The Louvre after hours: the museum's quiet revolution
Friday-night extended hours have changed who comes — and how they look.
Since the Louvre extended its Friday hours to 21:45 and quietly halved the late-evening admission, a new audience has appeared. Not tourists — who, sensibly, are eating dinner — but Parisians.
Walk into the Denon wing at 20:30 on a Friday. The Italian Renaissance galleries are nearly empty. There are couples on dates, students with sketchbooks, a man in a suit reading wall labels at length.
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