The Louvre - Paris

The Louvre Museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, an architectural colossus built in the 1500s to house French royalty, on the same site as a 13th-century castle.

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The Louvre Museum in Paris, the largest art museum in the world, does not usually disappoint the 10 million visitors who face all the perrengues to cross its doors annually. They are always looking for their huge reward: discovering works of incalculable artistic value, in addition to unique archaeological relics in humanity.

Visiting the Louvre is one of the highlights of a trip to Paris. Here are some tips to optimize your tour.

This guide presents a good idea of what is inside that magnificent building, with its glass pyramid, and gives valuable tips to make your visit even more pleasant.

Approximately 140 years later, with the departure of King Louis XIV to the Palace of Versailles, the building became a space for royal works of art and continued with this same function until the French Revolution.

While the guillotine fell on noble necks, it was decided that the Louvre would continue as a space for art, but officially as a museum of French masterpieces.

The official opening was on August 10, 1793.

Since then, much has changed. The Louvre changed its name, grew, diminished, closed, reopened, faced wars and Nazis and remained firm.

Its last major change was the glass pyramid that became its main entrance. It was inaugurated in 1988, in the midst of much criticism and controversy, but it also faced everything and ended up becoming an icon of the museum.

Main works of the Louvre Museum in Paris

The museum has almost half a million objects and exhibits 35,000 of them on its premises. Among the most famous collections and works are:

Egyptian antiquities that include objects from 4000 BC.

Antiquities from the Middle East, from times before the rise of Islam in the region.

Greek, Etruscan and Roman works.

The Venus de Milo.

Objects of decorative art from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.

The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.

The painting The Heart of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David.

The classic painting Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix.

The magnificent work Death of the Virgin, by Caravaggio.

The Code of Hammurabi.

Works by Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Goya and many other names that marked the history of western art.

The queues at the Louvre are as famous as the Mona Lisa. But you can escape without breaking any rules, just by taking some precautions that unsuspecting tourists do not take.

Buy your ticket online. It costs a few euros more, but it is worth the investment because you enter through a different queue, much smaller than the normal queue (which is sometimes so long that you can't even get in). Click here to buy timed ticket.

Consider purchasing the Paris Museum Pass, which allows you to enter the Louvre directly without going through the regular line. But beware: it is mandatory that you register and book your entry time on the museum's website. Of course, buying a pass is only recommended if it matches what you intend to do in the city, so check the conditions on the company's website: parismuseumpass.com

Get up early or leave the museum for the end of the day (or even night). The first hours of the morning and the last hours of the afternoon are the least crowded. Enjoy. Also check the closing times of the Louvre on your days in Paris. If you're in town on days when it closes at night, the night visit is a great way to go.

Enter through the Carrousel du Louvre, the mall next to the museum. The address is 99 Rue de Rivoli and the queues are much shorter than at the main entrance. Just be aware of the mall's opening hours, which are not the same as the museum's.

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