Louvre Museum: Reserved Entry + Masterpieces Guided Tour

Additional Information & Description

The Louvre Museum brings together masterpieces and ancient objects on a scale few museums can match: 35,000 artifacts are displayed at any given time. This reserved-entry tour gives that vast collection a focused route, with a live guide leading you through selected highlights rather than leaving you to navigate the galleries alone.

Reserved access and a guided introduction

The ticket includes reserved entry with priority access and an English-speaking live guide. The guided tour lasts one hour and provides an orientation to the museum through its masterpieces and collections. It is a structured introduction to the Louvre, with the guide directing your route through the selected galleries and works.

Paintings and French sculpture

The itinerary includes Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, painted in 1506, and major French paintings such as Liberty Leading the People. These named works give the painting galleries a clear focus. The route also reaches the Richelieu Wing and its French sculptures, extending the visit beyond paintings into another substantial part of the museum’s collection.

Ancient civilizations and their surviving treasures

The Venus de Milo and the Caryatids feature among the ancient treasures, alongside a passage through the Etruscan collections. Pharaonic Egypt is represented by the Seated Scribe and a mummy. The tour also explores the ancient Near East through the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Syria and Persia. These collections connect the objects on display with the origins of writing, architecture and culture, giving the visit a reach well beyond European art.

The palace beneath and within the museum

The Louvre’s medieval foundations reveal an earlier layer of the palace, while the decorative arts of the kings and the apartments of Napoleon III introduce its royal and imperial interiors. The itinerary also includes the Galerie d’Apollon and its jewels. Together, these stops make the building itself part of the visit, not simply a setting for the artworks.

Arrival and ticket scope

Arrive at the Arc du Carrousel, 75001 Paris, 20 minutes before the tour starts. Tickets are delivered instantly and can be presented on a smartphone. Temporary exhibitions are excluded, as is a guided tour of the rest of the Louvre collection; the guided coverage focuses on the selected itinerary described above.