Visitor guide
How to Visit the Louvre at Night: Hours, Entry and Late Openings (2026)
Open until 9pm on Wednesdays and Fridays, last entry at 8pm, €22 or €32 at the door. Which entrances stay open after 6pm, and what to leave at the hotel.
Louvre Tours Blog
Short answers to the questions people ask before an evening at the Louvre. Which nights is it open late? Is anything after closing? Planning among louvre night tour options? The fares sit side by side there.
Start with how to visit at night if you are choosing a date, then the wing-by-wing post, which splits a two-hour evening between the three wings. The other three go deeper: what the evening does and does not change, bringing children, and whether to pick a Wednesday or a Friday. Longer planning pieces are in the guides.
Wing by wing
The Louvre at Night, Wing by Wing
Denon, Sully and Richelieu in a two-hour evening: what each wing holds, where the crowd gathers, and where it thins out by 8pm.
Straight answers
Is There an After-Hours Louvre Visit? What the Evening Changes
What the phrase promises, what evening visitors report, and what a Wednesday or Friday late opening does change: fewer people, not none.
Families
The Louvre at Night with Kids
Under-18s go free, pushchairs go through the lift, and an evening route that keeps a child going for two hours starts with Egypt.
Which evening
Louvre Late Opening: Wednesday or Friday?
Both close at 9pm. Friday adds the museum's own evening guided visits and a free first Friday most months, and with them a bigger crowd.
The practical answers are in the visitor guide and the FAQs, and every evening tour is compared on Louvre Tours.