The Orangerie Museum (Musée de l’Orangerie), situated inside the Tuileries garden, is a little museum with surprising collections. They are particularly emphasized by the Water Lilies (Les Nymphéas) by Claude Monet, a series of 250 impressionist paintings depicting the artist’s flower garden at Giverny.
The Orangerie Museum has 8 paintings of that series. They are known to be a shelter for quiet meditation, the kind of paintings that calms and frees the mind. The big frames, the colors mixed with subtle plays of light, and the feeling of a painting that steps out of its frame won’t let anyone unmoved.
