--- title: A Trip to the Louvre Is About to Get Much Pricier description: The museum is raising ticket prices from €17 to €22 as prices in Paris balloon ahead of the 2024 Olympics. canonical: https://time.com/6344661/france-louvre-ticket-price-increase/ author: Anna Gordon article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-12-11T13:04:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T16:49:12.866Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: A Trip to the Louvre Is About to Get Much Pricier og:description: The world's largest museum is raising ticket prices from €17 to €22 amid affordability concerns ahead of the 2024 Olympics. og:url: https://time.com/6344661/france-louvre-ticket-price-increase/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9471309d3efba179/698a431a9d83e8f9ecb97f69/GettyImages-1255022601.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: FRANCE-CULTURE-ART-MUSEUM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Trip to the Louvre Is About to Get Much Pricier twitter:description: The world's largest museum is raising ticket prices from €17 to €22 amid affordability concerns ahead of the 2024 Olympics. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9471309d3efba179/698a431a9d83e8f9ecb97f69/GettyImages-1255022601.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Trip to See the Mona Lisa Is About to Get a Lot Pricier by [Anna Gordon](/author/anna-gordon/) ## Anna Gordon Gordon was a reporter for TIME, based in the London bureau. Dec 11, 2023 1:04 PM CUT  Visitors take picture of the Mona Lisa by Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci at the Louvre Museum in Paris, on April 20, 2023. Visitors take picture of the Mona Lisa by Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci at the Louvre Museum in Paris, on April 20, 2023.Loic Venance—AFP via Getty Images by [Anna Gordon](/author/anna-gordon/) ## Anna Gordon Gordon was a reporter for TIME, based in the London bureau. Dec 11, 2023 1:04 PM CUT The Louvre in Paris, the world’s largest museum that is home to over 33,000 works of art, including the Mona Lisa, announced that it will be [raising its prices](https://presse.louvre.fr/plus-dun-visiteur-francais-sur-deux-entre-gratuitement-au-musee-du-louvre/ "undefined") from €17 to €22 ($18 to $24) as of Jan. 15, 2024\. The nearly 30% price rise is expected to help offset rising energy costs and a free ticket program aimed toward local French residents. The price hike will go into effect six months before the start of the 2024 summer olympics in Paris. Though the announcement did not mention the games, the city is expected to host over 10 million people for the Olympics, which will take place between July 20 to Sep. 8\. **Read More:** [_Inside the Radical Effort to Clean Up the Seine_](https://time.com/6261729/seine-clean-up-paris-olympics-2024/ "undefined") In order to cope with increased demand for goods and services during the games, many organizations in Paris are raising their prices. The price of a ticket on the Paris metro will nearly double from €2.10 to €4.00, though the move has [received backlash](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/12/06/paris-officials-warn-against-metro-price-hikes-during-olympics%5F6317634%5F7.html "undefined") from city officials. The French newspaper Le Monde reported that [hotels are increasing their prices](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/sports/article/2023/12/09/paris-2024-olympics-with-hotels-jacking-up-prices-authorities-promise-more-checks%5F6326331%5F9.html "undefined") as well. One report from the Paris tourism office showed that hotel prices are expected to rise by 300% from summer 2023 to summer 2024\. Laurence des Cars, who was appointed as President of the Louvre Museum, said that the price hikes were part of a bigger project designed to make the museum more appealing to Parisians, who were sometimes dissuaded from attending the museum by the large crowds of tourists. This year, they capped the number of daily visitors allowed at the museum to 30,000, a decrease from the 45,000 allowed before the COVID-19 pandemic as an attempt to bring in more locals to the museum. More than half of French visitors don’t pay for their tickets to the Louvre because they are children, E.U. residents under the age of 26, or members of certain professions. I am happy and proud to see the French public, from Ile-de-France and Paris, reclaiming the Louvre Museum,” said Laurence des Cars in [the statement announcing the price hike](https://presse.louvre.fr/plus-dun-visiteur-francais-sur-deux-entre-gratuitement-au-musee-du-louvre/ "undefined").” The quality of this relationship is at the heart of our mission. 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