The Louvre museum offers all his works on a digital platform

“This is a step that began many years ago and aims to serve both the general public and the research public. Accessibility is at the heart of our missions “, declared by videoconference the president and director of the Louvre, Jean-Luc Martinez.

Is new page now includes more than 482,000 well-illustrated reviews, the equivalent of three quarters of the explanations on the collections, thus replacing the old “Atlas” base, whose capacity was limited to the only works exhibited.

With all, the Collections.louvre.fr platform will allow you to both immerse yourself in emblematic works and look at archaeological series for example Fragmentary Greek Antiquities. As Martinez pointed out, art lovers and their researchers will be able to find out about the tours, going through reviews and other tools.

Likewise, the site will contain pieces from the Delacroix museum – dependent on the Louvre – sculptures from the Tuileries Garden, and works recovered in Germany since 1945 and entrusted to the museum, awaiting return to their looted owner. Always keeping in mind that Any item, whether in room or in storage, even under the protection of other institutions and reserves, or those stored in the new ultramodern center in Liévin (Pas de Calais), will be just a click away.

Just when virtual tours are booming

To this platform a new one is also added for the Louvre, with a visual will, greater immersion and better storytelling, both in images and video. Accessible in French, English, Chinese and, what interests us, Spanish, has been designed for optimal practical use on tablets and mobile phones, as studies have found that 60% of the surveys were carried out by these means. Yet it is also designed for schoolchildren and all foreign tourists, who usually visit the Louvre with general tickets.

“There was a kind of public appetite for storytelling (around the works and the museum) to which we responded ”, explained Dominique de Font-Réaulx, director of mediation and cultural programming, adding that “a large place was given to the still and animated image (to accompany these stories in the largest museum in the world “.

Despite the closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the year of the Louvre was marked by an explosion of visits and a consolidation of social networks, with 21 million virtual viewers on ‘louvre.fr’ and 10 million subscribers.