Marmottan museum in Paris (Musee Marmottan)

You loved the Orsay museum with its impressionist masterpieces. Rush to the Marmottan museum in Paris and see its splendid collection of paintings by Claude Monet.

The museum displays 65 masterpieces, including the Rouen cathedral, a few Nympheas and "Impression soleil levant".

This famous painting gave its name to the Impressionism. Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissaro, Alfred Sisley and Claude Monet are among the famous impressionist painters.

Impression Sunrise - Claude Monet

The Marmottan museum in Paris

The Nympheas are waterlilies. Claude Monet painted them in his now famous garden of Giverny in Normandy, west of Paris.

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

Located in a private manshion in the fashionable Auteuil Western district of Paris, the Marmottan museum is a pilgrimage destination for  lovers of impressionism.

           Musee Marmottan
         2, rue Louis Bailly 75016 Paris
            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

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