Musée de l'OrangerieMusée de l'Orangerie

Orangerie Museum occupies a former 1850s orangery beside the Tuileries Garden, remade in the 1920s to house Claude Monet’s late cycle Water Lilies (1915–26), installed in 1927. Two oval, skylit rooms turn the paintings into a continuous horizon—an intentionally calming monument to renewal after World War I. Downstairs, the Paul Guillaume collection traces the shift from Impressionism into early modern art, giving this small museum an outsized role in Paris’s visual memory.