Louvre Museum
The world's most-visited museum lives inside a 12th-century fortress that became a royal palace.
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The largest museum in the world: roughly 35,000 works across 60,000-plus square meters, from Egyptian antiquities to the Mona Lisa. About 9 million people came in 2025, and it still doesn't feel finished in a day.
What to look for
- In the basement: remnants of Philip II's late-12th-century fortress, still visible beneath the palace that grew over it.
- The Winged Victory of Samothrace at the top of the Escalier Daru, wings mid-flight — displayed there since 1883.
- The Mona Lisa in the Salle des Etats, first displayed there in 1966, noticeably small against the crowd around it.
Closed Tuesdays. Main entrance is I.M. Pei's glass pyramid via Hall Napoléon; the Carrousel du Louvre underground mall is a quieter way in. Metro: Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre.
Louvre Museum is one of 39 sights worth the detour in Paris, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Paris pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Paris
- Eiffel TowerThe 300-metre iron tower Parisian artists petitioned against before it was even finished.
- Notre-Dame de ParisThe spire fell on live TV in April 2019; since December 2024 you can walk back inside.
- Musée d'OrsayVan Gogh and Monet hung inside a Beaux-Arts station built for the Paris–Orléans railway.
- Champs-ÉlyséesA single 1.9-km straight line runs from the Concorde obelisk to the Arc de Triomphe — Paris's ceremonial spine on the Axe historique.
- Place de la BastilleThe prison that lit a revolution is gone — and the mob that stormed it on 14 July 1789 came for gunpowder, not the seven forgotten men inside.
- Arc de TriompheNapoleon ordered it after Austerlitz in 1806; twelve avenues still radiate from the star-shaped square around it.