Visits to the art workshops of the Louvre Museum

Name: Visits to the art workshops of the Louvre Museum
Start: 2022-09-17T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T14:30:00+02:00
Location: Palais du Louvre et jardin des Tuileries (Musée du Louvre)

Exceptional opening of the art workshops of the Louvre Museum.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

150 people per day per group of 15 people. 5 groups in the morning, 5 groups in the afternoon. Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 September.

Musée du Louvre

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the art workshops of the Louvre Museum exceptionally open their doors to share their know-how. Each visit will allow you to discover the workshops for the editing of drawings, gilding framing, painting decoration, lighting of works, museographic supports, installation of works, marbling, tapestry, carpentry, carpentry and metallery.

About the location

Palais du Louvre et jardin des Tuileries (Musée du Louvre)

Place du carrousel, 75001 Paris, France

Paris
Île-de-France

A former royal garden that by the end of the 17th century had become a public promenade, a place of major memory in the history of France, the Tuileries offer the example of a garden marked by all the centuries, modified under all regimes. Although deprived of the palace of the same name (burned in 1871, demolished in 1883), the Tuileries belong to a vast national domain and have been managed since 2005 by the Louvre Museum. On a Renaissance frame, inherited from the garden created for Catherine de Médicis in 1564-1571, André Le Nôtre drew for Louis XIV, a century later, one of the prototypes of regular garden, "à la française". The Tuileries consist of a low garden divided into a parterre called the "Grand Carré", then of a wooded part, the "Grand Couvert", decorated with green rooms, finally of a large octagonal basin associated with a pair of monumental ramps named the Fer-à-Cheval, from which escapes the perspective towards the Champs-Élysées - this perspective being itself a creat