The Louvre, unhurried
Thirty-five thousand works across eight departments. Alone it overwhelms; on a private Louvre tour with a licensed guide-conférencier it becomes a sequence of stories.
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From a first visit to a single thread: every private tour of the Louvre.
The essential Louvre: the most celebrated works, with the context that makes them matter.
Where it all begins: Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Greeks and the Romans.
A single thread: one artist, one school or one idea, followed across the galleries.
Not sure where to begin?
Which Louvre tour is for you?
What draws you most?
Have you been to the Louvre before?
Louvre Highlights
The essential works, in context
The Grand Tour
The museum, end to end
The Louvre at Night
The galleries after dark
Did you know?
1863
The year the Winged Victory was found on the island of Samothrace, in pieces. Her head and arms have never been recovered.
Did you know?
1911
The year the Mona Lisa was stolen, by a glazier who had worked at the Louvre. She was found in Florence two years later.
Ancient Egypt: Chronological
Three thousand years of Egypt
Ancient Egypt: Thematic
Egypt, by theme
Mesopotamia
The first cities
Greece & Rome
The Classical Mediterranean, and the Etruscans
The Italian Masters
The Italian Renaissance
Did you know?
33 feet
The width of Veronese's Wedding Feast at Cana, the largest painting in the Louvre. It hangs opposite the Mona Lisa.
Across the Channel
France and England, side by side
French Sculpture
French sculpture, under glass
Did you know?
1190
Around that year, King Philip Augustus built a fortress here. Its moat and the base of its keep still stand beneath the museum.
Did you know?
1682
The year Louis XIV moved his court to Versailles. The palace he left behind became a museum a century later.
Masters of the North
The Northern schools
Animals of the Louvre
Animals of the Louvre
Women of the Louvre
Women of the Louvre
A theme of your own?
Your own thread
A painter, a period, a single object: tell us what you love, and we will build the visit around it.
Ask us →Pair the Louvre with the rest of Paris
A morning at the Louvre and an afternoon at the Orsay, or Notre-Dame, or Montmartre. Build a full day across several sites and we arrange the timing and connections between each.