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  "editorialMarkdown": "[View next **Palais Garnier**](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/palais-garnier>)\n\n## Musée de l’Orangerie\n\nMonet’s Water Lilies and a manageable museum visit in the Tuileries.\n\n[Plan this experience](<https://www.musee-orangerie.fr/en>)\n\n[Explore the story](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/musee-orangerie#experience-story>)\n\nCost **Admission options**\n\nTime to allow **Allow 1½–2 hours**\n\nPlace **Tuileries, Paris**\n\n01 / The experience\n\n### Monet’s Water Lilies and a second collection below.\n\nMonet's Water Lilies curve around the oval rooms at the Musée de l'Orangerie. The paintings are experienced as an environment rather than a single framed object, with the walls and filtered light supporting a continuous view. The changing colour and reflection have room to occupy the visitor's field of vision.\n\n#### Monet’s Water Lilies and the lower galleries\n\nMonet offered the great series to France, and the rooms give it a particularly specific setting. A first look across the whole space reveals the scale; a closer view brings the painted surface and the transitions between water, sky and vegetation into focus. The visit can move between those two distances without requiring a fixed route from one separate painting to the next.\n\nThe museum has another substantial side on the lower level. The Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collections bring together artists including Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso and Soutine. They provide a different kind of looking after the immersive Water Lilies rooms, with individual works and varied approaches to painting replacing the continuous panorama.\n\n#### A museum visit at the edge of the Tuileries\n\nThat contrast gives the museum more range than its most famous image suggests. A visit interested mainly in Monet can still gain another perspective from the wider collection, while visitors following early twentieth-century painting have a reason to look beyond the upper rooms. Temporary exhibitions add further subjects according to the programme.\n\nThe  [Tuileries](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/louvre-tuileries>)  setting places the museum within a garden rather than along a busy shopping street. Outdoors and indoors have a clear relationship here, but the museum's particular attraction is the transition between two kinds of art experience: Monet's enveloping painted spaces and the more varied, concentrated encounters with the collection below.\n\n![Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris](<https://above.guide/paris/_guide/images/tennis/roland-garros-tennis/generated-city-expansion-v1/musee-orangerie-water-lilies-v1.webp>)\n\nCulture & landmarks **Musée de l’Orangerie** Paris\n\nIn pictures\n\n### The full gallery.\n\n02 / The essentials\n\n### Musée de l’Orangerie: visit essentials\n\n1. 01\n\n   Tuileries\n2. 02\n\n   Allow 1½–2 hours\n3. 03\n\n   Normally closed Tuesday; check temporary changes and your ticket time.\n\n04 / Before you go\n\n### Plan your visit\n\nMonet’s Water Lilies and a manageable museum visit in the Tuileries.\n\n#### Admission\n\nCheck the current admission price and ticket options before booking.\n\n[Check admission](<https://www.musee-orangerie.fr/en>)\n\n#### Choose your visit\n\nNormally closed Tuesday; check temporary changes and your ticket time.\n\nConfirm opening and service times for your visit.\n\n#### Arrival & access\n\nUse the museum entrance in the Tuileries on the Seine side, near Concorde métro. Follow the museum’s current entrance instructions rather than treating a garden gate as admission.\n\nJardin des Tuileries, côté Seine, 75001 Paris\n\nCheck the museum’s accessible entrance and lift arrangements before choosing a route through the collections.\n\n[Get directions](<https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=48.8637886047,2.3226723671>)\n\n#### Plan admission\n\nReserve the required admission time and check current ticket prices, eligibility and exhibition conditions on the museum website.\n\n[Plan your visit](<https://www.musee-orangerie.fr/en>)\n\n05 / Where it is\n\n### Find it\nand what’s nearby.\n\nExplore around Musée de l’Orangerie\n\n The map will load when you reach it.\n\nContinue exploring\n\n### More of Paris, around your visit.\n\n#### Continue your Paris day\n\n- [Louvre & Tuileries](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/louvre-tuileries>)\n- [Jardin des Tuileries](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do/jardin-des-tuileries>)\n- [All Paris sights and neighbourhoods](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do>)\n- [Paris cafés, restaurants and food stops](<https://above.guide/paris/food-and-drink>)\n\n#### Plan your Paris visit\n\n- [Paris city guide](<https://above.guide/paris>)\n- [Choose a Paris city day](<https://above.guide/paris/city-days>)\n- [Find a Paris hotel](<https://above.guide/paris/where-to-stay>)\n- [Plan Métro and walking journeys](<https://above.guide/paris/getting-there>)\n- [Build your saved itinerary](<https://above.guide/paris/my-itinerary>)\n\n06 / Good to know\n\n### Musée de l’Orangerie: frequently asked questions\n\n01 Do I need to book the free first Sunday at Musée de l’Orangerie?\n\nYes. The first Sunday of the month is free for everyone, but an online time slot is mandatory. That free-day reservation is separate from ordinary paid admission.\n\nContinue exploring\n\n### Make Paris\nyour own.\n\n[Visit the official site](<https://www.musee-orangerie.fr/en>)[← All things to do](<https://above.guide/paris/things-to-do>)\n\nOpening hours, prices and access change. Confirm details on the official site before visiting."
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