Orangerie Museum
The museum of Monet's Water Lilies
Orangerie Museum
The Orangerie Museum or Musée de la Orangerie , is the museum that houses a series of large paintings of Water Lilies, masterpieces offered by Monet himself to France in 1922.
These works by Monet are exhibited in two rooms with oval walls and diffused lighting, just as the artist intended them to be displayed.
What to see at the Orangerie Museum
In addition to Monet’s works, there is a permanent exhibition, an important collection with works by Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Cézanne and Renoir.
The museum is located in a beautiful greenhouse orange trees built in 1853, in the Tuilery Gardens in Paris.
It is a pleasant museum to visit and a recommended visit.
A few meters from the museum is the Place de la Concorde and on the opposite side the Louvre Museum. Very close to other places of interest in Paris.
Prices
€12.50. Buy the Orangerie Museum ticket and save time in queues.
Free admission: the first Sundays of the month. Check out more about free museums in Paris.
It is included for free if you have the Paris Pass tourist card.
Schedules
From Wednesday to Monday: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Closed on Tuesdays
Address
Jardin Tuileries 75001 Paris, France
How to get
Subway Concorde
See more Museums of Paris.
Places near the Orangerie Museum
You can walk from here to these neighboring attractions
Tuileries Gardens
Public gardens of Paris located between the Place de la Concorde and the Louvre Museum. A pleasant walk in the heart of the city.
Place de la Concorde
Paris square where executions were carried out with the guillotine, including that of Marie Antoinette.
Louvre Museum
The National Museum of France. Its exhibition is dedicated to fine arts, archeology and decorative arts before Impressionism.
Orsay Museum
The largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings in the world.
