Marmottan Museum in Paris (Musee Marmottan)

You love the Orsay Museum and its impressionist masterpieces. Rush to the Marmottan Museum to see its splendid collection of paintings by Claude Monet.

The museum displays 65 masterpieces, including many Nympheas andn the famous "Impression soleil levant".

This painting gave its name to the Impressionism. Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissaro, Alfred Sisley, 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 emotions in his paintings. Everybody likes his friendly style.

Located in a private house of 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
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           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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