Louvre Map: Floor Plan by Wing, Level and Masterpiece

The Louvre map makes sense with three names and five numbers: the museum is split into three wings, Denon to the south, Sully in the center and Richelieu to the north, and each wing has levels running from -2 to 2. Everything starts under the Pyramid, in the underground hall from which you go up into each wing. The museum publishes an official PDF floor plan and hands out free paper maps at the information desks under the Pyramid.

What are the wings of the Louvre?

The Louvre has three connected wings, which the museum calls ailes. This is how Spanish Wikipedia places them:

Denon, to the south, facing the Seine. Most of the large-format Italian and French painting is here, and so are the Mona Lisa and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.
Sully, in the center. The Venus de Milo is here.
Richelieu, to the north, facing the rue de Rivoli. According to Spanish Wikipedia, French sculpture is shown in Richelieu and foreign sculpture in Denon.

The three wings connect inside, so you can move from one to another without going out. What you should avoid is crossing the museum several times: pick the works you want to see first and group them by wing.

How many levels does the Louvre have?

The collections take up five levels, according to Spanish Wikipedia. On the map and on the museum’s signs they are numbered like this:

Level	What is there (examples with room)
-2 and -1	Islamic Art (Denon); the underground hall under the Pyramid leads to all three wings
0	Venus de Milo (Sully, room 345); Michelangelo’s Dying Slave (Denon, room 403); Code of Hammurabi (Richelieu, room 227)
1	Mona Lisa and Wedding at Cana (Denon, room 711); Winged Victory of Samothrace (Denon, room 703); Apollo Gallery (Denon); Liberty Leading the People and Raft of the Medusa (Denon, room 700)
2	Medici Gallery (Richelieu)

Level 0 is street level; level 1 is one floor up, what Americans would call the second floor. Almost all the works people look for on a first visit are on level 1 of the Denon wing, a few minutes’ walk from one another.

Which room is each famous work in?

These are the rooms the Louvre itself gives in its collections database and visitor trails, checked October 27, 2026:

Mona Lisa: room 711, Salle des États, Denon wing, level 1. We explain it step by step in where is the Mona Lisa.
The Wedding at Cana, by Veronese: in the same room 711.
Liberty Leading the People and The Raft of the Medusa: room 700, Salle Mollien, Denon wing, level 1.
Winged Victory of Samothrace: room 703, the landing the museum calls Palier Samothrace, Denon wing, level 1.
Venus de Milo: room 345, Sully wing, level 0.
Michelangelo’s Dying Slave: room 403, Michelangelo Gallery, Denon wing, level 0.
Code of Hammurabi: room 227, Richelieu wing, level 0. We explain it in the Code of Hammurabi at the Louvre.
Apollo Gallery: Denon wing, level 1. You can read what is in the Apollo Gallery before you go.

With this list, one possible route starts in Sully (Venus de Milo, level 0) and then moves to level 1 of Denon, where the Winged Victory of Samothrace, room 700 and room 711 are clustered. For more ideas on ordering your visit, see what to see at the Louvre.

Which entrance do you use at the Louvre?

The museum has four entrances, according to its official getting-there page (checked October 27, 2026):

Entrance	Who for	Practical detail
Pyramid	Everyone	Three lines: green for those who already have a ticket or Paris Museum Pass, orange for those without one and blue for visitors with disabilities
Carrousel (99 rue de Rivoli)	Everyone with a ticket, groups and members	Entered through the Carrousel du Louvre shopping center; metro Palais-Royal / Musée du Louvre (lines 1 and 7)
Passage Richelieu	Groups, museum activities and holders of certain cards only	Closes at 5:30 p.m., and at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays
Porte des Lions (quai François Mitterrand)	Ticket holders only	Open every day except Tuesday until 6:00 p.m., last entry at 5:00 p.m.; cloakroom until 3:00 p.m.

If you are traveling independently, your real options are the Pyramid and the Carrousel. The Porte des Lions drops you on the Seine side, but it only works if you already have your ticket. For transport to the door, see how to get to the Louvre; and if the glass building interests you, here is the story of the Louvre Pyramid.

Remember that your ticket is for a date and time and allows a single entry: if you leave, you cannot go back in. The museum is closed on Tuesdays.

Which rooms are closed on the day of your visit?

No visit to the Louvre finds every room open. The museum publishes a room calendar with a filter by day of the week: you pick the day and it tells you which areas are open. On October 27, 2026, for example, it announced that room 709 of Italian painting would close from November 3 to 10, 2026, and that rooms 600 to 604 of decorative arts (Sully wing) would close from November 2 to December 6, 2026, and it listed rooms 720 to 734 of Spanish painting as closed.

Check it the day before, especially if you are going for a specific work. If a room is closed, the map will not tell you.

Where can you download the official Louvre map?

The Louvre offers three versions of the map:

PDF (6.8 MB, May 2026 edition; the file linked here is the Spanish-language edition): official Louvre map PDF.
Interactive map of the collections at collections.louvre.fr, which lets you search for a work and see its room.
Free paper map at the information desks under the Pyramid, in Spanish and eight other languages.

Download the PDF to your phone before you set out and mark the rooms you want to see: that way you arrive with your route already planned.

Map or guide: which suits you

The map is enough if you are going for five or six works and know their rooms. If you would rather have someone set the route and tell you about what you are seeing, a Louvre guided tour includes admission and covers the masterpieces of the Denon wing for you. To compare every option, with its price and the guide’s language, see the Louvre Museum tickets.