Louvre Museum to hike Ticket Price to 22 Euros

Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Louvre Museum to hike Ticket Price to 22 Euros

Ticket prices are set to climb from €17 to €22 in January 2024, an increase of nearly 30 percent.

The new ticket price, which comes into effect from 15 January, is the first time the museum has raised its prices since 2017. It comes six months before the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, which are expected to flood the French capital with tourists from around the world.

International visitors remain the most valuable for the museum, which offers various discounts for residents of France, including for under-26s, people with disabilities, jobseekers and people receiving welfare, teachers and people working in the arts.

More than half of all French visitors entered the museum for free in 2023, the Louvre stressed in a statement announcing the price increase. The museum, whose exhibition space covers nearly 73,000 square metres, said it had seen its energy bills rise by 88 percent.

Visitor numbers have been capped at 30,000 per day since mid-2022 to avoid overcrowding, a limit that the Louvre said would remain in place next year for the sake of the palace and its collection as well as for visitors themselves.

Before Covid-19, as many as 50,000 visitors used to stream into the museum each day. But the museum is considering staying open for a second evening each week from April 2024, it said. Currently it only opens late on Fridays, but if an agreement is reached with staff and unions it could also remain open on Wednesday evenings.

Stephanie Cime

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