The Louvre: in 2023, the museum changes its opening hours and limits gauges

Endless queues at the Louvre are soon to be something from the past! The museum’s president-director Laurence des Cars told Journal des Arts in an interview 2023 will be a year of change for the Louvre. This year, the museum – one of the most visited in the world – will limit entrance to 30,000 visitors at the same time. To compensate the shortfall, the museum will stay open for an extra hour.

Therefore, the Louvre will no longer close at 6 p.m. as it did in 2022, but at 7 p.m. According to des Cars, it will enable the museum to breathe a little bit more. To set up this change, 90 new agents have been hired by the Louvre.

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In 2022, the museum generated 7.8 million visits, more than in 2021, but still under the pre-covid average (10 million visitors). The 30,000-visitor gauge is more or less the place’s current average of visitors.

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