Marmottan Museum

Marmottan Museum and Claude Monet

You love Claude Monet paintings and come to Paris. Visit the Orsay Museum, go to Giverny near Paris and rush to the Marmottan Museum in Paris.

The Museum has 65 Claude Monet paintings, including Nympheas and Impression soleil levant.

This 1872 painting gave its name to the famous impressionist movement of late 19th century.

Claude Monet, the impressionnist painter

The Nympheas are waterlilies. Claude Monet painted them in the famous garden of his house in Giverny. Giverny is a lovely village in Normandy, west of Paris.

As the best impressionist landscape painter, Claude Monet brought color and light, expressed happiness and life emotions in his paintings. Everybody likes his friendly style and his paintings are sold a fortune.

Visit Marmottan Museum

The Marmottan Museum is housed in a private house of the fashionable Auteuil district in Paris.

   Musee Marmottan
    2, rue Louis Bailly 75016 Paris
    Locate Musee Marmottan on Paris map
    tel: 33 (0)1 44 96 50 33
    Website
      La Muette station on line 9
    Closed Mondays, 1/01,1/05,25/12
    Open 10 am to 6 pm