The Louvre finally gets a new website: here are all the new features

At long last, the Musée du Louvre in Paris has retired its old website, now considered too dated by most and not in line with the needs of the world’s most visited museum. As of March 26, the Louvre has in fact launched its new website, which also puts the museum’s collections online, with a database full of more than 480,000 entries. The platform, the museum assures, “for the first time brings together all the museum’s works,” presented in a “more ergonomic, more visual, more immersive” site.

There are two, in essence, tools: the first is the museum’s website(louvre.fr), designed, the institution declares, to help as many people as possible discover the Louvre. There are three main sections (“Visiter,” “Découvrir,” and “En ce moment”), with pages that take visitors on a tour of the building, its halls, events, and current exhibitions, with extensive use of images and videos, and designed to be easily accessible on both computers and mobile devices (although the priority, the Louvre says, is for the latter). The site is currently available in French, English, Spanish, and Chinese.

The second tool is the collections site(collections.louvre.fr), a search engine that gives access to 480 thousand files (including works in storage) with images, technical data, bibliographies, all updated daily by the museum’s scientific staff. The engine allows simple or advanced searching (e.g., by location or theme) and allows the public to search through all of the Louvre’s works, those in the Musée Delacroix, sculptures in the Tuileries Garden and the Carrousel, as well as works that the Louvre recovers thanks to its research on objects stolen from France during World War II, and which are deposited in the Paris museum before being returned to their rightful owners.

“Today, the Louvre brings its treasures, even the lesser-known ones, out of confinement,” says president-director Jean-Luc Martinez. “For the first time, everyone will be able, free of charge, from their computers or smartphones, to access all the works preserved at the Louvre, both those on display in the building and those on loan or in storage. All the beauty of our heritage is offered at the click of a mouse. I am convinced that digital development goes a long way toward increasing our public’s desire to come physically to the museum to discover the works in their materiality.”

The Louvre finally gets a new website: here are all the new features

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