Musée de l'Orangerie: Monet, Painting Time Exhibition Fast-Track Timed Tickets

Explore Monet at Musée de l'Orangerie with fast-track timed entry to the permanent Nymphéas and the temporary Monet, Painting Time exhibition.

Getting started

Arrive at the Musée de l'Orangerie and use your fast-track timed entry to access the museum at your reserved time. Present your ticket at the entrance and proceed directly inside without joining the general purchase line. Once inside, follow the signs to begin with either the permanent collection or the Monet, Painting Time exhibition, depending on your preference.

What to expect

Musée de l'Orangerie: Monet, Painting Time exhibition

This temporary exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie marks the centenary of Claude Monet's death and centers on his relationship with time. The itinerary brings together paintings from key series to explore how Monet responded to modernity, changing light, and the immediacy of each moment.

Features

• Almost forty Monet paintings are on display, with works drawn from the Musée d’Orsay, Musée Marmottan Monet, and additional French and international public and private collections. The exhibition focuses on series including Les cathédrales, Les meules, Les peupliers, Matinée sur la Seine, and Cathédrale de Rouen.

• The exhibition itinerary reflects on the acceleration of time in the modern era and how Monet captured shifting light and atmosphere across sequences of canvases. Special emphasis is placed on his Nymphéas, or Water Lilies, as a culmination of his exploration of duration and perception.

• Admission to the Monet Painting Time exhibition includes access to events, talks, and workshops around the show, with some activities requiring separate booking. Adult guided tours in English are available on specific dates, giving additional context to Monet’s late work and the curatorial themes.

• Late night Friday access during the exhibition period allows you to visit during exceptional evening hours from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Accessibility features support visitors with reduced mobility, difficulty walking, hearing impairments, visual impairments, intellectual disability, or psychological disability.

Musée de l'Orangerie: Nymphéas decorations and permanent collection

Beyond the temporary exhibition, the Musée de l'Orangerie is the home of Monet’s Nymphéas decorations. Your visit also includes the broader permanent collection, where the large Water Lilies panels and other works are presented as a permanent environment.

Features

• Entry to the permanent collection including Nymphéas Water Lilies gives you access to Monet’s large-scale Water Lilies cycle as installed at the Musée de l'Orangerie. The museum’s role as the home of the Nymphéas decorations connects the permanent display with the themes explored in Monet, Painting Time.

• Fast-track timed entry to Musée de l'Orangerie lets you plan your arrival in advance and spend your time inside the galleries rather than in ticket lines. Once inside, you can move at your own pace between the Nymphéas rooms and the rest of the museum spaces.

• Accessibility features for diverse disabilities apply across the museum visit, including for reduced mobility, visitors with companions, hard of hearing guests with hearing aids, visually impaired or blind visitors with guide dogs, deaf sign language users, and visitors with intellectual or psychological disabilities.

Wrapping up

If you select the Orangerie Fast-Track Timed Ticket + Monet Virtual Reality Experience option, your visit also includes a 20-minute Claude Monet virtual reality experience titled Claude Monet, along the water, available on specific dates and scheduled around your museum entry.