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16 and 17 September 2023Passed
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Registration on site within the limits of available places, go to the reception desk half an hour before the visit
September 2023
Saturday 16
11:00 - 12:30
15:00 - 16:30
Sunday 17
11:00 - 12:30
15:00 - 16:30

Musée national de l'Orangerie

Jardin des Tuileries (côté Seine) 75001 Paris
  • Paris
  • Île-de-France

Free guided tour: "From the Second Empire to the 21st century: the history of the Orangerie des Tuileries"

Built in 1852, under the Second Empire, to house during the winter the orange trees decorating the garden of the Palais des Tuileries, the current Musée de l'Orangerie has undergone several campaigns
16 and 17 September 2023Passed
Conditions
Registration on site within the limits of available places, go to the reception desk half an hour before the visit
© Neurdein / Roger-Viollet

Built in 1852, under the Second Empire, to house during the winter orange trees decorating the garden of the Tuileries Palace, the current Orangery Museum has undergone several campaigns of work to consolidate the building and transform it. In 1921, he was assigned to the Under-Secretary of State for Fine Arts to exhibit living artists. Georges Clemenceau, then President of the Council, proposes to install there the great ensemble of Water Lilies, a masterpiece that opens new paths announcing the twentieth century and that Claude Monet offered to the State at the end of the First World War to celebrate the armistice and peace. He inaugurated the «Claude Monet Museum» in 1927, a few months after the artist’s death. In 1966, the State’s choice to exhibit the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection, acquired in 1959 and 1963, gave its definitive appearance to the «first modern French art museum» accessible to the public.

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About the location

Musée national de l'Orangerie
Jardin des Tuileries (côté Seine) 75001 Paris
  • Paris
  • Île-de-France
Located in the heart of Paris, in the Jardin des Tuileries, the Musée de l'Orangerie presents two emblematic collections of the artistic creation of the early twentieth century: Les Nymphéas by Claude Monet and the Walter-Guillaume collection. Renovated in 2006, the museum offers the visitor a poetic and artistic discovery of these prestigious ensembles. The Water Lilies Both monumental and intimate, The Water Lilies are the expression and culmination of the artistic thought of Claude Monet. A crazy project of a painter who wanted to explore all the variations of light in his garden in Giverny, Les Nymphéas unfold in two oval rooms and invite the visitor to an endless contemplation. In the aftermath of the Great War, Monet wanted his work to take on this aesthetic and poetic dimension and thus offer Parisians a refuge, a place of peace and meditation. The Walter-Guillaume Collection An intellectual project by merchant Paul Guillaume and his wife Domenica, the Walter-Guillaume Collectio
Tags
Musée, salle d'exposition
Access
Subway: 1, 8, 12 station(resort) Concorde Bus: 24, 42, 52, 72, 73, 84, 94 stop(ruling) Concorde Parking lots: Concorde (angle of the avenue Gabriel and from the place de la Concorde) or Garden of the Tuileries (38, street of Mont-Thabor)