For the first time in seven years, ticket prices for entry to the Louvre museum will be raised in January 2024.

Current ticket prices to the Paris institution stand at €17 ($18.30) for general admission, with free tickets available for Louvre members (annual Amis du Louvre membership costs €80, or $86), residents of the European Economic Area aged between 18 and 25, certain professionals including teachers working in France and artists affiliated with the Maison des Artistes or International Association of Art, jobseekers, and disabled visitors.

Come January, the general admission ticket will be raised by 29 percent, reaching €22 ($23.70). This coincides with Paris hosting the 33rd modern Olympic Games between July 26 and August 11, 2024 and France’s first ever summer Paralympics from August 28 to September 8, 2024.

Other prices are also being raised in the French capital in 2024, including tickets for the metro which are set to nearly double during the Games. In reference to the metro hikes, the president of the regional council of Île-de-France Valerie Pecresse said that “if it’s not the visitors who pay, it’s going to be the tax payer.” Hotel prices for the 2024 summer season in Paris are already three-and-a-half times the usual rates.

The Louvre—which is the most visited museum in the world, with attendance numbers in 2023 estimated between 7.5 million and 8.5 million—has said that raising ticket prices will enable it to fund its free entry tickets and tackle energy costs, making no reference to the Olympics.

Some of the world’s most famous artworks are hung in the Louvre, adding to its popularity, including Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (1503), Alexandros of Antioch’s Venus de Milo (150–125 B.C.E), Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’ Grande Odalisque (1814), and Liberty Leading the People (1830) by Eugène Delacroix.

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