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Adventures in the Louvre

How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum

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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 listeners 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.

©2025 Elaine Sciolino (P)2025 Highbridge Audio Art Europe Library & Museum Studies Social Sciences Adventure
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The pronunciation of the French names was very irritating as it was neither the French way nor the American way, a strange mixture which was very confusing. The reader pretended to speak French well, but in fact she doesn’t .

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