OPEN AIR
Museum without walls
Historic and modern works sit throughout the garden landscape.
ART IN THE GARDEN
Tuileries Garden sculptures: an open-air museum
The Tuileries and Carrousel Gardens contain one of central Paris’s easiest art walks: historic garden sculpture sits alongside modern and contemporary works in an outdoor setting.
Reviewed 2026-09-23
CARROUSEL
Maillol bronzes
The eastern garden near the Louvre holds an important Maillol group.
CONSERVATION
Copies sometimes replace originals
Fragile sculpture may be moved indoors to protect it from weathering.
COLLECTION
Around 140 statues and vases form the wider garden collection.
The Louvre describes the national gardens as a true open-air sculpture museum. Its collection history page says the wider Tuileries and Louvre garden collection contains around 140 statues and vases, with works entering the landscape in successive waves since the early eighteenth century.
OLD & NEW
The sculpture is deliberately mixed across centuries.
The garden includes artists associated with the seventeenth century through to modern and contemporary art. The Louvre specifically names sculptors including Antoine Coysevox, Auguste Rodin, Jean Dubuffet, Giuseppe Penone and Louise Bourgeois.
Some original marbles have been moved indoors for conservation and replaced outside by copies. That is part of the garden’s long history of balancing display with preservation.
CARROUSEL
Do not stop at the garden’s eastern edge.
Between the Louvre Pyramid and the Tuileries is the Carrousel Garden. The Louvre describes it as an open-air sculpture museum and highlights the group of bronzes by Aristide Maillol that was installed there in the twentieth century.
If you are combining a Louvre visit with the Tuileries, walking through the Carrousel first makes the transition from indoor museum to outdoor sculpture feel intentional rather than simply a route to the park.
FAQ
Common questions
How many sculptures are in the Tuileries?
The Louvre’s garden collection information describes around 140 statues and vases across the national gardens collection.
Are all of the sculptures original?
No. Some fragile originals have been moved indoors for conservation and replaced by copies in the garden.
Where are the Maillol sculptures?
A group of Maillol bronzes is displayed in the Carrousel Garden between the Louvre complex and the Tuileries.
OFFICIAL SOURCES
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Practical details can change. These official sources were used to review this guide.