A real place on screen
Louvre Palace & Pyramid
A former fortress and royal palace surrounds a modern glass entrance pyramid. The contrast between historic courts and contemporary geometry makes the museum’s public spaces immediately recognisable on screen.
- Architect / attribution
- Successive palace architects; I. M. Pei (pyramid)
- Building chronology
- Medieval origins; palace largely 16th–19th centuries; pyramid 1989
- Place
- Paris, France
The real building
The Louvre Palace
Films at Louvre Palace & Pyramid
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
On screen: The Louvre sequences
The museum’s palace courts and pyramid anchor the film’s Paris setting. The plot’s hidden meanings and secret burials are fiction.
Filming evidence
Building sources
A screen appearance does not imply public access. Consult the venue for current visiting arrangements.