Skip the Line: Paris Louvre Museum Guided Tour

Skip the Line: Paris Louvre Museum Guided Tour

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Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
Location: Paris, France
Product code: 2050_PA
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Don't waste time waiting in queues - take a Louvre Museum prioritized guided tour. Make a booking and jump the queue to make the most of your limited time inside the world's largest museum. After your guided tour, you can stay on if you want to and continue exploring the Louvre Museum at your leisure.

Highlights
Informative, friendly and professional guide
Skip the line
All entrance fees included
Your prioritized guided tour of Paris' Louvre Museum focuses on three world-famous works: the Venus de Milo, the Victory of Samothrace and Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, painted at the beginning of the 16th century.

The Louvre Museum has always been popular but it's now even more of a drawcard since the phenomenal success of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code. By booking your place on this tour you can skip the queues and see the famous Mona Lisa without the hassles.

A must do way to see the Louvre, a ver y informative tour guide.
Reviewed by: Michelle, April 2011

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Very informative - would recommend
Reviewed by: Mariap, April 2011

Do not try to do the Louvre without a guide. It is too large and you will be overwhelmed It is a mad house of people especially around the Mona Lisa . Our guide gave us great history stories about the place and she showed us all of the main pieces. WE skipped the line and got right in.
Reviewed by: Marco V, USA, April 2011

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Fabulous
Reviewed by: Girisankar S, April 2011

Our guide was great and gave us the best tour possible despite the huge crowds at the Louvre that may it sometimes challenging. For being our first time it was a good orientation to the museum.
Reviewed by: Joe G, USA, March 2011...Booking Now: Paris Louvre Museum Guided Tour

Even people who aren’t interested in art or museums tend to have the famous Louvre Museum in Paris on their to-do list when they visit this city. It makes sense, because it’s one of the most well-known museums in the world, housing some of the best-known pieces of art anywhere. It’s also an enormous museum, so it’s not necessarily something you can approach casually. A bit of advance research will help make sure that you don’t miss anything you’d regret not seeing in person.
In this post we’ll look at some of the more famous things on display at the Louvre, introduce you to a brief history of the Louvre, give you some valuable visitors tips, tell you how to get to the Louvre, discuss some options for Louvre tours, and list all the museum information you’ll need (including hours of operation and ticket prices) so you can include the Louvre Museum in your Paris itinerary with the least amount of difficulty.

What to See at the Louvre
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Easily the most famous thing on display in the Louvre is Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Nevermind that it’s rare to get a good view of the painting because it’s obscured by the hundreds of people in front of you holding their cameras up to snap identical photos. (There’s a reason it came in at #1 on one list of the most disappointing attractions in Europe!) It’s still something that, if you’ve paid the admission to get into the Louvre, you’re likely to be disappointed if you don’t see for yourself.
Here’s a sampling of other things that are often included on the “Louvre Greatest Hits” list:

Sculptural

The Seated Scribe – This Egyptian sculpture is remarkable as it dates from 2600-2500 B.C.E. and is in fantastic condition. It’s painted limestone, and the eyes include pieces of crystal.

Venus de Milo – This Greek statue of Aphrodite is named for the island where it was discovered (Melos), and dates to roughly 100 B.C.E.
Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss – You may not know the name of this marble sculpture, but you’ll recognize it. It’s by Antonio Canova and was carved in the late 1700s.

Michelangelo’s Slaves – There are two unfinished carvings by Michelangelo at the Louvre, called the Dying Slave and the Rebellious Slave.

Winged Victory – While many walk right by this Greek statue because it’s situated at the top of a staircase in the Louvre, it’s one of the most famous sculptural figures in the world. It dates from the 2nd or 3rd century B.C.E. and depicts the Greek goddess of victory, Nike.

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Painting

Other da Vinci Works – The Mona Lisa isn’t the only famous da Vinci painting in the Louvre. The museum also has the Virgin & Child with St. Anne, St. John the Baptist, and Madonna of the Rocks on display (the latter, along with the Mona Lisa, both figured into Dan Brown’s novel “The Da Vinci Code”).

Death of the Virgin – This Caravaggio painting was completed in the early 17th century.

The Wedding at Cana – This enormous 16th century painting by Veronese shows the Biblical story where Christ turned water into wine.

La Belle Jardinière – One of several works by Raphael at the Louvre, this painting depicts the Madonna with a Christ child and St. John the Baptist as a child.
Liberty Leading the People – It’s not all Italian painters at the Louvre! This painting by Eugène Delacroix was completed in 1830 to commemorate the French Revolution.

The Raft of the Medusa – Another French painter, Théodore Géricault, completed this work in 1819.

The Coronation of Napoleon – This painting by Jacques-Louis David was commissioned by Napoleon and took three years to complete.

The Oath of the Horatii – Another painting by Jacques-Louis David, this one was completed in 1784 and shows a story from Roman history.


As anyone who’s visited the Louvre will tell you, it’s a massive museum. If you had dreams of seeing everything on display, you’d better erase them from your mind – unless you plan to spend several solid days there. Most travelers are interested in seeing only a small fraction of the Louvre’s impressive collection, and with a well-organized tour (either guided or DIY) you can see the Louvre highlights in about a half-day. But if you’re interested in seeing more than just the artworks listed above, you’ll want to allot an entire day (there are several restaurants & cafes in the Louvre – including a Starbucks – so you can take a lunch break without leaving!).

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Having a tour guide for the Louvre is a great way to make sure you’re not missing anything “important,” but you can do a fine job with a self-guided tour as well. The benefit of booking a guided tour is usually that you’ll get to avoid waiting in line – for instance, this Paris Louvre Museum Guided Tour is aptly called “Skip the Line.”

The Louvre itself offers an introductory tour during the peak summer season which lasts 1.5 hours and will introduce you to some of the highlights of the museum.

The English tour is available in July and August on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday three times daily – 11am, 2pm, and 3:45pm. Ask for more information at the ticket office when you buy your tickets.

There are virtual tours on the museum’s website, so you can get a feel for what you want to see before you leave home. And the Louvre website also has excellent (if a bit overwhelming in their level of detail) interactive floor plans – giving you a sense of just how huge the museum really is, while also letting you start planning your visit...Booking Now: Paris Louvre Museum Guided Tour