paris is a wonderful city to visit and as in most cities that we travel to we've done
a good amount of walking admittedly we were initially intimidated by the huge paris metro
but we faced our fear and we found it to be very straightforward to understand
it goes everywhere in the city it made it easy to see nearly all the monuments and museums
and that's important because paris would not be paris without its celebrated monuments
the eiffel tower the arc de triomphe notre dame and the sacre-coeur we are seeing them all
we are seeing our fair share of museums as well the orangerie museum can be found in the tuileries
garden right next to the place de la concorde built in 1852 to shelter citrus fruits in winter it is now
home to the famous masterpieces of impressionist painters like cezanne matisse monet picasso renoir
and others we're at the orangerie museum in paris and it's a beautiful day today so we're excited
this is a smaller museum with a beautiful collection of impressionists we recommend you
get the audio tour which we booked in advance and we're really looking forward to a great experience
the orangerie museum is most famous for hosting eight gigantic murals of claude monet's famous
water lilies originally painted in his garden at giverny in normandy this permanent exhibition
is quite a sight to quote french artist andre masson the display is like the sistine chapel of
impressionism monet's water lily paintings stretch across entire walls of the oval-shaped galleries
on the ground floor of the museum this honors monet's vision for the paintings the idea in
his words was to create the illusion of an endless hole of water without horizon or bank the magic of
these paintings is that each piece depicts the same scene but at different times of day during
different seasons and different weather so we just finished with the water lilies room here
at the museum and it's really a neat experience you immerse yourself in these huge paintings
they ask everybody to be quiet because that's the way monet wanted it to be experienced and
most people are pretty quiet there's a lot of people in there but it's a neat experience
to just sit down and immerse yourself in the yard there are two floors of art one floor
dedicated to monet's masterpiece and one floor featuring the rest of the permanent collection
each section of the lower gallery is designated to a specific artist
and the wall text describes each painting but we strongly suggest you pay for the audio guide
which walks you through the pieces honestly i struggled a bit with the contemporary art
but the art here at the orangerie is just my jam i love the impressionist especially the works by
monet which were just amazing to me don't skip this lovely museum on your next visit to paris
the museum is actually quite small making it possible to see everything in one visit
that leaves you with more than enough energy to visit a grand museum in paris
that houses more of monet's works as well as others by the greatest artists in history
we're at the musee d'orsay in paris and it's arguably one of the top museums beyond the louvre
here so we've got reserved tickets and we've got a tour that we're going to go
on that's in english and we're looking forward to exploring the museum today
we saw powerful works by heavy hitters like picasso van gogh seurat and toulouse-lautrec
the orsay museum is in this incredible train station that was opened in 1900 for the world's
fair it was a big deal because it allowed people from all over southwest france to
come to paris and to the fair it was used as a train station for years but then as time changed
the need for a train station was less and less and trains were modernized
so in the 70s the government decided to dedicate a museum here and in the 80s the
orsay was open so we're looking forward to a really nice visit in this beautiful space today
we completed the tour and it was really nice to have an english-speaking guide explain to us not
only the museum but the different artists through different periods of time in the
second half of the 19th century which is what this collection is where this collection is from so a
particular interest were of course all the famous artists but you'll remember we looked at monet
and the iran jury and seeing kind of the complete views of his work from here and hearing the
stories and then it completing in what's happening in the orangerie was a really neat experience
we love how paris blurs the line between the structures that people live
and work in with the art it fills them with and all of it is easily accessible via metro
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