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Near Eastern Antiquities
English
This department presents the
civilizations of the ancient Middle
East, which date to seven thousand
years BC. They succeeded each other
in Mesopotamia, Iran, and the Levant,
a vast territory stretching from the
Mediterranean Sea to India.
Egyptian Antiquities
Gardens
Tuileries
Created by Jean-François
Champollion, this department
illustrates the art of ancient Egypt
by means of two designated paths.
The first is chronological, from the
origins to Cleopatra, and the second
is thematic, highlighting specific
aspects of Egyptian civilization.
Two additional sections, devoted
to Coptic Egypt and Roman Egypt,
round off this presentation.
entrance
Porte des Lions
entrance
Porte des Lions
Greek, Etruscan,
and Roman Antiquities
This department contains works
produced by three ancient
civilizations: Greece, Etruria, and
Rome. On the ground floor,
entrances
du Carrousel
Galerie
a chronological path concentrates
on marble sculptures from the 3rd
millennium BC to the 6th century
AD. On the first floor, the collection
is organized by technique and type
entrance
99, rue de Rivoli
of material used: bronzes, jewelry,
silverware, and glassware as well
as terracotta figurines and vases.
entrance
Pyramid
History of the Louvre
main
and Medieval Louvre
These two rooms and an archeological
path present the architectural history
of the palace.
Passage Richelieu
Passage Richelieu
Musée du Louvre
Palais-Royal-
Visit rules
The Louvre Museum is starting a new
campaign to make visitors realize the
connection between respect for works
of art and their preservation, called
Rue de Rivoli
«Les règles de l’art».
As you proceed through the museum,
you will recognize these pictograms:
each one represents one of the six
rules to be followed while visiting the
Cour Carrée
museum. By following these rules, you
are helping us effectively promote and
protect our heritage collections while
ensuring a pleasant visit for all.
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Paintings
The collections in this department
cover the history of European painting
from the mid-13th century to the
mid-19th century. They are divided
into three large groups: the French
school (a numerical majority), the
Italian and Spanish schools, and the
Northern European schools (German,
Flemish, and Dutch).
Sculptures
This department encompasses
European sculpture from the High
Middle Ages to the mid-19th century.
The collections contain French works
for the most part, with a number of
significant pieces from Italy, Spain and
Northern Europe.
Decorative arts
The collections in this
department–e.g. objects from
the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,
decorative arts of the 17th and 18th
centuries, items from the Diamants
de la Couronne collection belonging
to the French crown, 19th-century
objects and furniture, and the
Napoleon III apartments–spans many
different periods.
The 18th century decorative arts section
is closed until 2012 due to major
restorations supported by the High
Museum of Art and its patrons: Mrs. Anne
Cox Chambers, Accenture, UPS, Turner
Broadcasting System Inc., The Coca-Cola
Company, Delta Air Lines, AXA Art
Insurance Corporation and The Sara Giles
Moore Foundation, as well as the Cressent
Circle and American Friends of the Louvre.
In permanent collection rooms, visitors
may take photographs and videos.
However, the use of a flash or any other
type of lighting equipment is prohibited.
In temporary exhibition rooms, visitors
may not take photographs or videos.
Visitors may not use their cell phone,
smoke, consume food or beverages,
speak loudly, touch any work of art,
or run in any room of the museum.
Prints and Drawings
The Prints and Drawings Department
contains the collection of drawings
(more than one hundred thousand
works), the Edmond de Rothschild
donation and the engraved plates
collection. These works may be viewed
privately by arrangement. Remarkably
rich but extremely fragile, they are
displayed in regular temporary
exhibitions, as well as in the exhibition
rooms of the museum on a rotational
basis.
Viewing room, Department of Prints
and Drawings.
Information: 01 40 20 52 51.
Islamic Art
On display in this department are
works from Islamic areas including
various countries in the Mediterranean
Basin, Iran, central Asia and India.
Some items used to belong to the
French royal collections. This
collection is composed primarily of
objects made of ceramics, metals or
wood in addition to ivories, rugs, and
paintings from the 7th to the 19th
century.
The exhibition rooms used for the
Department of Islamic Art are currently
closed. A new gallery is scheduled to open
in the Cour Visconti in 2012.
Arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania,
and the Americas
This selection of works, on display at
the Louvre since April 2000, is part of
the collections from the Quai Branly
museum.
Find out more about
the collections: www.louvre.fr
Address
Musée du Louvre,
75058 Paris Cedex 01.
Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 20 50 50.
Getting to the Louvre
- Main entrance by the Pyramid.
- Other entrances: the Porte des Lions
entrance (direct access to the Arts
of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the
Americas), the Galerie du Carrousel
entrance (99, rue de Rivoli, or through
the Jardin du Carrousel), and the
Passage Richelieu entrance (for groups,
visitors already bearing a valid
admission ticket, or those headed
for the auditorium).
- Metro station: Palais Royal-Musée
du Louvre (Lines 1 and 7).
- Underground parking lot: from
7 a.m. to 11 p.m., avenue
du Général-Lemonnier.
Tel.: +33 (0)1 42 44 16 32.
- Taxis: place du Palais-Royal.
- Buses: 21, 24, 27, 39, 48, 68, 69, 72,
81, 95.
- Batobus.
- Vélib (self-service bicycles), station
numbers 1013 to 1015, 1023 and 1025.
Admission prices
Tickets
Tickets are valid all day for the
permanent collections and temporary
exhibitions, except those in the Hall
Napoléon. They include same-day
access to the Musée Eugène-Delacroix.
The ticket window closes at 5:15 p.m.
(or 5 p.m. at the Porte des Lions
entrance) and at 9:15 p.m.
on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Full price: € 10.
Exhibitions in the Hall Napoléon: € 11
Combined ticket: € 14 for the
permanent collections and exhibitions
in the Hall Napoléon.
Free admission: Upon presentation
of the appropriate supporting document,
admission is free for young people
under 18, job-seekers, disabled
visitors and one accompanying person.
Admission is free for EEC citizens
under 26 and practicing teachers
upon presentation of a valid «Pass
education» card, excluding the temporary
exhibitions in the Hall Napoléon.
Services and amenities
Free services
A coat and bag check service (small
bags only), a first aid room, strollers and
baby carriers to use when visiting the
museum, and a lost-and-found service.
Free brochures
A number of designated tour paths
and brochures are available
at the information desk.
Activities at the Louvre
Introductory tours in French and
in English; guided tours; workshop
activities for children and adults signed
up as individuals or in groups (except
on Sunday afternoons, Sundays when
admission is free, and holidays).
To sign up, go to the group
reception desk.
- History of the Louvre and
- Ancient Iran, Arabia and the Levant
- Pharaonic Egypt
- Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
- 17th, 18th-century Decorative arts
- 17th, 18th and 19th-century Drawings
- 17th, 18th, 19th-century French
- Islamic Art
- Mesopotamia and ancient Iran
- French sculptures
- Napoléon III apartments
- Decorative arts (Middle Ages,
- German, Flemish and Dutch paintings
- 14th-17th century French Paintings
- A rts of Africa, Asia, Oceania,
- Roman Egypt and Coptic Egypt
- Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
- Italian, Spanish and Northern
- Galerie d’Apollon, the Diamants
- English Paintings
- 19th-century French Paintings
- Italian and Spanish Paintings
Paintings
Medieval Louvre
and pastels
Renaissance, 17th and 19th centuries)
(Northern European schools)
and the Americas
European sculptures
de la Couronne jewelry collection
Sully wing
Richelieu wing
Denon wing
Museum hours
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Open every day, except Tuesdays
and certain holidays. Information desk:
Under the Pyramid
Napoleon Hall
- T he Pyramid entrance: 9 a.m. Beneath the Pyramid and
to 9:45 p.m., except Tuesdays. at the Porte des Lions entrance.
- The Porte des Lions entrance: Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 20 53 17.
9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., except
Tuesdays and Fridays.
Museum collection hours Visitors with disabilities
Open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Late night opening To leave a message:
on Wednesdays and Fridays until 9:45 p.m. - Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 20 59 90.
Exhibition rooms close from 5:30 p.m. - handicap@louvre.fr
or 9:30 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Visitors with impaired mobility
There is no late night opening on public
Wheelchairs, strollers and baby carriers
holidays.
are available free of charge for use while
Gallery opening hours visiting the museum.
To know which rooms are opened Information:
or closed on each day of the week, Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 20 53 17.
visitors may check a weekly schedule
Group visits
available at the Pyramid entrance, at the
Pyramid
Inverted
to shopping area
Access
du Louvre
Palais Royal-Musée
Metro station:
For groups of 7 or more, a reservation
information desk or on www.louvre.fr.
must be made in advance.
Temporary exhibition hours Information:
- Under the Pyramid (Hall Napoléon): - Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 20 57 60
from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and until 9:45 p.m. (independent groups)
on Wednesdays and Fridays. Special - Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 20 51 77
prices apply. (groups that require a museum
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- E xhibitions held in permanent tour guide).
7 Shop selling items
6 Société des amis
5 Espace services billetterie
4 Café featuring Louvre
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collection galleries: opening hours
Bookstore
for young people
du Louvre
publications
Souvenir shop
Post office
(membership center)
E space Adhésion
are the same as for the museum.
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Admission is free for all on the first Multimedia guide: € 6; reduced price of
Sunday of every month. € 4 for job-seekers and disabled visitors,
Information: € 2 for children under 18 years of age.
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Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 20 53 17.
Musée national Eugène-Delacroix
Purchasing tickets in advance 6, rue de Furstenberg, 75006 Paris.
Visitors with tickets purchased Open from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily
in advance do not have to wait in line except Tuesdays. Information:
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and their tickets have an unlimited date +33 (0)1 44 41 86 50.
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of validity. Reservations can be made:
the museum.
and advice on visiting
for information
Reception desk
Information desk
Société des amis du Louvre
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- By visiting www.louvre.fr
9 Audio-visual room:
(Friends of the Louvre)
Richelieu
- By calling 0 892 684 694 (€ 0.34/min.)
Free of charge.
at the entrance.
The program is posted
Films about the Louvre.
Denon
Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 20 53 34.
or +33 (0)1 41 57 32 28
- At many stores in France, including: Espace adhésion
Auchan, Bon Marché, Carrefour, Cora, (Membership center)
Cultura, Fnac, Galeries Lafayette, Leclerc, Allée du Grand-Louvre; open from
Printemps Haussmann, and Virgin... 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and until 9 p.m.
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on evenings with late night opening.
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Purchasing multiple tickets
Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 20 51 04.
(20 minimum)
Passes available:
(For tour operators, associations,
-T he Carte Louvre jeunes.
comités d’entreprise in French
-T he Carte Louvre familles.
- G roup tours (both
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Reservations:
Information:
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companies etc.)
-T he Carte Louvre profesionnels.
- Activities and private tours.
and point of departure for:
This is the meeting point
+33 (0)1 40 20 55 00.
or on www.louvre.fr
+33 (0)1 40 20 55 55
300 events each season.
for young audiences. Used for
concerts and entertainment
lectures, readings, films,
literature, cinema, and music:
Archeology, art history,
- Musée & Compagnie,
tour guide)
groups with a museum
independent groups and
- The Paris Museum Pass.
Hall Napoléon
Temporary exhibition
Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 13 49 13.
- museecie@rmn.fr The Paris Museum Pass
Valid for 2, 4, or 6 days in 60 museums
and monuments in the Paris area.
Prices: € 32, € 48 or € 64
Sully
Bookstore, boutiques and engravings
Guidebooks, catalogues, and
reproductions of art works are sold Places to eat
under the Pyramid and - Cafés / tea rooms.
in the Allée du Grand Louvre. - Cafés / restaurants
- Cafeteria.
- Sandwich and take-out outlets.
of the Louvre
American Friends
Multimedia guide
D.R. / Musée du Louvre. Printing: 09 / 2011.
Project coordinator: A. Giroux, Musée du Louvre. Photo credits:
and curator for the Domaine national du Louvre et des Tuileries.
Art consultant: P. Bernard. Cover drawing: G. Nicot, Chief architect
Graphic design: Atelier Takavoir / B. Pell / Musée du Louvre.
Guide / map subject to modifications.
Tuileries Gardens
www.aflouvre.org
a donation online, go to:
For more information or to make
and its American visitors.
to strengthen ties between the Louvre
for-profit public charity– was founded
American Friends of the Louvre –a not-
to better serve its visitors.
of educational tools to enable the Louvre
for its major support of the development
The Annenberg Foundation
American Friends of the Louvre salutes
Sotheby’s
Air France
of its Corporate Founder Members:
acknowledges the generous support
American Friends of the Louvre gratefully
Chose from a selection of works and Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 20 90 43.
a choice of tour paths in French, English, - Free guided tour: in French every
Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Saturday and Sunday afternoon, from
Korean and French sign language. April to October. Leaves at 3:15 p.m.,
For hire at the tills situated at the Denon, lasts approximately 1 hour 15 minutes.
Sully and Richelieu entrances. - Outdoor activities and shows.
- Librairie des jardins bookstore
(place de la Concorde).
- Many places to eat.
The information in this document,
including price information,
is subject to change.
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