Paris art museum tickets: Louvre, Orsay and more

The short answer

Choose the museum first, then the product. According to SkyGate's listings, seven of the nine products here admit you to one museum and you go in on your own, while both Louvre products bring a guide or a host to the door. If you want the Louvre with no guide at all, neither Louvre product is that.[2][1]

The Louvre: a guided tour, or a guided start

The Louvre Museum Skip-the-Line Guided Tour is guided by an English-speaking guide, and its three options differ only by start time: 9:30, 11:30 and 3:30 pm. You meet at the Arc du Carrousel on Place du Carrousel, on the right side with the Louvre Pyramid behind you. SkyGate's listing says the museum's temporary exhibitions are not included and that the tour is not suitable for people with reduced mobility or wheelchair users.[1] The listing does not give the tour's length, and XTOUR has not verified it.

The Louvre Museum Ticket has two options, and both start with someone from the operator. In the Guided Tour with Priority Entry option, you meet a guide next to the Boulangerie Eric Kayser at the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, collect your admission ticket from the guide, take a one-hour tour in English, then explore alone with a multilingual audio guide. In the Skip-the-Line Admission with Direct Access to Mona Lisa option, an English-speaking host meets you near the La France Victorieuse statue by the Arc du Carrousel and takes you straight to the Mona Lisa, after which you are on your own; entry is only allowed with the guide. SkyGate adds that skip-the-line access is subject to the Louvre's procedures, that security checks or crowds may delay entry, and that you may be admitted within 30 minutes of your time slot. For the guided-entry option, SkyGate says under-18s are free but still need a ticket from the museum's own website.[2]

The museum itself says it is open daily except Tuesdays, until 9 pm on Wednesdays and Fridays, with last entry an hour before closing. Its visit page carries a notice that on Monday 5 October 2026 the museum may open later and some rooms may stay closed. The Louvre also says its own tickets cover the permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, which is worth weighing against the guided tour's exclusion.[3] See the Louvre Museum page on XTOUR.

Musée d'Orsay: day or Thursday evening

The Orsay Museum Ticket: Dedicated Entrance has two options, Admission and Thursday Evening Admission, both through a dedicated entrance and both covering the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions, subject to availability. SkyGate also warns that there may be a line on busy days, so read "dedicated entrance" as a separate door, not a promise of no wait. SkyGate's description puts the collection between 1848 and 1914, with Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh among the artists. According to the listing, under-18s are free with valid ID and the options sell adult tickets only.[4] The museum's website blocked XTOUR's reader on 3 October 2026, so the evening hours are not confirmed here; check the museum's site before you go. See the Musée d'Orsay page on XTOUR.

Monet twice: the Orangerie or the Marmottan

The Musée de l'Orangerie product has one option, admission to the permanent and temporary exhibitions, and you show your phone ticket at the Visitors with tickets line. SkyGate's listing says the security check is mandatory, big bags and suitcases are not allowed and there are no lockers.[5] The museum's site presents Monet's Water Lilies and the Walter-Guillaume collection as its permanent collections, and lists the exhibition Monet, painting time from 30 September 2026 to 25 January 2027.[6]

The Musée Marmottan Monet product is a single option titled Skip the Line Admission, covering the permanent collection, the temporary exhibitions, the Galerie Temporaire and the Salle Monet. SkyGate's option offers a reduced ticket for under-18s, students under 25 and job seekers with documentation.[7] The museum says it holds the world's biggest collection of works by Monet, including Impression, Sunrise, and the largest public collection of Berthe Morisot. Its exhibition Histories of Landscape: From Monet to Hockney runs from 24 September 2026 to 31 January 2027, according to the museum, which opens Tuesday to Sunday with a late opening on Thursdays.[8]

XTOUR's reading: the Orangerie is for the Water Lilies rooms in the Tuileries; the Marmottan, on rue Louis-Boilly, is for a much wider run of Monet and Morisot.

Rodin or Picasso

The Musée Rodin product is one Skip the Line Admission option that covers the permanent collections, temporary exhibitions and the Sculpture Garden; SkyGate's listing does not explain what skip-the-line means at the door.[9] The museum says it opens Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6:30 pm with last entry at 5:45 pm, at 77 rue de Varenne, and that large bags are not accepted. Its home page also says a structure is being installed in the Sculpture Garden until 12 October, with the artworks still visible.[10] See the Musée Rodin page on XTOUR.

The Musée national Picasso-Paris: Priority Entrance product covers the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions, and SkyGate's voucher tells you to use the ticket holder line and show your phone ticket.[11] The museum opens Tuesday to Sunday from 9:30 am to 6 pm and is closed on Mondays, according to its visit page. The same page says priority access on the museum's own timed tickets is guaranteed only in the half hour after the time on the ticket; SkyGate's option shows no time slot and does not say how priority applies to it.[11][12]

Contemporary art, or a collector's mansion

The Bourse de Commerce Pinault Collection Ticket is one option for François Pinault's contemporary art collection; you show your phone ticket at the entrance, and an audio guide app is available online. SkyGate's listing says the museum is closed on Tuesdays and 1 May.[13] The operator's page says the building is "in motion" until 5 October 2026 while it prepares the exhibition Remember Me, which opens on 7 October with around 700 works by more than 70 artists; its Irving Penn and Raymond Depardon photography shows run into January 2027.[14]

The Jacquemart-Andre Museum Skip-The-Line Ticket admits you to the permanent collection, the apartments and the temporary exhibitions, and includes a bilingual audio guide in English and French. SkyGate's listing says children under 7 are free and the museum is wheelchair-accessible.[15] The museum describes itself as a 19th-century residence at 158 boulevard Haussmann with Italian Renaissance, Flemish and 18th-century French works, and lists the exhibition Timeless Tintoretto from 11 September 2026.[16]

How to choose

• A full guided Louvre visit at a set time: the Louvre Museum Skip-the-Line Guided Tour (temporary exhibitions excluded).
• The Louvre with a short guided start and then free time: the Louvre Museum Ticket, choosing the one-hour tour or the Mona Lisa host.
• Impressionism in one big museum: the Orsay Museum Ticket: Dedicated Entrance, with a Thursday evening option.
• Monet's Water Lilies rooms: the Musée de l'Orangerie; a deeper Monet and Morisot collection: the Musée Marmottan Monet.
• Sculpture with a garden: the Musée Rodin; Picasso in the Marais: the Musée national Picasso-Paris: Priority Entrance.
• Contemporary art: the Bourse de Commerce Pinault Collection Ticket; a furnished collector's house with an audio guide: the Jacquemart-Andre Museum Skip-The-Line Ticket.

Before you book

• The Louvre is closed on Tuesdays, and the Musée national Picasso-Paris on Mondays, according to the museums.[12][3]
• With the Louvre's Mona Lisa option, you can enter only with your guide, according to SkyGate.[2]
• At the Orangerie there are no lockers and big bags are refused, according to SkyGate's listing.[5]
• The Bourse de Commerce's new exhibition opens on 7 October 2026, according to the operator.[14]