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Louvre Evening Tour With Yves Private Tour Guide

Avoid the crowd and enjoy a Louvre evening private tour. Friday evening, the Louvre is open until 9:30 PM. Why visit the Louvre during the most crowded hours when you can enjoy a quiet after-hour private tour?

The Louvre is the most famous and most visited museum in the world. Long entry lines are not the sole problem; crowded or very crowded galleries are another, often not only in high season. It may partially or totally spoil your Louvre experience.

The crowd at Mona Lisa at pick hours during day time. Credit Brittany Chastagnier Unsplash.

Given this situation, a private Louvre evening tour is the best choice to make the most of your stay at the Louvre.

In the evening after 6PM the line for security control is usually much shorter. 

Instead of having a more and more crowded museum when doing your tour during normal daytime,

in the evening, the Louvre will become quieter and quieter while your tour goes on.

Furthermore, the crowds will not only become smaller and smaller but will change to more and more art Lovers.

You will experience another more peaceful Louvre, having even probably an impression of intimacy at the end of the evening.  

In fall and winter, this feeling of intimacy will be reinforced by the absence of daylight (there are a lot of crystal roofs in the Louvre).

In an evening tour, accessing the most famous works of art of the Louvre will, most of the time, be much easier.

A Louvre Evening Tour is your best chance to approach the Venus de Milo and, even more, the Mona Lisa without being totally overwhelmed by the crowd.

Usually, after 9 PM or 9:15 PM, they are really fewer people in front of Mona Lisa, so at the end of the tour or just after it, you will optimize your chance to see it at the best possible conditions

An evening tour is the best solution to make the most of your Louvre discovery. Don’t miss it, furthermore, if it is a once-in-a-lifetime experience!

During winter, the special evening experience with continue after your Louvre Tour.

You will fully enjoy the charm of the city of light at night when leaving the Louvre as the famous museum is in the very center of Paris.

The Comédie Française at night, just beside the Louvre.

The most crowded wing is the Denon one. There are the Victory of Samothrace, Mona Lisa, and the other Da Vincci masterpieces, the jewel of the French Crown, and the most famous 19th-century French paintings (Coronation of Napoléon, Raft of the Medusa, etc.).

Then comes the Sully Wing where are the Venus de Milo and the ancient Egypt collection.

At nightfall, a nearly empty Daru Staircase (Denon Wing) with the Nike of Samothrace in the background.

Enjoy the Italian Renaissance Masterpieces till the end in a more practicable Great Gallery to discover the works of Caravaggio which are closing the period. Credit: The Yorck Project – GNU Free Documentation License.

All our Louvre tours may be booked as an evening private tour if the corresponding gallery is open on Friday (always check that before all, as the Louvre opening calendar is far to be unchangeable).
There is an important disequilibrium between the Louvre galleries. Meanwhile, at pick hours in Denon wing, the Great Gallery with its Italian paintings is always very crowded; at the same time, French or Dutch & Flemish painting galleries in Richelieu or Sully wings will probably be nearly empty.

So if you book a French or Dutch & Flemish painting tour on Friday night, we will probably be nearly alone in the related galleries where you will have the impression having the Louvre Museum only for you. An amazing experience.

Women alone in Marie de Medici’s Cycle by Peter Paul Rubens. Richelieu wing, Louvre.

At the end of the tour the room where is Mona Lisa is becoming more practicable, a great opportunity to discover the Louvre Venetian Masterpieces which are also there, as the Amazing “Man with a Glove” by Titian. Credit: The Yorck Project – GNU Free Documentation License.