Adventures in the Louvre
How to Fall in Love With the World's Greatest Museum
WW Norton · Print & ebook · April 1, 2025
The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces.
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- Who it’s for
- Enter the Louvre as a living world of art, craft, history, and human labor.
- Themes
- Louvre and its artworks, Museum history and restoration, The people behind a museum
- Genres
- Museum Studies & Curation, France Travel, Travel Writing
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The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in this magical space and helps us fall in love with what was once a forbidding fortress.
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Exploring galleries, basements, rooftops, and gardens, Sciolino demystifies the Louvre, introducing us to her favorite artworks, both legendary and overlooked, and to the people who are the museum’s lifeblood: the curators, the artisans producing frames and engravings, the builders overseeing restorations, the firefighters protecting the aging structure. Blending investigative journalism, travelogue, history, and memoir, Sciolino walks her readers through the museum’s front gates and immerses them in its irresistible, engrossing world of beauty and culture. Adventures in the Louvre reveals the secrets of this grand monument of Paris and basks in its timeless, seductive power.
Beyond the Gallery
Enter the Louvre as a living world of art, craft, history, and human labor.
Come here for
- Legendary artworks alongside overlooked discoveries
- A mix of travelogue, history, journalism, and memoir
Expect
- Wandering through galleries, basements, rooftops, and gardens
- Meeting the people who keep the museum working
Where it sits
| Museum Studies & Curation | 75% |
|---|---|
| France Travel | 48% |
| Travel Writing | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Art History
- Museum Management
- France Travel
- Authors
- Elaine Sciolino
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- April 1, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Louvre and its artworks · Museum history and restoration · The people behind a museum
- Reading lane
- Art History