Louvre Museum Ultimate Tour in Paris

From the point of the meeting, at the courtyard, you will receive a broad base of understanding of this glass building and the remarkable museum as you walk your way straight through a priority line to the security check without queuing to enter the museum as its most renowned and most visited museum of the world.

Once inside the doors of the museum, the guide will provide you with a little insight into the history of how King Charles V and Philippe II chose this palace as their residence before it opened as a museum.

As the guide lead you through the corridors, you’ll discover the vast collections of arts and sculptures, as the collection is organized by themes into various departments; Oriental Antiquities Department, Egyptian Antiquities Department, Greek Antiquities Department, Roman and Etruscan departments, and also a part on the history of the actual palace, including the Louvre during the Middle Ages, Islamic art, paintings, sculptures, and graphic art.

The guide will show you the most important and famous masterpieces as well as some of the lesser now beauties that you might have passed without notice in this museum. The first stop will be at the lower ground floor to see famous sculptures such as Venus de Milo the ancient Greek statue, Seated Scribe the ancient Egyptian sculpture and Winged Victory of Samothrace, a Hellenistic sculpture, and more. The guide will also fill you in with the details of the many thousand years old sculptures of Egyptian Antiquities, artwork, paintings, and sculptural wonders by Michelangelo, and other famous artists in the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Antiquities. You’ll also admire the richly furnished and decorated salons preserved from the Second Empire, the last time the Louvre was home to a sovereign.

Next, you’ll move on to the ground floor of the museum, where you admire more of the Greek and Egyptian masterpieces as the guide will explain to you the hidden story behind all of these artworks.

You’ll visit the first floor of the museum the most crowded and busiest floor of the Louver. Here you might appreciate the decorative arts collection of French Crown Jewels, Silverware, Semi-precious gems, and more from the early Middle Ages to the first half of the 19th century.

The tour's most awaited and last stop will be at the Department of Paintings, to see the world-famous painting of, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, the guide will give an explanation and anecdote about this enigmatic image and also the guide will introduce you to the Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix and the Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese and many other paintings.

Your two-hour tour will end at the paintings department, but before the tour ends the guide will also fascinate you with the story and the details of the masterpieces displayed in the museum. you’ll also have the option to remain in the museum until its closing time.

Meet your guide in front of the Statue de Louis XIV sous les traits de Marcus Curtius (copie), in Cour Napoléon et Pyramide du Louvre, 75001 Paris.

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Please be present at the meeting point 15 minutes before departure time in order to avoid any delay.