Ecole du Louvre

The museum school Art history, archaeology, epigraphy, anthropology and museology  

The École du Louvre, a public institution run by the French Ministry of Culture, is unique in terms of its location, its pedagogy, and its influence both in France and around the world. Founded in 1882, the École is situated in Paris, in the Palais du Louvre.  

Its mission is to educate students who hope to work in a variety of professions associated with museums, monuments, heritage sites, schools and universities, and other art-related careers.  

It embraces the new challenges for museums, heritage and art in our modern world.  

The undergraduate diploma (officially accredited as a ‘licence’ or B.A.) offers students the possibility to study the history of art and of artefacts from prehistory to the present day, across all regions of the world. Lectures in the classrooms are complemented by seminars in museum galleries, allowing for a more detailed study of works and their materiality.  

The graduate diploma (officially accredited as a ‘Master’ or M.A.) in museology proposes a wide-ranging and in-depth introduction to museum and heritage studies in the first year (M1). The students can then specialize in their second year, choosing between various majors:

• Art history and museum studies research 
• Mediation, Collection conservation 
• Art Market or Provenance 
• Sensitive objects and international contexts

For students who wish to pursue doctoral research, the École also offers a Post-Master's Diploma (preparatory year for the doctorate), and a Post-Graduate Diploma (PhD thesis, often with university co-supervision). Young researchers work with their supervisors and with members of the Research Centre, which currently organizes research around six main themes:

• Global Art History 
• Object Biographies 
• Museology(ies) and Heritage 
• Methods and Historiography 
• Provenance 
• Gender Studies 

Students holding a degree in museology, art history or archaeology from French or foreign universities may apply for entry to the Masters’, Post-Master’s and post-graduate programs at the École du Louvre.

Continuing education opportunities, on site or online, for everyone Auditors (or extramural students), regardless of their age or their qualifications, can follow one or more of the École’s courses, according to their tastes and objectives: long or short courses designed for them, special public lectures, general art-history courses, either introductory or more in-depth (and based on the same model as those for degree students), tutorials in front of artworks, specialty courses in rare disciplines (epigraphy, numismatics, etc.).  

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