8.7 million visitors to the Louvre in 2024

« The Louvre welcomes almost 9 million visitors each year. Our ambition is to provide, for each of them, whatever the link they have with art and creation, an encounter rich in meaning and pleasure with our collections and this monument like no other. Over the coming years, we will continue to deploy our efforts to invent new paths towards œWorks from the Louvre and the Tuileries garden, to marvel, be inspired, learn, recharge your batteries, and open up ».

Laurence des Cars, President and Director of the Louvre Museum.

The Louvre welcomed 8.7 million visitors in 2024. It thus maintains its attendance at the level of that of 2023 (8.9 million visitors), in the very unique context of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games which offered Louvre has global visibility, placing the entire estate – which also includes the Tuileries Gardens – in first place in the list of the most important heritage sites and museums in the world.

2024 ATTENDANCE IN DETAILS

23% of individual visitors are Frenchwhich is, by far, the most represented nationality.

Among them, more than 13% are from the Ile-de-France region and 10% come from other departments.

77% of visitors are foreigners.

As in 2023, they mainly come from the United States (13%) and border countries (Italy, United Kingdom and Germany 5%, Spain 4%). Chinese visitors are beginning a significant return: 6% of visitors in 2024 (vs. 2.4% of visitors in 2023).

28% of visitors benefited from free access in 2024.

Please note: 65% of French people enter the museum doors for free.

41% of visitors to the Louvre Museum have under 26 years old.
66% of the public discovered the Louvre Museum for the first time.
92% of visitors say they are satisfied or very satisfied with their visit ¹.

Reopened in March 2024 after six months of work, the Eugène-Delacroix national museumwhich has been part of the public establishment of the Louvre Museum since 2004, welcomed 56,000 visitors, who were able to discover the exhibition “Ingres and Delacroix. Artists’ objects” and the hanging “Naked as dressed. Delacroix and clothing.

REMINDER OF THE LOUVRE PROGRAMMING IN 2024

The Louvre at the cœheart of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 (JOP2024)

This year was marked by the holding of the JOP2024 in Paris, which the Louvre Museum celebrated through a rich cultural season recalling the strong links that unite its collections and the Olympic spirit (exhibition “Olympism. A modern invention, an ancient heritage”, sports visits by Mehdi Kerkouche, puzzle trail “Five museums in games”, mediation program “Words of athletes”…).

The Louvre Museum welcomed 331,760 visitors between July 27 and August 11, 2024 (Olympic Games) and 275,500 visitors between August 28 and September 8, 2024 (Paralympic Games). In total, the museum welcomed 1.3 million visitors in July and August 2024 (-14% vs July-August 2023).

The museum was integrated into the security perimeter set up by the authorities during the 9 days preceding the opening ceremony and remained closed on July 25 and 26, 2024.

Attendance was very high outside the museum, particularly due to the installation of the Olympic cauldron on the Tuileries grounds, which enjoyed great popular success.

Two Olympic events (road cycling on August 3 and 4, 2024 and marathon on August 10 and 11, 2024) crossed the domain, offering millions of viewers magnificent images of the Pyramid and the Louvre Palace. Whether during the passage of the flame through the museum on July 14, 2024 or during the opening ceremony, the Louvre museum, its iconic works and its palatial architecture benefited from great visibility (25 million viewers in France for the opening ceremony).

The Louvre, a contemporary place of art

In connection with the “Figures du Fou” exhibition, the show “Little Players”, created by François Chaignaud, was presented from November 4 to 16, 2024 in the medieval Louvre: 1,945 spectators

The presence of many other artists, visual artists, musicians and thinkers invited to look at the museum’s collections: Mohamed Bourouissa, Klaus Mäkelä, Simone Fattal, Birds on a Wire, Adonis, Feu! Chatterton, Luc Tuymans, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Camille Henrot, etc.

Exhibitions of the year

– “The Treasure of Notre-Dame de Paris. Origins in Viollet-le-Duc” (Galerie Richelieu): 210,000 visitors between October 18, 2023 and January 29, 2024.

– “See Van Eyck again. Encounter with a masterpiece: The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin” (Chapel room): 128,000 visitors from March 20 to June 17, 2024.

– “Olympism. A modern invention, an ancient heritage” (Galerie Richelieu): 336,000 visitors between April 24 and September 16, 2024.

– Presented in the heart of Anne of Austria’s apartments, the exhibition “Masterpieces from the Torlonia Collection” (June 26, 2024 – January 6, 2025) welcomed 705,000 visitors.

– “Figures of the Fool. From the Middle Ages to the Romantics” (Hall Napoléon): 172,000 visitors between October 16 and December 31, 2024. The exhibition continues until February 3, 2025.

– “See Watteau again. An actor without a reply: Pierrot, known as Le Gilles” (chapel room): 84,000 visitors between October 16 and December 31, 2024. The exhibition continues until February 3, 2025.

The Louvre elsewhere

– “Printed Matters. La Chalcographie du Louvre” presented from October 27, 2023 to March 31, 2024 at the Dijon Consortium: 8,700 visitors.

– “Husband in Syria. Renaissance of a city in the 3rd millennium” presented from September 16, 2023 to January 7, 2024 at the Mariemont museum (Belgium): 13,267 visitors.

– “Husband in Syria. Renaissance of a city in the 3rd millennium” presented from February 7 to May 26, 2024 at the National and University Library of Strasbourg: 12,700 visitors.