École du Louvre

Information updated 08.09.2026

Overview

École du Louvre is a public higher-education institution of the French Ministry of Culture based in Paris, France. The school was founded in 1882 inside the Louvre Palace and today uses its French institutional name École du Louvre.

Current status and profile

It specializes in art history, archaeology, epigraphy, anthropology and museology. The old English directory label “Louvre School” is normalized to the current official identity.