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adventures in the louvre

adventures in the louvre

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One of the Economist's Best Books of the Year
One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Travel Books of 2025
An American Bookseller Association’s Indie Travel Literature Bestseller
One of the New York Observer's Best Art Books of 2025
One of Library Journal's Best Books of the Year
Author featured in Discovery Channel's documentary Louvre Heist and in CNN's Flashdoc The Heist

A former New York Times Paris bureau chief explores the Louvre, offering an intimate journey of discovery and revelation.

The Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in this magical space and helps us fall in love with what was once a forbidding fortress.

Exploring galleries, basements, rooftops, and gardens, Sciolino demystifies the Louvre, introducing us to her favorite artworks, both legendary and overlooked, and to the people who are the museum’s lifeblood: the curators, the artisans producing frames and engravings, the builders overseeing restorations, the firefighters protecting the aging structure.

Blending investigative journalism, travelogue, history, and memoir, Sciolino walks her readers through the museum’s front gates and immerses them in its irresistible, engrossing world of beauty and culture. Adventures in the Louvre reveals the secrets of this grand monument of Paris and basks in its timeless, seductive power.

53 black-and-white photographs

384 pages

Hardcover

 

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