oldest artifacts in the Louvre and if you have an interest in Egyptian history and mythology, it would be easy to spend a lot of time here.

This was one of our favorite parts of the Louvre.

As you weave your way through the Egyptian galleries, follow signs for “Sens de la visite.”

Keep walking through the Egyptian galleries until you enter room 324. In this room there are steps down in front of you. Take these down to Crypte d’Osiris.

Crypte d’Osiris

Walk up the stairs on the other side of the room to walk through several rooms filled with sarcophagi (rooms 322, 321, and 320).

At this point, you can continue on the walking tour of the Louvre or end your visit. To exit the Louvre, follow signs to the exit (sortie).

Part 3: The Richelieu Wing

Time: 1 to 2 hours

This final part of our walking tour takes you through a portion of the Richelieu Wing. There are a wide range of things to see here, from Napoleon’s apartments, ancient Mesopotamian artifacts, paintings by Dutch masters, and the opportunity to take a break with a sweet treat at Angelina’s.

Napoleon III’s Apartments

The code of hammurabi, lamassus of khorsabad palace.

• The Cour Puget

Terrasse Colbert & Angelina’s

From room 320, walk up the stairs to level 1 on the Sully Wing to room 632 to enter the Object d’art.

The first room you see is the royal residence of Marie Antoinette who was queen of France from 1774 to 1792.

Room from the royal residence of Marie Antoinette | How to visit the Louvre

Continue walking straight, past small rooms filled with royal furnishings and art pieces. On this walk, you will enter the Richelieu Wing.

You will eventually come to some escalators. Walk past the escalators, remaining on level 1, until you get to Terrasse Colbert on the left. At this point, you can stop here for a snack or drink at one of two places.

Terrasse Colbert has the best view. From the open terrace, you overlook the Pyramid, making this one of the best viewpoints of the Louvre. On the menu is coffee and snacks.

Terasse Colbert

Next to Terrasse Colbert is Angelina’s (also called Café Richelieu). This restaurant is famous for its hot chocolate and pastries. Their main location is on Rue de Rivoli and it’s also famous for its very long line to get a seat. However, here at the Louvre, there is a good chance you will have a much shorter wait. The view isn’t as good, since Angelina’s does not have an open terrace, but their decadent pastries are amazing. We recommend having the Richelieu, a pyramidal-shaped chocolate pastry that you can only get at their Louvre location. See their menu here.

Angelina’s

If you want to tour Napoleon III’s Apartments, the entrance is next to Angelina’s/Café Richelieu. We were unable to tour the apartments, since this was one of the sections that were closed on the day of our visit.

Napoleon’s Apartments | Alexandra Lande/shutterstock.com

Backtrack to the escalators, go down one level and make a U-turn off escalators and walk into Antiquities Orientales.

Walk through rooms 236 and 234 (in room 234, it’s worth a quick look at the Statue of Ebih-II, which dates back to 2,600 to 2,300 BC). Walk up a few steps to a landing, ignore the other staircases on this landing and turn left into room 228 and then immediately right into room 229.

This large room contains several Neo-Assyrian relief murals and the Lamassus of Khorsabad Palace. These Lamassus are creatures which have a human head, the wings of eagles, and the body of a bull or lion. They were added to doorways and passages in the palace of Khorsabad, in present day Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq. These Lamassus date back to sometime between 721 and 705 BC.

Lamassus of Khorsabad Palace | How to visit the Louvre

From room 229, walk back into room 228. Look through the windows to Cour Puget, a courtyard in the Richelieu Wing that contains sculptures from the 17th to 19th century.

From room 228, turn right into room 227. Sitting in the center of this room is the Code of Hammurabi. Created between 1755 and 1750 BC, this Babylonian legal text is written in the Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian. It was written by Hammurabi, the sixth king of the Amorite First Dynasty of Babylon, and it is a code of laws. It is famous for being the longest and best-preserved legal text from the ancient Near East.

Code of Hammurabi

Exiting the Louvre

Our tour ends with the Code of Hammurabi. However, we have instructions on how to exit the Louvre, since this massive building is a confusing maze of rooms.

Walk back to the escalators and go down one level to -1. Make a U-turn at the bottom of the escalators and down some steps. Continue straight and turn left following the sortie signs.

You are now back in the main reception hall, under the Pyramid. There are exit signs directing you out of the Louvre. You will walk down a long hallway and you will see a restaurant, cafe, and boutique shops. This hallway ends at the inverted pyramid, in Galerie du Carrousel.

From this point, you can follow the metro signs to get on the metro at the Palais Royal – Musee du Louvre station or walk up the steps to Rue de Rivoli or Jardin du Carrousel.

I hope you enjoyed our walking tour of the Louvre and if you have any comments or suggestions for future readers, please let us know in the comment section below.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much time does it take to visit the Louvre?

If you are a speed demon, it’s possible to visit a few works of art in 30 to 45 minutes. However, the Louvre is filled with treasures from around the world, not just paintings and sculptures but also artifacts from ancient Egypt, Greece, and the Near East. For those who want to see the Louvre’s famous artworks and some of these ancient artifacts, plan on spending 3 to 5 hours in the Louvre.

Is the Louvre worth it?

Absolutely. The Louvre contains some of the most famous art pieces in the world, as well as ancient treasures from Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. Plus, the building itself is an attraction, as this was once the palace for French kings before it became a museum.

What are the best things to see in the Louvre?

The three most famous artworks are the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and the Winged Victory of Samothrace. Other notable works of art include the Rebellious Slave and the Dying Slave by Michelangelo, the Great Sphinx of Tanis and Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss as well as ancient artifacts such as the Code of Hammurabi and the Lammasus of Khorsabad Palace.

Do you need to take a tour of the Louvre?

You do not need to take a tour of the Louvre. The cheapest way to visit the Louvre is to purchase your ticket online in advance on the official website and tour the Louvre independently. We have a free walking tour that takes you to the highlights. There is also an audio guide available for rent at the Louvre. However, there are many tours offered of the Louvre, if you prefer to visit the Louvre with an experienced guide.

Tours of the Louvre

If you still prefer to take a tour of the Louvre with an experience guide, here are several highly rated tours.

If you have any questions about how to visit the Louvre or our walking tour of the Louvre, let us know in the comment section below.

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Is the Louvre completely wheelchair friendly? Do EU passport holders enter free?

Here is the page on the official Louvre website about accessibility and wheelchair access. Everyone needs a paid ticket to visit the Louvre, unless you are under 18, or 18 to 25 years old and a resident of the European Economic Area. Cheers, Julie

We visited the Louvre today for the first time and used this tour. We did all of the parts of the tour, plus added in a few galleries along the way. This was wonderful- I’m so glad I found your blog as it made it so easy for us to navigate! Thank you for helping us have a great visit to the Louvre and I highly recommend this tour!

2 suggestions: there is a sentence in the Code of Hammurabi tour paragraph that reads “from room 229, turn right into room 227”. It should say “from room 228” instead of 229.

The other suggestion that would be very helpful to first time visitors is to identify restroom stops throughout the tour. I was surprised at how few and far between the restrooms were, and traveling with a small child we had to go searching more than once and walk a long ways.

Thank you once again so much! So well written and easy to follow. It helped us not miss a thing on our wish list of sights.

Thank you so much for taking the time to write in with your experience and your suggestions! Have a great time on the rest of your visit to Paris! Cheers, Julie

Thank you; we will be visiting Louvre in June and your article is helpful; I read it twice already considering we only have 4 hours to see the museum. Thanks again!

You’re welcome!

This was EXACTLY what I was looking for. The internet is surprisingly devoid of any in-depth itineraries for the Louvre or the Vatican Museums.

It is a fool’s errand to go to either without some sort of game plan – you would wander for 3 or 4 hours and realize that you hadn’t made a dent into the contents of the museum.

I bought a detailed guide of the Vatican Museums, and am trying to slog my way through it to come up with some sort of logical itinerary. In the Vatican Museums, the crowd flow hinders you enough that you are probably going to see only what your portion of the crowds wanders by, unfortunately.

Thank you so much for posting this itinerary. I’m planning on one full day at the Louvre, wandering until my legs drop off, then a half day several days later to see whatever I missed.

You’re welcome! We’ve gotten a bunch of emails from people loving this guide. I hope you have a fantastic time in the Louvre! Cheers, Julie

Are you familiar with the guided tour available from the Louvre? It’s called “Welcome to the Louvre”.

I am not familiar with that particular tour.

Thank you so much for this, it was incredibly helpful and clear. It felt like a fun treasure hunt – with great directions and descriptions – and made our experience at the Louvre wonderful. It also took the pressure off and helped us see all the highlights while enjoying our way through it all.

Hello Carla. Thanks for writing in! I’m glad you had a nice time in the Louvre! Cheers, Julie

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You Can Now Explore the Louvre’s Entire Collection Online

A new digital database features 480,000 works from the Paris museum’s holdings

Nora McGreevy

Correspondent

When cultural institutions around the world were forced to shutter last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic , even the most popular art museum in the world felt the effects. The Louvre , home to such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa , welcomed just 2.7 million visitors in 2020—a 72 percent drop from 2019, when 9.6 million people flocked to the Paris museum.

But even as physical museums remained closed, art enthusiasts continued to seek inspiration in new ways : In that same pandemic year, 21 million people visited the Louvre’s website, according to a statement .

Thanks to a major website redesign and a new online collection database, browsing the historic museum’s holdings from home is easier than ever, reports Alaa Elassar for CNN . For the first time ever, the Louvre’s entire art collection is available to search online. The updated catalogue boasts more than 480,000 entries, from rare items stowed away in storage to the iconic Venus de Milo and Winged Victory of Samothrace . (Though the digital database is free to browse, offerings are not open access , meaning users cannot directly download, share or reuse the images.)

“Today, the Louvre is dusting off its treasures, even the least-known,” says the museum’s president, Jean-Luc Martinez, in the statement. “… [A]nyone can access the entire collection of works from a computer or smartphone for free, whether they are on display in the museum, on loan, even long-term, or in storage.”

Martinez adds, “The Louvre’s stunning cultural heritage is all now just a click away.”

Viewers can also click through an interactive map of the museum, virtually walking through the cavernous halls of the Renaissance castle or the sleek steel-and-glass pyramid designed by American architect I.M. Pei in 1989.

Previously, the public only had access to about 30,000 listings of works in the Louvre’s collections, reports Vincent Noce for the Art Newspaper . Per France24 , more than three-quarters of the entries in the Louvre’s online collection contain images and label information. The museum plans to continue to expand and improve the database in the coming months.

The archive also includes the collections of the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix , which is run by the Louvre, and the nearby Tuileries Garden , as well as a number of Nazi-looted artworks that are in the process of being returned to their original owners’ families.

According to the new online catalogue , about 61,000 works stolen by the Nazis were retrieved from Germany and brought back to France after World War II. Of these works, 45,000 have been returned to their rightful owners. A number of others were sold by the French state. The remaining 2,143 unclaimed works were categorized as National Museum Recovery (MNR) and entrusted to French cultural institutions, including the Louvre, for safekeeping.

Despite the Louvre’s involvement in repatriation efforts, lingering concerns remain that Nazi-looted art may have made its way into the Louvre’s permanent collections during the war. Since hiring curator Emmanuelle Polack to lead a wartime provenance research project in January 2020, the Louvre has checked nearly two-thirds of the 13,943 works it acquired between 1933 and 1945, Martinez tells the Art Newspaper .

In the future, the museum plans to debut the findings of this research project on its website. The director notes that he has instructed curators to conduct a similar investigation of the thousands of artworks in the Louvre’s collections that hail from countries formerly under French control, such as Algeria, Tunisia, Syria and Lebanon.

The goal of this long-term project, he says, will be to identify which items in the Louvre’s encyclopedic collections were obtained through looting or colonial violence.

“Our collections are mostly archaeological and come from digs shared with the countries of origin,” Martinez tells the Art Newspaper , adding that the museum often obtained new archives through “bilateral” legal agreements.

At the same time, Martinez adds, “[M]useums like the Louvre served imperial ambitions and we have to deal with this history.”

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Nora McGreevy is a former daily correspondent for Smithsonian . She is also a freelance journalist based in Chicago whose work has appeared in Wired , Washingtonian , the Boston Globe , South Bend Tribune , the New York Times and more.

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18 Free Online Museum Tours To Enjoy Without Leaving Your Couch

Culture up your day without leaving the comfort of your home with these free online museum tours from around the world.

As the history of museums is entering its digital age, more and more art institutions are choosing to expand their online services. Most large museums today offer online access to their collections. Other online resources such as videos, podcasts, games, etc, are also quite common. Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, virtual tours of museums have become a popular substitute for physically visiting museum exhibitions. As a result, free online museum tours are becoming more and more available to the international audience.

From Paris to Seoul, and from Moscow to Mexico City, this is our list of 18 free online museum tours. For additional online art experiences, don’t forget to check our 9 Amazing Online Art Resources To Enjoy At Home .

Free Online Museum Tours

1. the louvre museum, france.

The Louvre’s Petite Gallerie offers virtual tours in the famous museum of Paris. This is the best way to explore the architecture, the exhibits, and the history of France’s leading museum without leaving the comfort of your home.

You can also watch 800 Years of History , a short documentary on the history of the museum, or a series of YouTube videos offering guided tours. In addition, the Louvre offers a VR experience of the Mona Lisa as well as a closer look at its masterpieces through multiple audiovisual supplements.

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See works by famous Impressionist and Expressionist artists like Monet , Renoir , Van Gogh , Degas , Claudel and so many more with a virtual visit at Paris’ Musée d’Orsay.

Worth exploring is also the research program The digital worlds of Orsay, where historian Pierre Singaravélou offers a new text three times a week on famous or unknown works from the museum’s collection.

3. Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is one of the leading museums in Europe offering a rich variety of online resources . At the center of its home services, lies the Rijkstudio , which allows you to dive into the museum’s vast collection of 707,967 works of art.

Take a free online tour of the museum through Google’s Art and Culture project. Worth exploring is also the Discover Masterpieces virtual tour which takes you through the most prized exhibits of the Dutch museum.

Among the museum’s most famous artworks is without a doubt Rembrandt’s Night Watch.  The Rijksmuseum offers a virtual tour explaining all the details you need to know about the famous painting.

You can also play Key Challenges , an interactive game set in the museum’s main exhibition.

Rijksmuseum from Home is a series of videos where museum employees share their favorite objects from the collection.

If you are still not satisfied with these tours and resources, then have a look at “10 ways to visit Rijksmuseum without leaving home.”

4. Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands

One of Europe’s most popular attractions, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is a true monument to the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh . Take a full virtual tour of the museum’s exhibition and immerse yourself in the post-impressionist art of Van Gogh.

If you are a fan of the Dutch painter, you should also check out Van Gogh Worldwide , the most complete resource of Van Gogh paintings and archival material.

5. Vatican Museums, Vatican

The Vatican Museums consist of 54 galleries or sale. These received 6 million visitors in 2019 making the Vatican Museums the third largest museum in the world.

You can explore the galleries at the Vatican Museums website . The institution also offers 360 virtual tours of some of its most iconic monuments like the Sistine Chapel and Raphael’s Rooms with painted decoration by Michelangelo and Raphael respectively.

6. Uffizi Galleries, Italy

Florence’s leading museum that started as the collection of the Medici family in the Renaissance , is home to some of the most famous artworks in the world.

If you visit the museum’s website you will be able to explore its online collections and take a free virtual tour of its new gallery, as well as other exhibitions like the one on Saint Francis. The Uffizi can also be explored via Google Art and Culture .

7. Reina Sofia, Spain

If you like 20th-century Spanish artists like Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali , then the Reina Sofia in Madrid is the museum for you. However, if Spain is out of your reach, why not check out this virtual tour and the museum’s online resources.

Reina Sofia’s Rethinking Guernica is an online space devoted to material related to Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica. Also, the museum’s Gigapixel is a project offering a selection of hi-resolution artworks by artists like Dali, Miro, Mason, Picasso, Santos, and more.

Other multimedia like podcasts, lectures, and short video documentaries on the Reina Sofia are available here .

8. Acropolis Museum, Greece

The Acropolis Museum is home to the archaeological treasures of the Acropolis of Athens . The museum offers a series of online activities and resources.

You can browse through its collection and discover the history of the Parthenon marbles thanks to the museum’s collaboration with Google Art and Culture .

Also, the museum offers a series of online interactive games that are ideal for young explorers interested in the secrets of classical antiquity.

9. The State Hermitage Museum, Russia

The Hermitage in St Petersburg is one of the richest museums in the world with more than three million items in its collections. The museum’s exhibition includes everything from Egyptian and Greek, to Renaissance and Modern art.

You can visit all of the museum’s rooms with a virtual tour and experience the Hermitage without wearing your wintertime clothes to go to Russia.

10. Pergamon Museum, Germany

Berlin’s world-famous institution offers a comprehensive range of online and virtual material. You can take a virtual tour of the museum or play around with a 3d model of the Pergamon altar , the jewel of the museum and a marvel of Hellenistic art .

Worth seeing is also the colorful Ishtar Gate from Babylon.

11. British Museum, United Kingdom

The British Museum grew out of the cabinet of curiosities of the British collector Hans Sloane and now includes a massive collection of more than eight million items.

There are many ways to experience the museum online. The best are to take a virtual tour  or visit its virtual galleries .

The British Museum also offers other resources like online access to its collections, podcasts, audio tours, videos, and more.

If you are interested in finding more ways to explore the British Museum from the comfort of your home, then you should read this British Museum blog .

12. Tate Britain, United Kingdom

Tate Britain houses one of the largest collections of J.W. Turner’s paintings which you can now explore with this virtual tour.

The museum’s website provides audio tours of the museum and various online tours on various themes.

13. National Museum Of Anthropology, Mexico

The National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City is devoted to the history of Mexico’s prehispanic civilizations.

Explore the past of the American continent and take a virtual walk at the museum’s rooms with this free online virtual tour .

14. The Met, U.S.A.

The Metropolitan Museum is another institution that has partnered with Google Arts and Culture to offer free online museum tours to a worldwide audience.

Also on the museum’s website, you will find multiple online resources like The Met 360° , a series of six short videos inviting viewers to virtually experience the Met’s architecture and art.

Worth exploring is also the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History offering more than 1,000 essays on art and global culture using the Met’s collection as a point of reference.

15. MoMA, U.S.A

New York’s leading institution on modern and contemporary art is also offering free online museum tours and resources.

There is a comprehensive virtual tour of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) available on Google Arts and Culture.

Furthermore, the museum has a series of online resources and projects available on its website that allow you to explore its collections and exhibitions. An absolute highlight is the 3D model of Van Gogh’s Starry Night .

16. J. Paul Getty Museum, U.S.A.

Los Angeles is only a second away. Just click here and you will immediately teleport to the virtual tour of the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Take a look at the museum’s website for other online resources and access to its collection.

17. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea

Dive into the history of Korean modern art with this virtual tour of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and travel to Seoul without buying a plane ticket.

Don’t forget to check the Online Museum section at the museum’s website which offers interviews with artists and curators, exhibition guides, and more.

18. Museu National, Brazil: A Virtual Tour Against Destruction

Brazil’s National Museum made headlines in 2018 when a good part of its building was destroyed in a fire.

However, thanks to a Google Arts and Culture virtual tour , you can still travel in space and time to take a virtual peek at the museum and its collections before the destruction of 2018.

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Kendall Jenner barefoot at the Louvre at midnight is giving me anxiety. No, that’s not the title of a new Lana Del Rey song, it’s a thing that happened.

The model , in Paris for Fashion Week and Vogue World , recently posted pictures of herself looking at some iconic artworks wearing a black top and skirt, and no shoes, captioning the photo dump “The Louvre at midnight.” No one else seems to be around.

On Instagram, reactions have ranged from impressed to disgusted, with one commenter writing, “We get it. You’re so filthy rich you can get the louvre to open at midnight just for you to walk barefoot around the historic halls. 😭😩,” but another admiring, “you know how powerful this woman is when she can have all the Louvre for herself in the middle of the night.” I mean, surely there are more pressing issues caused by wealth inequality than proximity to the Mona Lisa; like, if you’re at the Louvre at all, you’re probably already somewhat privileged, but I do get it.

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More to the point, it’s a very high-trafficked choice for a Kendall Jenner barefoot moment.

“Dogs out at the louvre is crazy” commented one person. Amen. Despite being an absolutely beautiful city, Paris is, I’m sorry, really dirty! The Seine is super polluted , and remember last Paris Fashion Week when everyone got bedbugs ? The Olympics are gonna be a mess and I love it.

If you’re thinking of visiting the City of Light anytime soon, we highly recommend the Onitsuka Tiger sneakers that Jenner herself is fond of . They’re similar to the popular Adidas Sambas, but don’t look like every other pair of walking shoes every other tourist will be wearing. But the important part is that you wear shoes of some kind, any kind. Can’t stress this enough: wear shoes.

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Kendall Jenner Shares a Look Inside Romantic Date Night with Bad Bunny at the Louvre Museum

The model posed barefoot in front of two iconic paintings as she and her beau enjoyed a private visit to one of Paris' most iconic sites

Kendall Jenner and Bad Bunny are making the most of their time together in the City of Love.

On June 24, the pair paid a visit to one of Paris' most iconic sites, the Louvre Museum, and Jenner, 28, shared some photos from the date night on Instagram a few days later.

“The Louvre at midnight,” she captioned the post, which featured six photos from inside the museum, including two of Jenner posing in front of paintings.

In the first photo, she posed barefoot in front of Paolo Veronese's "The Wedding at Cana," and in another, she leaned in close as she got a priceless private view of the Mona Lisa .

The Puerto Rican singer, 30, was not pictured in any of Jenner's photos but as they were spotted arriving at the museum together on Monday night, fans suspected that he could've been the model's photographer for some of the shots.

"We know who took these picssss," one fan wrote on her post.

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Jenner and Bad Bunny's love has been on display over the last few days as their work lined up during Paris Fashion Week. While the Kardashians star walked in the Vogue World: Paris show on June 23 — alongside her bestie and fellow model Gigi Hadid — Bad Bunny performed. The couple later enjoyed another high-fashion outing as they were photographed heading to dinner at La Girafe following a FWRD Paris Fashion Week event.

PEOPLE confirmed the stars had rekindled their romance in May, five months after they originally parted ways in December.

A source said things were "going well" between them and they were "prioritizing spending time together as they figure it out." Noting there "wasn't ever any drama in their breakup," the source said that Jenner and Bad Bunny "missed each other."

Another insider said their initial split was a result of them not being "on the same page in life," but things are better now.

"It's like they needed the break to miss each other enough to figure things out. They always had this crazy attraction to each other. Things are great again."

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Earlier this month, the 818 mogul joined the Grammy winner in Puerto Rico as they were spotted on a date at Yoko Japanese restaurant. In a photo obtained by TMZ, the couple looked to be deep in conversation as they sat across from each other at dinner.

Before that, she had been spotted looking low-key as she attended one of the singer's concerts in Orlando on May 17. In fan-captured footage, Jenner wore a black sweatshirt with her hood up as she stood in a roped-off section of the crowd and watched the "Monaco" singer's show – just days after they were spotted looking cozy at a Met Gala afterparty .

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Midnight in Paris looks a little different when you’re a multi-millionaire.

Kendall Jenner went barefoot during a private late-night tour of the Louvre earlier this week, causing a stir online.

Between Paris Fashion Week shows, the 28-year-old model spent most of her time exploring the City of Love alongside rumored boyfriend Bad Bunny.

In fact, the lovebirds seemingly rented out the famous Parisian museum on Tuesday for a lavish date night.

“The Louvre at midnight,” Jenner captioned photos standing in front of some of the most famous art pieces in the world — including the Mona Lisa.

Although the “Kardashians” star ditched her shoes for the late-night escapade, she wore a long black skirt with an asymmetrical hemline and a backless black top.

While the “Me Porto Bonito” singer, 30, was not pictured in the Instagram carousel, fans joked that they knew “who took these pics.”

Meanwhile, other users couldn’t help but comment on the model’s lack of footwear in the famed art gallery.

“We get it. You’re so filthy rich you can get the louvre to open at midnight just for you to walk barefoot around the historic halls 😭😩,” one user commented.

“Where are your shoes girl 😭,” another asked, which a third dittoed, “I’m so thrown off by barefeet at the Louvre.”

While wearing footwear is typically an unspoken rule at most indoor facilities, the Louvre doesn’t state that shoes are required anywhere on its website.

Before their stop at the famous art museum, the duo made separate cameos at Vogue World: Paris  on Sunday, where Jenner arrived on horseback while Bad Bunny put on a short performance.

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They were also spotted at an event for Fwrd, where Jenner serves as a creative director, and at celeb-loved restaurant Ferdi.

For their romantic date night, the couple coordinated in matching light gray looks, with the hitmaker rocking a slightly oversized suit and the model showing off her svelte physique in a skintight set from sister Kylie Jenner’s brand Khy.

The reality TV star and the Puerto Rican rapper first sparked dating rumors in February 2023 . Although things briefly fizzled around the holidays, the two were linked again in May 2024.

At the time, a source told Entertainment Tonight that they were “not necessarily back together or an exclusive item” but seeing where it takes them.

“There’s a strong connection between them whenever they’re together and they have the same chemistry that they’ve always had,” the insider said.

“It’s casual, easy and comfortable between them,” they added.

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Why Kendall Jenner's Visit to Paris’ Louvre Museum Is Sparking a Debate

Kendall jenner shared a photo of her visiting the louvre museum in paris, causing some of her followers to criticize her fashion choice..

Kendall Jenner ’s feet are raising some eyebrows. 

After the model shared photos of herself at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, fans were quick to point out her lack of footwear during the outing. 

In the June 26 pictures , Kendall posed with her back to the camera in a long black gown while standing in front of the famous “A Wedding in Cana” by Paolo Veronese . She captioned the photos simply, “The Louvre at midnight.”

Despite the historic fixtures featured in the Kardashians star’s post, including the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo sculpture, fans could only focus on one thing. As one user commented, “Where are your shoes, girl.” 

Another wrote, “I’m so thrown off by barefeet at the Lourve.”

Still, others swooned over the excursion. Even model Lily Aldridge couldn’t help but note that the evening looked “magical.”

With or without footwear, Kendall has been spending a lot of time in Paris this past week. The 28-year-old played a major role in the June 23 Vogue World event at Place Vendôme alongside Gigi Hadid , Sabrina Carpenter , Joe Burrow , Emma Chamberlain and more. 

Later that evening, Kendall a night out with ex boyfriend Bad Bunny , whom she split from in December. The pair were seen grabbing dinner together in the city of love before attending an after-party with pal Gigi. 

And while any run-in with an ex could raise eyebrows, Kendall and Bad Bunny have been friendlier in the last few weeks. In fact, after the pair caught up during the 2024 Met Gala last month, the 818 Tequila founder even flew out to Orlando, Fla. , a few weeks later to catch one of Bad Bunny’s (real name Benito Ocasio ) shows. 

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Kendall Jenner goes barefoot for midnight Louvre tour with Bad Bunny

As rumors swirl about their relationship status, Jenner and Bad Bunny enjoy a lavish, exclusive night at the Louvre.

Kendall Jenner, the renowned model and reality TV star, recently turned heads with a unique late-night escapade at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Amidst the hustle of Paris Fashion Week, the 28-year-old opted for a private tour of the iconic museum, sharing glimpses of her barefoot journey on Instagram, including a snapshot in front of the world-famous Mona Lisa.

Captioning her experience with “The Louvre at midnight,” Jenner’s photos quickly caught the attention of her followers. 

While her rumored boyfriend, 30-year-old Bad Bunny, wasn't featured in the photos, fans humorously speculated about his role behind the camera. 

The couple's private outing sparked envy and light-hearted banter online, with one user commenting on Jenner's lack of footwear: “We get it. You’re so filthy rich you can get the Louvre to open at midnight just for you to walk barefoot around the historic halls.”

Despite the casual tone of her visit, Jenner didn’t compromise on style, donning a long black skirt with an asymmetrical hemline paired with a backless black top. 

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Although their relationship was rumored to have cooled off during the holidays, they were linked again in May 2024. 

According to a source from Entertainment Tonight, while they are "not necessarily back together or an exclusive item," there is "a strong connection between them whenever they’re together and they have the same chemistry that they’ve always had," describing their current status as “casual, easy and comfortable.”

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Darting eyes and busy hands create a captivating narrative between otherwise staid figures, each of which is richly clothed in meticulously painted combinations of color and texture. La Tour took on a theme popularized in Northern Europe by prints and in Rome by Caravaggio: an old Roma (formerly identified with the derisive term "Gypsy") woman reads the young man’s fortune as her beautiful companions take the opportunity to rob him. This celebrated painting, which was only discovered in the mid-twentieth century, is inscribed with the name of the town where the artist lived in northeastern France, supporting the possibility that he developed such works independent of Caravaggio’s precedent.

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Title: The Fortune-Teller

Artist: Georges de La Tour (French, Vic-sur-Seille 1593–1652 Lunéville)

Date: probably 1630s

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 40 1/8 x 48 5/8 in. (101.9 x 123.5 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1960

Accession Number: 60.30

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Every day at 9.45 a.m and 2p.m. A nd every Friday at 6 p.m and 7 p.m This guided tour will make you discover the must-see artworks at the Louvre.

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Until July 5th, every Monday, Friday and Saturday at 10:30 a.m.  Every Friday at 6:30 p.m.  From July 6th to September 20th, every day at 2:30p.m. Enjoy a visit away from the crowds and discover the lesser-known treasures and stunning settings of 'another Louvre.'

Kendall Jenner’s midnight tour of The Louvre sparks controversy

K endall Jenner, renowned model and media personality, has sparked a flurry of reactions after sharing exclusive snapshots from her private midnight tour of The Louvre in Paris.

KENDALL JENNER AT THE LOUVRE

The 28-year-old model and reality star took to Instagram to flaunt her rare escapade through the empty halls of the iconic museum.

This included a notable encounter with the Mona Lisa, according to Daily Mail.

In her Instagram post, Jenner showcased herself standing face-to-face with the Mona Lisa. This is a feat rarely achievable during regular visiting hours.

This privileged access, however, stirred a mixed response among her followers. It highlighted the divide between admiration and criticism.

KENDALL JENNER’S FANS REACT

Supportive fans showered Jenner with praise, likening her to a work of art amidst the museum’s treasures.

One admirer remarked, “You’re still the most beautiful ART.”

Another gushed, “In these photos, we see a timeless masterpiece that only improves with the years.”

Conversely, detractors were quick to condemn Jenner’s apparent privilege and perceived disrespect.

Criticism centred on her choice to tour barefoot, according to Hola.

KENDALL JENNER ENJOYS THE ART

Comments such as, “The bare feet seem so disrespectful,” and “Money doesn’t buy class” were seen under her post

The controversy surrounding Jenner’s visit echoes past family encounters with The Louvre’s hospitality, according to Glamour.

Notably, Kim Kardashian and her daughter North were also treated to a private tour in 2022.

They captured similar attention with their exclusive access to the museum’s famed artworks.

THE LOUVRE RESPONDS

In response to queries, representatives from The Louvre confirmed Jenner’s visit during a closed period for public access.

This underscored her privileged status within celebrity circles.

This exclusivity, while admired by some, has reignited debates on wealth and entitlement.

Kendall Jenner’s midnight escapade at The Louvre continues to fuel discussions on social media.

Her actions are scrutinised through the lens of fame and fortune.

CELEBRITY CULTURE AND PRIVILEGE

As opinions diverge, her influence over cultural spaces and public perception remains a topic of ongoing debate.

Kendall Jenner’s private tour of The Louvre has ignited both admiration and controversy.

It reflects broader discussions on privilege and access in today’s celebrity culture.

WEALTH AND INFLUENCE

Her privileged access prompts questions about equity in cultural spaces.

It invites scrutiny into the role of celebrities in shaping public perception and access to prestigious institutions.

As the saga unfolds, the world watches on, eager to see how such high-profile visits impact public discourse on art, wealth, and influence.

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