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Self-guided tour
Book a self-guided tour
All group visits must be pre-booked. Groups without a reservation will be refused access to the collections. We advise all groups to book a time slot a few weeks in advance of their visit.
Hours & admission
There are two parts to a group reservation:
- Pay the group reservation fee: all groups (7 to 25 people maximum, including exempt visitors) must book a specific time and date for their visit and pay a group reservation fee (70 €).
- Purchase a "participants" ticket: this ticket allow for the admission of the whole group. Individual admission tickets cost €22 (click here for list of visitors eligible for free admission). The number of visitors may be changed, subject to availability, until the day prior to the visit.
If you are a tourism professional and would like to book a visit for foreign school groups, please contact us.
Every day except Tuesdays, 1 May, 25 December and 1 January. Time slots are available between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., and until 7.15 p.m. on Wenesdays and Fridays.
How to make a reservation
All bookings are made via the online ticketing service. You can choose between :
-Tickets to the museum (temporary exhibition in the Hall Napoléon not included).
- Ticket to 'Figures of the Fool' exhibition (access to the permanent collections not included).
Book a time slot and individual tickets to visit the temporary exhibition in the Hall Napoléon (access to the permanent collections not included).
Group bookings are currently open until February 28, 2025. Reservations for group slots for March and April 2025 open on Tuesday, January 7.
The launch of the new ticketing system and the introduction of new rates for group visits have been postponed.
On the day
Plan your route and find the best way to get to the museum. You will then need to head to either the Passage Richelieu or Galerie du Carrousel entrance, where you will be asked to present your reservation confirmation and individual tickets.
You will need to go at the group reception area under the Pyramid to sort out the final formalities before beginning your visit, and will be asked to present your reservation confirmation in order to receive permission to speak publicly in the museum. Lockers and toilets are available.
To ensure that everyone enjoys a comfortable visit, museum guides and their guests must use their own headphones. Without this equipment, groups cannot be admitted to the museum.
At the end of the visit, which lasts a maximum of 3 hours, the whole group must leave the museum. It is strictly forbidden to continue the visit individually.
The right to speak publicly
In order to be granted permission to speak publicly in the museum, tour guides must hold a professional card. As the reservation fee covers the right to speak publicly, once arrangements have been made tour guides may take the group around the museum at the booked time slot.
Due to the configuration of certain rooms and in order to make the visit to the ‘FASHION AT THE LOUVRE’ exhibition as comfortable as possible, we would ask guide-lecturers not to take the floor in rooms 607 to 632.
Plan your visit
All the practical information you need to prepare your group visit
Open rooms
Please check the schedule of room closures to better plan your visit
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Museum entrances
Which entrances should groups use to enter the Louvre?
Two special entrances are reserved specifically for groups: in the Richelieu passageway and the underground Carrousel shopping centre.
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Helpful tips
Questions about visiting as a group
A special reception area for groups is available beneath the Pyramid: personalised welcome by museum staff, rooms to prepare for your visit or take a break, large lockers to hold the personal belongings of up to 25 visitors. Everything you need to make your visit a success!