Address: rue de Rivoli & quai des Tuileries, 1er
Ticket Price: adult/child €15/free (Tickets are valid for the whole day, meaning you can come and go)
Operation Hours: 9am-6pm Mon, Thu, Sat & Sun, to 9.45pm Wed & Fri
Metro/RER: Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre
Metro/RER: Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre
Few art galleries are as prized or as daunting as the Musée du Louvre – one of the world’s largest and most diverse museums. Showcasing 35,000 works of art, it would take nine months to glance at every piece, rendering advance planning essential.
Works of art from Europe form the permanent exhibition, alongside priceless collections of Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Islamic art and antiquities – a fascinating presentation of the evolution of Western art up through the mid-19th century
You need to queue twice to get in: once for security and then again to buy tickets. The longest queues are outside the Grande Pyramide; use the Carrousel du Louvre entrance (99 rue de Rivoli or direct from the metro).
A Paris Museum Pass or Paris City Passport gives you priority; buying tickets in advance (on the Louvre website) will also help expedite the process.
Self-guided thematic trails range from Louvre masterpieces and the art of eating to family-friendly topics. Download trail brochures in advance from the website.
Another good option is to rent a Nintendo 3DS multimedia guide (€5; ID required). More formal, English-language guided tours (Contact: 01 40 20 52 63; adult/child €12/9; Operating Hours: 11am & 2pm except 1st Sun of month) depart from the Hall Napoléon. Reserve a spot up to 14 days in advance or sign up on arrival at the museum.
In late 2014, the Louvre embarked on a 30-year renovation plan, with the aim of modernising the museum to make it more accessible. Phase 1 increased the number of main entrances in order to reduce security wait times. It also revamped the central Hall Napoléon to vastly improve what was previously bewildering chaos. Important changes to come include increasing the number of English-language signs and artwork texts to aid navigation.
Palais du Louvre
The Louvre today rambles over four floors and through three wings: the Sully Wing creates the four sides of the Cour Carrée (literally ‘Square Courtyard’) at the eastern end of the complex; the Denon Wing stretches 800m along the Seine to the south; and the northern Richelieu Wing skirts rue de Rivoli. The building started life as a fortress built by Philippe-Auguste in the 12th century – medieval remnants are still visible on the Lower Ground Floor (Sully). In the 16th century it became a royal residence, and after the Revolution, in 1793, it was turned into a national museum. At the time, its booty was no more than 2500 paintings and objets d’art.
Over the centuries French governments amassed the paintings, sculptures and artefacts displayed today. The ‘Grand Louvre’ project, inaugurated by the late President Mitterrand in 1989, doubled the museum’s exhibition space, and both new and renovated galleries have since opened, including the state-of-the-art Islamic art galleries (Lower Ground Floor, Denon) in the stunningly restored Cour Visconti.
Priceless Antiquities
Whatever your plans are, don’t rush by the Louvre’s astonishing cache of treasures from antiquity: both Mesopotamia (ground floor, Richelieu) and Egypt (ground and 1st floors, Sully) are well represented, as seen in the Code of Hammurabi (Room 3, ground floor, Richelieu) and the Seated Scribe (Room 22, 1st floor, Sully). Room 12 (ground floor, Sackler Wing) holds impressive friezes and an enormous two-headed-bull column from the Darius Palace in ancient Iran, while an enormous seated statue of Pharaoh Ramesses II highlights the temple room (Room 12, Sully).
Also worth a look are the mosaics and figurines from the Byzantine empire (lower ground floor, Denon), and the Greek statuary collection, culminating with the world’s most famous armless duo, the Venus de Milo (Room 16, ground floor, Sully) and the Winged Victory of Samothrace (top of Daru staircase, 1st floor, Denon).
French & Italian Masterpieces
The 1st floor of the Denon Wing, where the Mona Lisa is found, is easily the most popular part of the Louvre – and with good reason. Rooms 75 through 77 are hung with monumental French paintings, many iconic: look for the Consecration of the Emperor Napoléon I (David), The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault) and Grande Odalisque (Ingres).
Rooms 1, 3, 5 and 8 are also must-visits. Filled with classic works by Renaissance masters (Raphael, Titian, Uccello, Botticini), this area culminates with the crowds around the Mona Lisa. But you’ll find plenty else to contemplate, from Botticelli’s graceful frescoes (Room 1) to the superbly detailed Wedding Feast at Cana (Room 6).
Mona Lisa
Easily the Louvre’s most admired work (and the world’s most famous painting) is Leonardo da Vinci’s La Joconde (in French; La Gioconda in Italian), the lady with that enigmatic smile known as Mona Lisa (Room 6, 1st floor, Denon).
Mona (monna in Italian) is a contraction of madonna, and Gioconda is the feminine form of the surname Giocondo. Canadian scientists used infrared technology to peer through paint layers and confirm Mona Lisa’s identity as Lisa Gherardini, wife of Florentine merchant Francesco de Giocondo. Scientists also discovered that her dress was covered in a transparent gauze veil typically worn in early 16th-century Italy by pregnant women or new mothers; it’s surmised that the work was painted to commemorate the birth of her second son around 1503, when she was aged about 24.
The Pyramid Inside & Out
Almost as stunning as the masterpieces inside is the 21m-high glass pyramid designed by Chinese-born American architect IM Pei that bedecks the main entrance to the Louvre in a dazzling crown. Beneath Pei’s Grande Pyramide is the Hall Napoléon, the main entrance area, comprising an information booth, temporary exhibition hall, bookshop, souvenir store, cafe and auditoriums.
网站：www.louvre.fr
地址：rue de Rivoli＆quai des Tuileries，1er
门票价格：成人/儿童十五欧元/免费（门票全天有效，意味着您可以来去）
营业时间：周一，周四，周六和周日上午九点至下午六点，周三和周五下午九点四十五分
地铁/ RER：Palais Royal-MuséeduLouvre
很少有艺术画廊像卢浮宫（MuséeduLouvre）一样珍贵或令人生畏，这是世界上最大和最多样化的博物馆之一。展示三十五千件艺术品，需要花费九个月的时间来浏览每件作品，这使得提前计划变得至关重要。
来自欧洲的艺术作品构成了永久性的展览，以及无价的美索不达米亚，埃及，希腊，罗马和伊斯兰艺术品和古董收藏品 - 这是19世纪中叶西方艺术发展的迷人表现。
参观
巴黎博物馆通行证或巴黎城市护照优先考虑;提前购买门票（在卢浮宫网站上）也将有助于加快这一过程。
自我引导的主题曲目包括卢浮宫的杰作，饮食艺术和家庭友好的主题。从网站上提前下载小册子。
另一个不错的选择是租用Nintendo 3DS多媒体指南（五欧元;需要ID）。更正式的英语导游（联系方式：01 40 20 52 63;成人/儿童十二/九欧元;营业时间：上午十一点和下午两点，除了一月的第一个太阳）从拿破仑大厅出发。提前十四天预订，或在抵达博物馆时注册。
2014年底，卢浮宫开始实施一项为期三十年的翻新计划，旨在使博物馆现代化，使其更加便利。第一阶段增加了主要入口的数量，以减少安全等待时间。它还改造了拿破仑中央大厅，以大大改善之前令人困惑的混乱局面。随之而来的重大变化包括增加英语标志和艺术品文本的数量以帮助导航。
卢浮宫（Palais du Louvre）
今天的卢浮宫在四层楼和三翼展开：Sully Wing在该建筑的东端创造了CourCarrée（字面意思为“Square Courtyard”）的四面; Denon Wing沿塞纳河向南延伸八百米;和Richelieu Wing北部的裙子rue de Rivoli。该建筑起源于菲利普 - 奥古斯特在十二世纪建造的堡垒 - 在底层（Sully）仍然可以看到中世纪的遗迹。在十六世纪它成为皇家住所，并且在革命之后，在1793年，它变成了国家博物馆。当时，它的战利品不超过两千五百件绘画和艺术品。
几个世纪以来，法国政府积累了今天展出的绘画，雕塑和手工艺品。由已故总统密特朗于1989年开幕的“大卢浮宫”项目使博物馆的展览空间翻了一番，新建和翻新的画廊自此开业，包括最先进的伊斯兰艺术画廊（底层，天龙）在令人惊叹的Cour Visconti修复中。
无价的古物
无论您的计划是什么，都不要急于卢浮宫惊人的古代珍宝：美索不达米亚（底层，黎塞留）和埃及（地面和一楼，苏利）都有很好的代表性，如汉谟拉比法典所示（房间三，底层，Richelieu）和坐着的Scribe（Sully一楼二十二室）。 十二号房间（Sackler Wing底层）拥有令人印象深刻的楣和巨大的双头公牛柱，来自伊朗古代的Darius宫殿，而法老拉美西斯二世的巨大座位雕像突出了寺庙房间（12号房间，Sully）。
另外值得一看的还有来自拜占庭帝国（地下层，Denon）的马赛克和小雕像，以及希腊雕像系列，最终与世界上最着名的无臂二人组合，维纳斯米洛（十六楼，地下，Sully）和Samothrace的胜利（Daron楼梯顶部，Denon一楼）。
法国和意大利的杰作
发现蒙娜丽莎的天龙翼一楼很容易成为卢浮宫最受欢迎的部分 - 这是有充分理由的。 七十五至七十七号房间挂着巨大的法国画作，许多标志性画作：寻找拿破仑一世（大卫），美杜莎筏（Géricault）和Grande Odalisque（安格尔）的奉献。
客房一,三,五和八也是必游之地。这个区域充满了文艺复兴时期大师（拉斐尔，提香，Uccello，Botticini）的经典作品，并以蒙娜丽莎周围的人群为高潮。但是从波提切利的优雅壁画（一号房间）到Cana（六号房间）精美的婚礼盛宴，你会发现其他许多值得思考的东西。
蒙娜丽莎
卢浮宫最受尊敬的作品（以及世界上最着名的作品）很容易就是莱昂纳多达芬奇的La Joconde（法语;意大利语中的La Gioconda），这位神秘迷人的女士被称为Mona Lisa（Denon一楼6号房间）。
Mona（意大利语中的monna）是麦当娜的缩影，Gioconda是姓Giocondo的女性形象。加拿大科学家使用红外技术来描绘油漆层并确认蒙娜丽莎的身份为Lisa Gherardini，佛罗伦萨商人Francesco de Giocondo的妻子。科学家还发现，她的衣服上覆盖着一个透明的纱布面纱，通常由孕妇或新妈妈在十六世纪早期的意大利穿着。据推测，这件作品的绘画是为了纪念她的第二个儿子在1503年左右出生，当时她的年龄约为二十四岁。
内外金字塔
内部的杰作几乎与二十一世纪高的玻璃金字塔一样令人惊叹，这个金字塔由中国出生的美国建筑师贝聿铭（IM Pei）设计，在一座耀眼的皇冠上矗立着卢浮宫的主要入口。在Pei的Grande Pyramide下面是拿破仑大厅，主入口区，包括信息亭，临时展览厅，书店，纪念品商店，咖啡馆和礼堂。
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