Paris Museum Pass - Louvre

Reserve the Louvre on their website. You can use any ticket/pass number you like, invent something, to make the reservation. Reservations are not cross-referenced to your actual pass number. Pass holders are limited to one entrance.

The only line you skip is the ticket line, which anyone, purchasing tickets in advance, also skips.

the museum pass provides no benefit not conferred by an ordinary ticket -- you skip no lines that other ticket holders don't skip. Since pretty much everyone comes with a ticket these days, security lines for ticket/pass holders are longer than they used to be.

Your best bet is probably the carousel entrance which when I was there in October only accepted entry for those with tickets/passes.

Also be aware that they will scan your timed entry ticket and then want to scan the Paris Museum Pass also. So have both available. The timed entry is required even if you have the pass, so the entry experience with the pass is no different than without it (other than scanning both).

So where do you get the "timed entry ticket"? Thanks

Here is where you get your timed entry ticket...whether you are booking with a Museum Pass or if you are buying outright. After you go thru the process you'll get an email which will give you the timed entry "ticket". I have gone digital for this but you can also print it out from home. I'd watch this website to see how far in advance things are booking out. When I was in Paris last April the Louvre was booked out every day BUT you didn't need to book months in advance...you could book 1-2 weeks in advance.

https://www.ticketlouvre.fr/louvre/b2c/index.cfm/home

And yes, you go to the ticket holder line.

IF you decide to go digital, I've just screen shot the ticket from the email and added it to both a photo album and to a Notes file I have for each trip.

In advance by a week or two, go online to Louvre pay for your tickets and pick a time. Having a pass and going from there doesn’t help anymore. The time time slots on the Paris Museum Pass were full a week out. But the Louvre individual ticket had openings. I wasted $112 on a paris Museum Pass which allows me to get times at other museums but not the Louvre. Now to try to get reimbursed by the Louvre…

@RickM…welcome to the forum! I wish you’d known to ask here before you bought the Museum Pass. The fact that pass tickets are booked out while individual tickets are available has been mentioned here on the forum over the last few months.

I’ve read the Louvre is capping daily visitors to 30,000 but no idea how they’ve got them divided between individual, pass holders and groups.

Hopefully you can visit enough other museums to make up the cost of your pass.

We just went to the louvre today with our museum pass. We booked a day and time back on March 29 for a 3:30 entrance. They have two lines, one for timed ticket holders and one for non-ticket holders. They adhere to the time on your ticket. We got on the 3:30 line at about 3:15. It was very long but moved very fast. That was just for security. When you descend down the escalator in the pyramid, there are different entrances for different wings. This is where they check your museum pass or ticket.

I don’t know how many museums you want to visit but we purchased a 6 day pass. Today was day 4 and we already saved over $30 on entrance fees. Be aware though that other places need a time ticket too, such as Versailles, D’Orsay, St Chapelle, L’Organerie.
We did not have timed tickets for the Arc, Conciergerie, musee de decorative arts (great exhibition on hair) Cluny, Musee Armee (WWI and WWII exhibition was closed, check dates).
We couldn’t figure out the Pompidue website so we are going to pass by there tomorrow and see what’s going on.
When we purchased the pass at the TI center, they made some of the reservations for us and printed the tickets. They were so helpful.

You are better off reserving a time on the museum web site. You can reference the museum pass and pay nothing for the reservation.