Louvre Virtual Tour: Official Online Visits and Photos Inside

Yes, you can take a free Louvre virtual tour on the museum’s official website: its online visits page (louvre.fr/visites-en-ligne) lets you step into rooms of the museum, see the palace façades and walk through exhibitions from the Petite Galerie. To see photos of the works, the official tool is the collections.louvre.fr database, also free, with more than 480,000 illustrated records, including works that are not on display.

Can you take a virtual tour of the Louvre?

Yes. As of October 27, 2026, the Louvre’s official online visits page offers the following, all free and without registration:

Official resource	What it is
Virtual visits	Tours that take you into rooms of the museum, show the palace façades and let you “admire the view”.
Venus d’ailleurs. Matériaux et objets voyageurs	Petite Galerie exhibition on materials and objects that traveled between distant worlds.
Figure d’artiste	Exhibition on artists who sought to be more than craftsmen, with works by Delacroix, Rembrandt and Tintoretto.
Théâtre du pouvoir	How political power has been depicted from antiquity to today.
Corps en mouvement	Dance and movement in art.
Mythes fondateurs. D’Hercule à Dark Vador	Myths in art, from drawing to film.
Le Louvre chez vous	Live concerts and talks, podcasts, stories for children (Petit Louvre) and a virtual reality experience about the Mona Lisa.

The titles and explanations are in French on the official website. Some 2020 guides mentioned virtual tours of the Egyptian department, the medieval Louvre and the Apollo Gallery; they no longer appear on the online visits page, so do not count on them.

Where can you see photos of the Louvre’s works?

At collections.louvre.fr, the official collections database. The museum launched it on March 26, 2021, with more than 480,000 records, about three quarters of its holdings, and it is free. Each record includes photos, date, artist, dimensions, inventory number, provenance and, when the work is on display, the wing, level and room.

It is the most reliable way to find out where a work is before you go. For example, the record for Liberty Leading the People gives room 700 in the Denon wing, and the one for the Code of Hammurabi gives room 227 in the Richelieu wing. The museum itself warns that room locations may be out of date while it renews its management system, so confirm them on the Louvre map as well.

What is the Louvre Museum like inside?

Inside, the Louvre is a former royal palace divided into three wings, Richelieu, Sully and Denon, joined under the Louvre Pyramid, which is the entrance hall. According to Spanish Wikipedia, the complex covers about 210,000 m², of which 60,500 m² are galleries, and displays some 35,000 works.

Some interiors worth recognizing before you go:

• The red rooms of the Denon wing (including rooms 700 and 702), with red and gold decoration from 1863, where Liberty Leading the People and The Coronation of Napoleon hang.
• The Salle des États (room 711), with the Mona Lisa on one wall and The Wedding at Cana on the opposite one.
• The Apollo Gallery, with the vault Delacroix finished in 1851.
• The remains of the medieval Louvre, on level -1 of the Sully wing.
• The Crypt of the Sphinx (room 338), the way into the Egyptian antiquities.

Can you take photos in the Louvre?

Yes, for private use. The museum’s visitor rules say that in the permanent collection rooms you may take photos and film for private use, but selfie sticks, flash and other lighting devices are not allowed. In some temporary exhibition rooms, photographing or filming certain works may be prohibited; look for the signs in each room.

What can a virtual tour not replace?

A virtual tour cannot replace the scale of the works. On screen, The Wedding at Cana and the Mona Lisa fit in the same frame; in the room, Veronese’s painting measures 6.77 × 9.94 m and Leonardo’s portrait barely 77 × 53 cm. Nor does it reproduce the route: the database tells you where each work is, but not how long it takes to walk from one to the next.

Use it to prepare your visit, not to replace it. Look up the records for the works that interest you, note the rooms and arrive with a reserved ticket: general admission costs 22 € for residents of the European Economic Area and 32 € for everyone else, and the museum is closed on Tuesdays. If you would rather not plan anything and be taken around the main works, compare the Louvre Museum tickets; and for the rest of the logistics, read how to plan your visit to the Louvre Museum.