The Musée de l'Orangerie displays an array of early 20th-century paintings, including several of Claude Monet's water lillies series and works by other French painters such as Cézanne, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso, and Modigliani.

Six great intellectuals recently described the museum chosen and arranged by Claude Monet to showcase his "testamentary" masterpieces as "Unique in its genre". Next to the Nymphéas, "the haven of peaceful meditation", a gift to modern man with his "overworked nerves", the Orangerie offers a fabulous concentration of masterpieces from the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection. This collection is a highly original insight into modern art featuring Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso, Rousseau, Matisse, Derain, Modigliani, Soutine, Utrillo and Laurencin.

Closed for renovation work since January 2000, completely reviewed and restructured, the museum was reopened to the public in May 2006.

view the official website for the Musée de l'Orangerie.