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Groups
Groups may include 7 to 25 participants, with paid or free admission, accompanied by a group leader.
A school/extracurricular group may include 7 to 35 participants (including group leaders). School/extracurricular groups must have:
- 1 group leader per 5 preschool students
- 1 group leader per 10 elementary or middle-school students
- 1 group leader per 15 secondary school students
- 2 group leaders per group of university students
Chairs are available throughout the museum if you need to take a break during the visit. You cannot eat or drink in the exhibition rooms. For lunch, you can take a picnic in the Carrousel Garden or make a booking at one of the restaurants that accepts groups.
Whether visiting with an official guide or not, you are expected to ensure that your group is following the museum rules and regulations. Visitors are not allowed to touch the artworks or shout or run in the museum.
Speaking to the group in the Salle des États and stopping with the group in the side corridors is forbidden, to avoid blocking room access. It is possible to cross the room without stopping as a group; and group tour participants can freely return to the room on their own following the guided tour.
In order to ensure the most enjoyable experience for all of our visitors, group visits to the ‘A New Look at Cimabue’ and "The Experience of Nature, Art in Prague at the Court of Rudolf II" exhibition are not permitted.
Due to the configuration of rooms inside the museum, we ask tour guides to avoid speaking publicly in rooms 607 to 632 in order to ensure optimal visiting conditions throughout the ‘LOUVRE COUTURE’ exhibition.Individuals with the right to speak publicly may speak publicly to their group inside the museum’s galleries.
By virtue of article 15 of the Musée du Louvre’s visit regulations, the right to speak publicly is granted to holders of the carte de guide-conférencier conferred according to the applicable regulatory conditions of article L221-1 of the French Code of Tourism; guides from French national museums; curators of French or foreign museums with professional ID; CMN lecturers; teaching staff and TDO leaders from the École du Louvre and French or foreign teachers leading their students; and Carte CLEF and CLEF+ holders for an audience classed as ‘priority’ by the EPML, provided they have been trained by the museum’s Education Democratisation and Accessibility Department.The right to speak publicly is granted when a group booking is made. Individual admission tickets must also be booked for each group member.
Special equipment is available for children and disabled visitors at the visitor assistance area (wheelchairs, prams, etc.). If you have any problems, please speak to a member of staff under the Pyramid or at the group reception area. Please find all the information in the 'Accessibility' pages.
Group visits must be booked in advance via the online request form on the Musée du Louvre website: https://contact.louvre.fr/hc/en-gb/requests/new
Only requests submitted via this form will be considered. Groups without a reservation will not be granted access to the museum galleries. Visitors with free admission are advised to book a time slot as soon as possible.
If you wish to book a guided visit or other activity, see the booking calendar on the museum’s ‘visit as a group’ pages.Louvre Educational & Training Card (CLEF and CLEF+) holders wishing to book a guided visit or other activity enjoy the advantage of a 15-day priority booking period.
Tuesday visits are restricted to Louvre Educational & Training Card (CLEF or CLEF+) holders.