Louvre private tour:
Your art historian, your route, your Mona Lisa
Destination
Paris, France
Duration
2 hours
Tour size
Max 6
Language
English
Overview
The Louvre holds 380,000 works across four miles of galleries, and the right ones can hold you still. On this Louvre private tour, an art historian who knows every corner leads you straight to them.
- •Stand before the Mona Lisa and hear why her gaze follows you across the room
- •Follow 2,000 years of sculpture from the smooth curves of Venus de Milo to Michelangelo's unfinished Slaves
- •Descend into the medieval fortress beneath the museum, where the Louvre's 12th-century walls still stand
- •Linger in the Renaissance halls and Dutch masters your guide selects for you
- •Skip the line and spend two hours inside the art, not in the queue
What's included
- Skip-the-line ticket to the Louvre
- Private, licensed art historian guide
You will visit
- Louvre Museum
- Da Vinci's Mona Lisa
- Venus de Milo
- Winged Victory of Samothrace
- Italian Renaissance galleries
- French painting galleries
- Medieval Louvre foundations
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What to expect
A former fortress: where the Louvre's story starts
Your tour begins outside the glass pyramid, where your guide sets the scene. The building you're about to enter started life as a 12th-century fortress, became a royal palace, and survived a revolution before it ever held a painting. You'll see a royal palace first, and a museum second.
Renaissance masters and royal ambition: the galleries most visitors walk past
Once through the entrance, your guide leads you away from the main flow and into galleries most visitors never reach. Italian Renaissance paintings hang floor to ceiling, Michelangelo's unfinished Slaves twist in their marble, and in the Galerie d'Apollon, the French Crown Jewels still catch the light. Because this is a private tour, the route flexes around what interests you most.
"The moment I love is when someone stops in front of a painting they've never heard of and can't look away."
Adam,
WalksDevour guide
"Two hours sounds short for 380,000 works. But when you know which rooms to walk into and which to walk past, it's enough."
Daniel,
WalksDevour guide
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