Marmottan Museum

Marmottan, an Impressionist Museum in Paris

You like impressionism. Visit the Orsay Museum and Marmottan Monet Museum in Paris. Go to Giverny near Paris (there are half a day Giverny tours from Paris).

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

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

Paris Impressionist Museum: Impression Soleil Levant - Monet - Marmottan Museum
Impression Soleil Levant - Monet - Marmottan Museum
Paris Impressionist Museum: Marmottan Museum
Paris Impressionist Museum: Marmottan Museum

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.


Monet invented impressionism

Visit Marmottan Monet Museum

The Marmottan Monet 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
Paris metro: La Muette station on line 9
Closed Mondays, 1/01,1/05,25/12
Open 10 am to 6 pm
Marmottan Museum ticket price: 10 euros.

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