Louvre Museum

The former royal palace and now most visited museum is perhaps the ultimate cultural pilgrimage, home to one of the largest and finest collections in the world. It is estimated it would take 200 days to visit the Louvre in its entirety, on the basis of spending no more than thirty seconds on each piece. The congregation of crowds in front of the Mona Lisa or by the iconic glass pyramid outside leaves plentiful room for visitors to enjoy some of the museum’s 35,000 works of art and artefacts, which span millennia. Other exciting features include a collaboration between the Louvre and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where ten major works from the Met’s Near Eastern Antiquities collection are on display in the Louvre’s permanent galleries until September 2025, creating a unique dialogue between the two collections.