About this experience
Do you want to become familiar with the Louvre and quickly understand how many eras and greatest cultural treasures this museum has absorbed? You will see firsthand the art objects without which the main French treasure house cannot be imagined, get acquainted with the huge museum space and the history of these walls - remembering monarchs and their courtiers.
The tour is conducted for a group of at least 3 people. Please inquire before paying for the tour whether it will take place.
What to expect
Keys to the Louvre: museum hacking
The route you will take will save you time and energy as there are fewer transitions and stairs. At the same time, your acquaintance with the Louvre will be complete: in 2 hours you will see the iconic exhibits of the museum and will definitely meet its most famous ladies - the Venus de Milo, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, and the Mona Lisa. The structure and logic of the tour will help you immerse yourself in each epoch of French history and understand how from a medieval fortress the Louvre gradually turned into one of the best and largest museums in the world.
Luxury and art objects of the Louvre
You will visit the ceremonial apartments of the Sun King and Napoleon III, the bedroom of Napoleon Bonaparte and his throne room. You will admire the collection of Etruscan gold jewelry and diamond diadems, crowns, and brooches of Empress Eugénie, discovering that they have something in common. You will come into contact with the talent and masterpieces of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, Veronese and Delacroix. You will learn the most interesting facts about the court life of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, Henry of Navarre and Marie de' Medici. You will also visit the viewpoints that offer breathtaking panoramas of the Louvre surroundings.
Organizational details
How the tour goes
- The tour is conducted for a group of at least 3 people. Please inquire before paying for the tour whether it will take place.
- We will enter the Louvre without waiting in line. Do not be late for the tour, arrive 5 minutes before the start; after the start of the tour, you will not be able to enter the museum without waiting in line and join the group.
- Please inform in advance if there is a person with limited mobility among you.
- The tour will be conducted by me or another guide from my team.
Additional expenses
- Entrance tickets to the Louvre are not included in the tour price.
- You buy tickets yourself for a specific time (30 minutes before the tour, at 09:30 and 13:00). If you have not purchased tickets for the required time, you need to urgently write to the guide and provide your names and surnames in Latin and age so that he can buy them for you. Cost - 25 euros per person. From 15.01.24 the cost of tickets is 30 euros per person.
- The tour can be taken in individual format (museum tickets are also paid for separately).
Please note
- When ordering a tour, please provide the names and surnames (in Latin letters) of all participants over 18 years old.
- The guide buys entrance tickets in advance, so if you cancel the tour on your part a day before and less - the prepayment is not refundable.
- Be sure to inform the guide if you have a Paris Museum Pass or if you have purchased museum tickets yourself.
- In France, banknotes of €200 and €500 are not accepted, so please prepare banknotes of smaller denominations in advance.
