8.50€ before 6pm, 6€ after 6pm (under 18s: free; Fridays free for under 26s after 6pm). Free 1st Sun of the month or 14 July.
Tickets are valid all day; visitors can leave the museum and return. Tickets provide same-day entrance to the collections of the Musée Delacroix. Sale of tickets stops at 5.15pm (9.15pm Wednesday and Friday).
Three great regions share the collections of this fabulous museum, maybe the greatest in the world.
Sully presents the departments of Egyptian, Greek and Oriental Antiquities (based on the collections of Champollion), , objets d'art (with the famous medieval treasurel) and French painting.
Denon will allow you to discover Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities (Vénus de Milo, sarcophage des Époux), Italian and Nordic sculpture, Italian painting (the Mona Lisa is the centre of attention, so do not miss the opportunity to see Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Veronese, Titian and Raphael), Spanish painting (El Greco) and the grands formats of French painting ( Le Radeau de la Méduse by Géricault).
Richelieu houses Islamic art, French sculpture, oriental antiquities, French painting from the 14th to the 17C and the northern schools (Van Eyck, Holbein, Cranach, Brueghel le Vieux, Frans Hals... ).
Primitive arts (Africa, Oceania, America, Asia) have since 2000 been granted a space of 50,000 square feet, which can be reached via the porte des Lions.
An itinerary has been set up for one-day-only visitors who wish to see the must-sees. Parisians and those who have a little more time will visit such and such a department according to their interests at the time, and have well excellent maps to guide them.
In the Medieval Louvre, you are taken into the impressive world of the fortress that Philippe Auguste built at the start of the 13C: along the route, you will discover the counterscarp wall, the 9 feet thick curtain, the foundations of the dwellings that were added by Charles V in 1360, the pier of the draw-bridge and the foundations of the castle's twin towers, the moat of the circular keep, known as the «big tower», and the royal objects found at the bottom of the keep's well are on show in two rooms.
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