Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris Flexible Entry Ticket

Highlights

• 360° Monet Water Lilies Rooms: Eight monumental panels curve along two custom oval galleries bathed in soft natural skylight.
• The lower level holds art masterpieces and iconic works by Post-Impressionist and Avant-Garde giants like Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse.
• You can enjoy the entire museum comfortably in under 90 minutes. Strict capacity limits ensure a quiet, uncrowded, and meditative atmosphere
• Renoir & Post-Impressionist Masterpieces Luminous portraits and still lifes highlight Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s signature soft-focus technique

Your itinerary

5 stops · in order · 2 hours in total

1. 1
   Level 0 Oval Rooms: Claude Monet: Water Lilies (Les Nymphéas)30 mins

   Start immediately in the two custom oval rooms. Eight monumental compositions wrap along the curved white walls, illuminated entirely by natural light coming through overhead glass skylights. Notice how the colors shift depending on the weather outside, and sit on the central bench in Room 1 to take in the 360-degree panorama of Monet’s Giverny lily pond.

   
2. 2
   -1 Level: Impressionist Galleries – The Cézanne & Renoir Rooms15 mins

   Head downstairs into the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection. Cézanne’s still life painting is one of the collection’s absolute masterpieces. Paul Cézanne: Apples and Biscuits (Pommes et biscuits) - Observe the geometric structure and multiple perspectives Cézanne gives to simple fruit—this exact technique inspired Picasso and Braque to create Cubism.

   
3. 3
   -1 Level: Impressionist Galleries – The Cézanne & Renoir Rooms15 mins

   Renoir produced several variations of this gentle, domestic Impressionist scene commissioned by the French government in 1892. Young Girls at the Piano (Jeunes filles au piano) - Notice his signature feathery brushwork and the warm, golden light reflecting off the girls’ hair and dresses.

   
4. 4
   -1 Level: The Early Modern & Cubism Rooms (Picasso & Matisse)15 mins

   The Large Bather (Grand Nu) by Picasso - Painted during Picasso's "Neoclassical" period in the early 1920s following World War I. The massive, heavy, sculptural proportion of the female figure, showing Picasso stepping away from abstract Cubism to reinterpret classical Mediterranean motifs.

   
5. 5
   -1 Level: The Paris Avant-Garde & Naive Art Rooms15 mins

   Highlighted Artwork: Père Junier's Carriage (La Carriole du Père Junier) by Henri Rousseau - Rousseau’s self-taught "naive" style presents a flat, charmingly whimsical portrait of a family carriage ride that captivated Paris's avant-garde movement.

   

Entrance & how to find it

The exact door to use — so you skip the main queue.

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