Your First Visit to the Louvre
A realistic two to three hour plan, how to choose priorities and how to pace a visit to a very large museum.
Guides
Louvre Visitor Guides
Practical, independent advice for planning your time inside the museum. Each guide links to official sources for rules and to tour formats where a guide could help.
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Seeing the Mona Lisa at the Louvre
What to expect in the room, why there is no separate Mona Lisa ticket and how to build a wider route around it.
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Visiting the Louvre with Children
A shorter route, regular breaks, ticket ages and what free entry for children does and does not cover.
More planning pages
- Plan your visit: the step by step checklist
- Opening hours: days, late openings and last entry
- Getting there: metro, entrances and meeting points
- Tickets and tours: compare formats before you book