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Passage Richelieu Tuileries Gardens Entrances Galerie du Carrousel

Pyramid main entrance

Cour Carre

Entrance Porte des Lions

Entrance Porte des Lions The Seine

The Collections

Oriental Antiquities This department presents the civilisations of the Ancient Near-East, which go back to 7 000 BC and succeeded one another in Mesopotamia, Iran and the countries of the Levant, an immense territory stretching from the Mediterranean to India.

Egyptian Antiquities Created by JeanFranois Champollion, this department illustrates the art of Ancient Egypt from two different viewpoints: a chronological circuit, from the earliest times to Cleopatra, and a thematic circuit illustrating certain aspects of Egyptian civilisation. Two sections devoted to Coptic Egypt and Roman Egypt complete the display.

Gallery opening hours A weekly chart species which galleries are open or closed for each day of the week. It can be consulted at the entrance to the Pyramid, at the information desk and on www.louvre.fr

Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities This department includes works from three ancient civilisations: Greece, Etruria and Rome. On the ground oor, a chronological circuit, based on marble statuary, contains works starting from the third millennium BC up to the 6th century AD. The collection on the rst oor is organised according to the techniques and materials used: bronzes and jewellery, silverware, glassware, gurines and terracotta vases.

Paintings The collections in this department cover the history of European painting from the mid13th century to the mid-19th century. They are divided into three main groups: the French School, which has the largest number of works, the Italian and Spanish Schools, and the Northern European Schools (German, Flemish and Dutch Schools).

Sculptures European Sculpture, from the Late Middle Ages to the mid-19th century, is to be found in this department. The collections, which mainly include French works, also contain many signicant pieces from Italy, Spain and Northern Europe.

Objets dart The collections in this department come from every era: items from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, decorative arts from the 17th and 18th centuries, the Crown Jewels, 19th century items and furniture, Napoleon-III apartments, etc.
The 18th century decorative art galleries are under refurbishment until 2011. This major restoration is made possible by the generous support of the High Museum of Art, (Atlanta, Georgia) and Mrs. Anne Cox Chambers, Accenture, UPS, Turner Broadcasting System Inc., The Coca-Cola Company, Delta Air Lines, AXA Art Insurance Corporation and The Sara Giles Moore Foundation.

Arts of Islam Works from various Mediterranean countries, from Iran, Central Asia and India, which formed the lands of Islam are exhibited in this department. Some of the works are from the royal French collections. Most of these are ceramics, metals, ivories, woods, carpets and paintings dating from the 7th to the 19th centuries.
The Arts of Islam galleries will be closed as of January 2008. New exhibition spaces dedicated to these collections will open in the Cour Visconti in 2010.

Prints and Drawings Access to the Graphic Arts Department, consisting of the Drawing Cabinet (more than 100,000 works), the Edmond de Rothschild Collection and an engraved copper plate collection, is by prior arrangement only. The very ne but extremely fragile works are on display in regular temporary exhibitions and on a rota basis in the museums main exhibition rooms.

History of the Louvre and Medieval Louvre Two rooms and an archaeological circuit present the history and architectural development of the Louvre palace.

www.louvre.fr for further information on the collections

Arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas This selection of works, on display in the Louvre since April 2000, belongs to the collection of the muse du quai Branly.

Cultural facilities and services

Practicalities

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Information Desk - Under the Pyramid. - At the Porte des Lions Free Facilities Cloakroom, rst aid, small luggage room, pushchairs, lost and found, etc. Groups Reservations must be made in advance for groups of 7 people or more. Bookings: 01 40 20 57 60 (independent groups) and 01 40 20 51 77 (guided tour by one of the museums guides). Temporary Exhibitions - Under the Pyramid: 9 am to 6 pm (10 pm on Wednesdays and Fridays). Special admission charges. - In the permanent collections: museum opening times. CyberLouvre Consult all the museums multimedia products free of charge, 9 am to 5.45 pm. Sponsored by the Da Nippon Printing Company. To make your visit Disabled Visitors Wheelchairs are available more enjoyable - Multimedia guide: free-of-charge, access a selection of works and map available in French a choice of itineraries with and English: inquire at commentaries in French, the Information Desk. Auditorium (420 seats) Archaeology, art history, literature, cinema and music: symposia, lectures, films, concerts, performances for young people 300 sessions each season. Information on 01 40 20 55 55 and on www.louvre.fr, reservations on 01 40 20 55 00. Programs are posted up at the entrance and are available at the auditorium ticket-ofce. Bookshop, Boutiques and Chalcography Guides, reproductions, catalogues, etc. Areas located under the Pyramid and in the alle du Grand-Louvre. Librairie des Jardins Bookshop Place de la Concorde, Tuileries Gardens. Tel: 01 42 60 61 61. Regulations for Visitors
- Photography and video recording are not allowed in the temporary exhibition rooms. - Photography and video recording are allowed in the permanent exhibition rooms but ash photography and lighting equipment are forbidden. (Cf. article 33 of the Regulations for Visitors). - Smoking, eating and drinking, and the use of cell phones are not allowed in the exhibition rooms.

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Postal address and access - Muse du Louvre, 75058 Paris Cedex 01. Tel: 01 40 20 50 50. Cafs and restaurants - Access: main entrance - Caf Richelieu, large via the Pyramid. Other summer terrace, entrances: via the Porte Richelieu Wing, 1st oor. des Lions (direct access - Caf Marly, outside, to the Arts of Africa, Cour Napolon. Asia, Oceania and the Americas), the Galerie Cafs and tearooms du Carrousel (99, rue de - Le Caf du Louvre, tea, Rivoli or the Carrousel coffee and light meals, Gardens), and the under the Pyramid. - Caf Mollien, light meals, Passage Richelieu (for groups and visitors terrace with view over with museum passes or the Pyramid in summer, going to the auditorium). Denon Wing, 1st oor. - Metro: Palais-Royal- Caf Documentation, Muse du Louvre Alle du Grand-Louvre. (lines 1 and 7). - Underground car park: Cafeteria 7 am to 11 pm, avenue On mezzanine under du Gnral-Lemonnier. the Pyramid. Tel.: 01 42 44 16 32. - Taxis: place du PalaisSandwiches and Royal. takeaways Les Cafs de la pyramide, mezzanine under the Pyramid. Gourmet restaurant Le Grand Louvre, under the Pyramid. Tickets - Full price: 9 Reduced admission fee for evening openings after 6 pm: 6. Free for under 18s, for under 26s on Fridays after 6 pm, for unemployed people and for everybody Opening Hours on the first Sunday of Open every day except every month. Tuesdays and certain Tickets valid all day long public holidays. for the permanent collec- Permanent collections: tions and temporary exhi9 am to 6 pm; evening openings on Wednesdays bitions, except for the Napoleon Hall. Tickets and Fridays until 10 pm. can also be used to visit Closure of the rooms the Delacroix museum on begins at 5.30 pm and the same day. Last 9.30 pm on Wednesdays admissions at 5.15 pm and Fridays. No evening (5 pm at the Porte des openings on public holiLions) and 9.15 pm on days. Wednesdays and Fridays. - Area under the Pyramid open from 9 am to 10 pm. Advance Ticket Sales - At Fnac, Carrefour, - Porte des Lions: open Auchan, Virgin Megastore from 9 am to 5.30 pm, stores, etc. except Tuesdays and - By tel.: 0 892 683 622 Fridays. or 0 825 346 346 - At www.louvre.fr General Information - Information Desk: 01 40 20 53 17. - Website: www.louvre.fr - Disabled visitors: 01 40 20 53 17. handicap@louvre.fr Carte Paris Museum Pass valid 2, 4 or 6 days for entry to 60 museums and monuments in the Paris region. Carte Louvre jeunes for under 26s. Carte Louvre professionnels for group leaders, teachers, artists, art critics Laissez-passer Louvre enseignants for teachers and their students on class visits. Information at the Espace adhsion alle du Grand-Louvre, from 9 am to 5.15 pm, and until 9 pm late-night openings. Tel.: 01 40 20 51 04. Carte de la Socit des amis du Louvre Tel.: 01 40 20 53 34.

English, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and French sign languages. Available for hire at the Richelieu, Sully and Denon entrances.

- Introductory tours in French and English. Guided tours and workshops for children and adults, individually and in groups. Except on Sunday afternoons, freeadmission Sundays and public holidays. Registration at group reception area. - Free visitor brochures of the permanent collections. Available at the information counter. - Films of the Louvre: audiovisual room, under the Pyramid. Program posted up at the entrance. Admission free. The Graphic Arts Departments consulting rooms For information call: 01 40 20 52 51.

Video surveillance is used in the museum

The fees and information in this document are subject to change.

2nd Floor
Germanic Paintings

Self-Portrait (A. Drer) The Card-Sharper (G. de La Tour)

French Paintings Prints and French Drawings German, Flemish and Dutch Paintings German, Flemish and Dutch Drawings
Rubens Room

The Lacemaker (J. Vermeer)

Pierrot, once called Gilles (J.-A. Watteau)

Germanic, Flemish, Dutch, Belgian, Russian, Swiss and Scandinavian Paintings Temporary exhibition halls

Portrait of John II the Good

[do not touch works of art]

Works of art are unique and fragile. They have survived centuries and must be preserved for future generations. Touching, even lightly, a painting, object, sculpture or piece of furniture causes damage. Especially when this gesture is repeated thousands of times. Help us protect our common heritage.

Portrait of MarieMadeleine Guimard (J.-H. Fragonard)

Souvenir from Mortefontaine (C. Corot) The Turkish Bath (J.-A.-D. Ingres)

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to Paintings 79 78

The July Monarchy

The Restoration
77 76 75 74

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to French Sculptures

Gnome with a Snail

Cupboard (A.-Ch. Boulle)

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19th c.
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Renaissance

Middle Ages

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23 22 21 34 to Paintings to Mesopotamia 24 25 26 33 62 63 to Paintings 44 51 50 49 48 45 47 46 20 21

17th c.

Objets dart
Eagle of Abbot Suger

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Napoleon III Apartments 89

87 to French Sculptures

Closed

Egyptian Antiquities Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities Paintings Prints and Drawings Temporary exhibition halls
The Raft of the Medusa (Gricault)

42 36 37 39 40 38 41 60 59 58 57 56 61 55 54 53 52 35

to Pharaonic Egypt, Thematic Circuit

to Mesopotamia

Objets dart 17th and 18th c.

64 65 to French Paintings to Oriental Antiquities to French Paintings 32

Pharaonic Egypt, Chronological Circuit

Richelieu
Napoleon III Apartments

22

Seated Scribe

Sully
Bronzes and precious Objects
la Chapelle Temporary exhibition hall
Mona Lisa (L. de Vinci)

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to Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

24

25

Denon
77 76

The Winged Victory of Samothrace

to Etruscan and Roman Antiquities 75 34

to Italian Sculptures

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Terracotta
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Amenophis IV Akhenaton

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27 to Pharaonic Egypt, Thematic Circuit

The ClubFooted Boy (J. de Ribera)

Large-Format French Paintings

66 7 7

Greek Ceramics

Current events
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Mollien Temporary exhibition halls

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Apollo Gallery

The Wedding Feast at Cana (Vronse)

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English Paintings

Spanish Paintings
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Italian 14 Paintings 17th-18th c. 18 17 16 15

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16th-17th c.

Italian Paintings

13th-15th c.

Coronation Crown of Louis XV (Crown Diamonds)

towards Exit Porte des Lions

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to Objets d'art

Winged Bull, palace of Sargon II

Capital of Apadana

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5th -18th c. French Sculptures

18th -19th c. French Sculptures

Mesopotamia
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Sculptures Oriental Antiquities

Tomb of Philippe Pot
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Cour Marly

Cour Puget

Cour Khorsabad

Sackler Wing
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14 1 to Objets dart 1 bis : multimedia documentation 7 8 9 10 11 12 a 12b 13 15 to Paintings 16 17a

to Pharaonic Egypt, 17 b Chronological 18 b Circuit 18 a 19 20 21

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Egyptian Antiquities Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities Arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas

to Napoleon III Apartments

Antique Iran
D C

Levant

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to Objets dart to Arts of Islam

Richelieu Sully

Levant
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14 17 to Objets d'art to Medieval Louvre

Pharaonic Egypt, Thematic Circuit

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Code of Hammurabi

Sculpture from Chupcuaro (Mexico)

The Dying Slave (Michelangelo)

Statue of An Ghazal to Greek and Roman Bronzes to Medieval Louvre

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Denon
4 16th-19th c. Italian Sculptures
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to Large-Format French Paintings

to the Winged Victory of Samothrace 5 4

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Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

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Greek Antiquities
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Closed

Psyche and Cupid (A. Canova)

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to Pre-classical Greece

Closed

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to Greek Ceramics

Seated Statue of Ramss II

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Entrance Porte des Lions 8

Arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas

7 6 4 5 Resource Centre to Italian and Spanish Paintings 1st Floor

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17th-19th c. Northern European Sculptures

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Aphrodite, known as Vnus de Milo Borghese Gladiator Sarcophagus of a Married Couple

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Horses of Marly (G. Coustou)

Milo of Crotona (P . Puget)

Pyxis of al-Mughira

Closed French Sculptures 20 Cour Marly Cour Puget

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Arts of Islam

Richelieu Temporary exhibition hall

2 3 4 6 5

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Arts of Islam

to Mesopotamia

Richelieu
Sculptures Egyptian Antiquities Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities History of the Louvre The Medieval Louvre Temporary exhibition halls
Tactile Gallery
to 16th-19th Italian Sculptures

History of the Louvre

to Oriental Antiquities (Levant)

Basin, known as the Baptistery of Saint Louis

Medieval Moat

Entrance Exit

Sully

Medieval Louvre
to Greek Antiquities

Temporary exhibition hall

Denon
2 1

Spanish Sculptures 11th -15th c.

11th -15th c. Italian Sculptures

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to Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities 3

Pre-classical Greece Closed

to Greek Antiquities

to Egyptian Antiquities

Coptic Egypt
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Roman Egypt
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St. Mary Magdalene (G. Erhart)

12th-16th c. Northern European Sculptures

Womans Portrait Cycladic Idol Christ and Abbot Mena

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Guide map subject to modications Designed by B. Pell. Design Consultant: Ph. Apeloig. Cover drawing: Guy Nicot, architecte en chef, conservateur du Domaine national du Louvre et des Tuileries. Project coordination: A. Giroux, N. Melissano, muse du Louvre. Translation: Smantis. Photo Credits: RMN, D. Rousselot H. Lewandowski / muse du Louvre. Printed by Technigraphic. January 2008.

(Napoleon Hall)

Information Access to the Collections

American Friends of the Louvre

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Entrance at 99, rue de Rivoli Palais-Royal / muse du Louvre Carrousel du Louvre (shopping area)

Richelieu
Temporary exhibition hall Hall Napolon

Reception area (Napoleon Hall)

Auditorium

The Annenberg Foundation Natixis North America Inc. Lehman Brothers Sotheby's
American Friends of the Louvre a not - for - prot public charity was established in 2002 to strengthen ties between the Louvre and its American public.

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Entrance Exit

Sully
Accueil des groupes Guided Tours

Bookshop

Denon
Denon
1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Espace adhsion (membership desk) Post Office Souvenir shop Caf documentation CyberLouvre Socit des amis du Louvre Shop for children Italian and Spanish Paintings 19th-century French Paintings Apollo Gallery, Crown Jewels Italian, Spanish and Northern European Sculptures Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities Roman Egypt, Coptic Egypt Arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas

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Richelieu
14th-17th-century French Paintings German, Flemish and Dutch Paintings, Northern Schools Medieval, Renaissance, 17th and 19th-century Decorative Arts Napoleon III Apartments French Sculptures Mesopotamia, Antique Iran Islamic Art

Sully
17th, 18th, 19th-century French Paintings 17th, 18th, 19th-century Drawings and Pastels 17th, 18th-century Decorative Arts Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities Pharaonic Egypt Ancient Iran, Arabia, Levant History of the Louvre, Medieval Louvre