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Musée de l’Orangerie
(Orangerie Museum)
Located in the corner of the Tuileries Garden (Jardin des Tuileries), the Orangerie Museum houses paintings by masters such as Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso, Matisse, and Utrillo. The museum is unique with its white, elliptical rooms in which elongated Monet water lilies paintings stretch the length of the walls. It is perhaps the only museum where visitors huddle in the center of the room instead of along the walls, where they seem to meditate in the tranquility and beauty of the nearly spiritual Les Nymphéas (water lilies).
Jardin des Tuileries, Paris 1st
Tél: 01 4477 8007
Métro: #8 Invalides, #1 Concorde
Bus: 42, 69, 72, 73
Vélib: 1020 – 2, rue Cambon
2011 hours: Open daily 9am-6pm. Closed May 1st, December 25th
Admission: €7.50 adult, €5.50 reduced, and €2 surcharge for temporary exhibitions.
Free admission the first Sunday of every month.
Handicap accessible.
