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The Musée de l'Orangerie in the Tuileries Garden, Paris

No. 68 Top 100 Most Visited Art Museums 2025 · 1,129,211 visitors in 2025

Musée de l’Orangerie

Paris, France · City guide: Paris

Monet's Water Lilies in two oval rooms, plus a gem of a modern art collection, in the Tuileries.

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Overview

The Musée de l'Orangerie is No. 68 in The Art Newspaper's survey of the world's most visited art museums, with 1,129,211 visitors in 2025, down 6% on 2024. It stands in the Tuileries Garden, beside the Place de la Concorde, in a former orangery.

It is famous for Claude Monet's Water Lilies (Nymphéas), a series of huge panels installed in two oval rooms lit by daylight and opened to the public in 1927. Downstairs, the Walter-Guillaume collection holds Impressionist and modern paintings.

A gallery of the Walter-Guillaume collection at the Musée de l'Orangerie
A gallery of the Walter-Guillaume collection at the Musée de l'Orangerie. Photo: David McSpadden from Daly City, United States, CC BY 2.0, source

Best time to visit

Arrive at opening time or late in the day; the oval rooms are most peaceful when quiet. The museum is closed on Tuesdays.

Highlights & collections

  • 1

    Water Lilies

    Monet's eight vast panels, which wrap around the walls of two oval rooms.

  • 2

    Walter-Guillaume collection

    Paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, Soutine and Henri Rousseau.

  • 3

    Temporary exhibitions

    Shows linked to the collection and to modern art.

Getting there

The museum is in the Tuileries Garden, on the Seine side of the Place de la Concorde. The nearest metro station is Concorde (Lines 1, 8 and 12).

Visiting tips

Tickets & hours
Book a timed ticket online. Check the official website for prices and hours.
Time needed
One to two hours.
Currency
Euro (EUR). Cards, including contactless, are accepted almost everywhere.
Visa & entry
France is in the Schengen Area. Many visitors, including citizens of the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, can stay up to 90 days in any 180-day period without a visa. The EU's Entry/Exit System (EES) now records non-EU travellers' entries and exits at the border, and the ETIAS travel authorisation is due to follow. Check the official EU site travel-europe.europa.eu and your own government's travel advice before you go.

Official information: Musée de l'Orangerie (official website). Check opening hours, prices and entry rules there before you go.

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