Louvre Museum
The Louvre is France's national art museum, housed in the former royal Louvre Palace in Paris. Opened in 1793 during the French Revolution, its collection of around half a million objects spans eight departments, from Egyptian and Near Eastern antiquities to European painting and sculpture. It is the world's most-visited art museum, home to the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo and the Winged Victory of Samothrace, alongside a changing programme of temporary exhibitions.
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18 exhibitions
Ingres and Fashion
Florence Viguier-Dutheil
The Musée Ingres Bourdelle in Montauban presents a previously unseen exhibition on Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's relationship with fashion. Through an exceptional selection of more than 200 works, including paintings,…
Mythologies
Commissariat
First temporary exhibition since the reopening of the Musée Bonnat-Helleu in Bayonne. "Mythologies" is conceived in partnership with the Louvre Museum and with the exceptional participation of the musée du quai Branly –…
Affinities
Annabelle Collinet
Affinities are bonds of both kinship and closeness – a fitting term to evoke the relationship between the Departments of Islamic Art and of the Decorative Arts. These works have not only circulated between East and West…
Affinities
Annabelle Collinet
Affinities are bonds of both kinship and closeness – a fitting term to evoke the relationship between the Departments of Islamic Art and of the Decorative Arts. These works have not only circulated between East and West…
Masterpieces of the Renaissance from the Louvre Museum
Oriane Lavit
This exhibition, curated by a French-Japanese team, aims to explore some of the defining aspects of the rich complexity of Renaissance art that flourished in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. Through some fifty…
Hosts at the Louvre
Kader Attia and Elizabeth Peyton are the 2024–2026 Hosts at the Louvre. Kader Attia (born 1970 in Dugny, France; lives and works in Paris and Berlin) is known for his work at the frontier of shape and thought, between…
The Guests of the Louvre
From 2024 to summer 2026, Kader Attia and Elizabeth Peyton are the Guests of the Louvre. Kader Attia (born in 1970 in Dugny, lives and works in Paris and Berlin) is known for his work at the boundary of forms and ideas,…
Roman Art at the Louvre
Isabel Bonora Andujar
The Musée de la Romanité, in collaboration with the Louvre Museum, presents an exhibition on the place of art in Roman civilisation, built around an exceptional selection of ancient works. Roman civilisation is…
Michel Lacoste’s donation to the musée du Louvre
Anne Foray-Carlier
Thanks to the generosity of Michel Lacoste, a hundred precious metalwork pieces entered the collection of the Musée du Louvre in November 2025 through a planned donation of present assets. These varied artworks…
The Michel Lacoste Donation to the Louvre Museum
Anne Foray-Carlier
Thanks to the generosity of Michel Lacoste, a set of one hundred pieces of silverware was the subject of a donation in November 2025 of present assets, to take effect in the future, to the Louvre Museum. These works, of…
From the Louvre: Masterpieces of Islamic Art
Souraya Noujaim
On the occasion of an exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art of the Smithsonian Institution, some twenty emblematic works from the Department of Islamic Arts tell the story of France and its ties with the…
Crosscurrents
Judith Henon-Raynaud
For the first time in Singapore, the Louvre presents around one hundred masterpieces from the collections of the Department of Islamic Arts, placed in dialogue with major works from the Asian Civilisations Museum. This…
Sculpting Colour
Valérie Carpentier-Vanhaverbeke
‘Sculpting Colour’, presented at the same time and in the same space as the exhibition on the painter Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664), and with collaboratively designed scenography, invites visitors to take a close,…
Sculpting Colour
Valérie Carpentier-Vanhaverbeke
Staged at the same time and in the same space as the monographic exhibition devoted to the painter Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664), with a jointly designed scenography that creates interplay between the two sets of…
Zurbarán
Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau
Francisco de Zurbarán, along with Diego Velázquez and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, is considered one of the greatest Spanish painters of the 17th century. At first considered a Caravaggista with a focus on monastic…
Primeval Waters
Crossed by the only two biblical ‘rivers of paradise’ known today, whose importance and danger may have inspired the Flood myth, ancient Mesopotamia was also the place where irrigation was first invented and developed.…
Primordial Water
Crossed by the only two rivers known from the biblical paradise, whose importance and dangers may have inspired the myth of the flood, ancient Mesopotamia is also the land where irrigation was first invented and…
Louvre Photo
Quentin Bajac
The Louvre opened just a few decades before the invention of photography. Combining reality and the world of imagination, journeying through both time and space, the museum would go on to become a wellspring of…