The Public Establishment of the Musée du Louvre welcomed 8.9 million visitors over the course of 2023. Visitor attendance showed a marked increase (+14% from 2022), starting to approach pre-pandemic levels. The French public demonstrated their steadfast attachment to the museum, drawn by its strong cultural programming, which gives pride of place to contemporary art.

The Louvre is committed to continuously offering new experiences to its visitors and designing new exhibition formats reflecting the evolution of cultural norms. To this end, the museum’s opening hours were extended until 8 p.m. (instead of 6 p.m.) during the holiday season, giving visitors invaluable extra time to explore the nation’s collections. Beginning in April 2024, night openings may be provided on Wednesdays as well, complementing the existing Friday night opening hours.

A daily availability cap of 30,000 tickets per day will be maintained going into 2024, the year of the Olympic Games in Paris. This cap will play an essential role in guaranteeing an optimal experience for our visitors and ensuring the best possible working conditions for our agents.

­VISITOR PROFILE

• 32 % of individual visitors were French, representing by far the largest nationality group.

Among French visitors, over 62% were from Île-de-France, and 38% from other French departments.

• 68 % of visitors were from outside of France. As in 2022, they were mainly from the United States (13%) and from countries bordering France (Italy: 7%, United Kingdom: 5%, Germany: 5%, Spain: 4%). Visitors from Asia very gradually returned to the museum (Japan, South Korea, and China: 2.5%).

• 43 % of the Musée du Louvre’s visitors were under 26 years of age.
  
  
• 40 % of visitors enjoyed free admission in 2023, numbering nearly 3.5 million people.

Note: 6 out of every 10 French visitors are admitted into the museum for free.

• 440,000 visitors came during the museum’s night openings (until 9:45 p.m. on Fridays), of which 95,000 enjoyed the free night opening (first Friday of each month, except in July and August).

• 60 % of the Musée du Louvre’s visitors were touring the museum for the first time.

• 95 % of visitors stated they were ‘satisfied’ or ‘very satisfied’ with their visiting experience.

The Musée National Eugène-Delacroix welcomed 53,800 visitors, who were drawn by the exhibition ‘Delacroix and the Arts: A Mysterious Bridge’. The museum is closed for renovation from 19 September 2023 to March 2024.

CULTURAL PROGRAMMING

• Exhibitions at the Musée du Louvre:

- ‘Things: A History of Still Life’ (Hall Napoléon): 249,520 visitors between 12 October 2022 and 23 January 2023.

- ‘The Splendours of Uzbekistan's Oases’ (Galerie Richelieu): 280,000 visitors between 23 November 2022 and 6 March 2023.

- ‘The Treasury of Notre-Dame Cathedral: From its Origins to Viollet-Le-Duc’ (Galerie Richelieu): 134,000 visitors between 18 October 2022 and 31 December 2022. The exhibit will close on 29 January 2024.

- The exhibition ‘Naples in Paris: the Louvre Hosts the Museo di Capodimonte’, presented in dialogue with the permanent collections, (7 June 2023–8 January 2024) earned the acclaim of both the public and the press (600 mentions in the media), as did the exhibition ‘The Origins of the Sacred Image: Icons from the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts in Kyiv’, on display since 14 June 2023 and extended until 29 January 2024.

• Exhibitions presented outside the Musée du Louvre:

In France:

- ‘Victoires !’ (‘Victories!’) at the Musée national du sport in Nice, from 7 April to 17 September 2023: 41,175 visitors

- ‘Champollion. La voie des hiéroglyphes’ (‘Champollion: the way of hieroglyphs’) at the Louvre-Lens from 28 September 2022 to 23 February 2023: 156,809 visitors

- ‘Paysage. Fenêtre sur la nature’ (‘Landscapes: a Window onto Nature’) at the Louvre-Lens from 29 March to 24 July 2023: 70,914 visitors

In Europe:

- ‘Les fouilles de Byblos’ (‘Excavations in Byblos’) at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, Netherlands, from 14 October 2022 to 12 March 2023: 106,353 visitors

- ‘Les femmes collectionneuses de la famille Rothschild’ (‘The Rothschild collectors: Female patrons and donors par excellence’) at La Boverie Museum in Liège, Belgium, from 20 October 2022 to 26 February 2023: 48,734 visitors

In Japon:

- ‘Amour’ (‘Love’) at the National Art Center in Tokyo from 1 March to 12 June 2023: 449,015 visitors 

- ‘Amour’ (‘Love’) at the Kyocera Museum of Art in Kyoto from 27 June to 24 September 2023: 288,611 visitors

• The new ‘Étés du Louvre’ (‘Louvre Summers’) festival is set to become an unmissable event

This first instalment welcomed 20,000 participants.

- Paris Orchestra concert, directed by Klaus Mäkelä: 2,200 participants

- ‘Les Fantômes de Naples’ (‘Ghosts of Naples’), a show created by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota in collaboration with the Théâtre de la Ville: 2,100 spectators

- ‘Cinéma Paradiso Louvre’, in partnership with mk2 theatres: 10,824 participants

- ‘De Pulcinella à Polichinelle’ (‘Pulcinella to Polichinelle’), a family programme: 1,366 participants

- ‘Static Shot’, a ballet by Maud Le Pladec and the CCN Ballet de Lorraine: 1,900 spectators

- Nu Genea Live Band in concert: 1,702 participants

• Living artists featured at the Louvre

- A triumph for the Nuit Napoli (‘Naples Night’), 15 December 2023: 2,200 tickets sold in less than 24 hours.

- ‘Danses non humaines’ (‘Non-human dances’), a dance performance by Jérôme Bel and Estelle Zhong Mengual, from 5 to 15 October 2023 through the collections of the Denon wing: 900 spectators

- A wide variety of artists and thinkers on feature: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Antoine Compagnon, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Feu! Chatterton, Claude Rutault, Kader Attia, Elizabeth Payton, Barbara Cassin, Isabella Rossellini, Paolo Sorrentino, and more.