The Orangerie Museum 2025 Renovation

If you enjoy Impressionism, rush to this museum as it will soon shut down for some restoration from 28 January to 2 March 2025. After that date, while the museum will reopen, the work will not be over and parts of the collection might not be visible.

If you don't know much about it, the Orangerie is a fairly small museum housing some 150 works by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists and is mostly known for Monet’s Water Lilies. The building was originally designed to shelter the orange trees from the Tuileries Gardens during winter, hence the name Orangerie.

Claude Monet himself had thought of the place when he donated his water lilies painting series to the state. With the support from his friend George Clémenceau, then a high ranking official in Paris, Monet’s vision became a reality. Sadly, the inauguration took place in 1927, six months after the passing of the artist.