{"id":313485,"date":"2025-11-29T02:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T02:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/313485\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T02:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T02:15:10","slug":"canadians-will-have-to-pay-45-more-to-visit-the-louvre-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/313485\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians will have to pay 45% more to visit the Louvre in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadians will have to pay more to get a glimpse of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre next year.<\/p>\n<p>In an email statement, a spokesperson from the iconic museum in Paris told Daily Hive that differentiated pricing for European and non-European visitors at several cultural establishments will come into effect on Jan. 14, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Price hikes for non-European visitors will be implemented at national cultural institutions, including the Ch\u00e2teau de Versailles, the Centre des Monuments Nationaux (Sainte Chapelle), the Paris Opera, the Ch\u00e2teau de Chambord, and the Louvre.<\/p>\n<p>How much will Canadians have to pay to visit the Louvre next year?<br \/>\n<img alt=\"the louvre\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2219907\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/shutterstock_1033991839.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2219907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ewa Studio\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>According to the spokesperson, the non-European visitor rate at the museum will be \u20ac32 (C$52) for individual visitors starting Jan. 14, 2026. That\u2019s about a 45 per cent (C$16) price hike from the current entrance fee of \u20ac22 (C$36).<\/p>\n<p>The entrance fee will be slightly cheaper at \u20ac28 (C$45) for groups with accredited guides. The number of participants for groups will be limited to 20 people in order to \u201cmaintain the quality of the visit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith regard to the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, this pricing measure will support the financing of the institution\u2019s investments,\u201d explained the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>They added that it would specifically fund the technical master plans launched as part of the \u201cLouvre \u2013 Nouvelle Renaissance\u201d project, which aims to \u201cmodernize and transform the Louvre in response to the museum\u2019s structural problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is expected to increase the institution\u2019s resources by \u20ac15 to \u20ac20 million per year,\u201d stated the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of a price hike began <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/canada\/canadians-pay-more-the-louvre-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">circulating in July<\/a>. Sources from France\u2019s Ministry of Culture\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/culture\/article\/2025\/06\/08\/french-museums-plan-to-raise-admission-fees-for-non-european-visitors_6742117_30.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told French news outlet\u00a0Le Monde<\/a>\u00a0that the hike would be implemented at the Louvre and Ch\u00e2teau de Versailles.<\/p>\n<p>With non-European visitors accounting for 42 per cent of Versailles\u2019 eight million annual visitors, the increased payments would go towards repairing a cracked pool, restoring a neglected grove, or fixing a leaky roof, reported\u00a0Le Monde.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadians will have to pay more to get a glimpse of the Mona Lisa in the Louvre next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-313485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}