Extended Louvre Masterpieces & Royal Palace Semi-Private Tour
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With a carefully planned route, our Louvre tours visit the best of the museum, including works you know like the Mona Lisa and a few less famous works you’ll want to know.
With small group sizes of only 6 people or fewer and expert, English-speaking guides our Semi-Private Louvre tours offer a more intimate experience with time to ask all the questions you want answers to.
We include Skip the Line Access so you don’t waste time waiting in lines that can stretch for hours during busy periods. This is the world’s most visited museum after all!
Don’t just see the Louvre Museum, really experience it with our Semi-Private Louvre Tours. We follow a carefully planned route to show you the very best of the Louvre collection, from big name masterpieces like the Mona Lisa to works by less famous artists that will steal your heart.
Travelling with an expert, English-speaking guide in groups of only 6 people or fewer, your tour will be intimate and your guide easy to interact with. As they lead you through the collection they’ll tell you the stories that bring the artworks to life. You’ll learn about the numerous theories regarding who da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ really was. At Gericault’s ‘Raft of Medusa’ you’ll hear about the newspaper story it was based on, which told of a crew stranded on a raft who eventually resorted to cannibalism. You’ll learn about the French Revolution as depicted by the great artists of France and even learn a little Flemish history along the way!
We’ve carefully designed our Louvre tour route to visit all the most important works of the Louvre Museum. We’ll see as the ‘Mona Lisa’, Canova’s ‘Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss’, Delacroix’s ‘Liberty Leading the People’, ‘Venus di Milo’ and the stunning ‘Victory of Samothrace’. We’ll see less famous works along the way and visit some of France’s underappreciated geniuses. Of course we’ll make time to explore the Louvre as a royal palace too, visiting the Napoleon apartments and seeing some of the collections stunning crowns and jewels.
With Skip the Line Access on all our Louvre tours, you won’t waste precious time waiting in line. Instead we’ll make the best of every moment we have together, exploring the art, history and culture of France through the world’s most-visited museum.
Due to increased security measures at many attractions some lines may form on tours with 'Skip the Line' access.
Please note that the Napoleon Apartments will be closed for renovation works from 25 July to 15 October 2017. In substitution, the tour will include other portions of the Louvre in line with the advertised tour length and the rooms that are open on the given day.
Photography is permitted at the Louvre, strictly without flash.
Unfortunately, any items exceeding 55 cm x 35 cm x 20 cm are not permitted in the Louvre Museums so we ask our visitors not to bring big bags or luggage with them to the meeting point as they could be refused entry.
Yes, at the end of the tour you are free to remain inside of the museums for as long as you wish. The tickets are valid for the whole day as long as you do not exit the museums.
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