Paris Small-Group Trip to Giverny: Claude Monet's House and Gardens and Musée des Impressionnismes

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Stop At: Fondation Claude Monet, 84 Rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny France

Thanks to skip the line access, the guide shares the calm and almost other worldly beauty of Claude Monet’s Home and Gardens. Learn about the famous Impressionist and enjoy to explore inside his colored home, stroll along the charming paths of his flower garden, and admire the water garden with the little green bridge and lake full of his famous water lilies.
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The House and Gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny
Pierce the secrets of one of the pillars of Impressionism, Claude Monet. Leader of the pictorial movement of the 19th century, he brought a wind a change to academic representative art introducing heightened perception, emotions and light. The painter devoted more than forty years of his life to one of his finest masterpieces: his garden in Giverny
The Clos Normand
The artist gardener sought to transform a simple orchard into magnificent colorful garden: Japanese cherry trees, flowerbeds of nasturtiums, tulips and roses, an explosion of colors for each season.
The Water Garden
Wander through the romantic water garden, with its famous Japanese bridge, the wisterias, the water-lilies pond, the weeping willows and irises... Behold this living picture with its profusion of reflected light and colors.
The House
Visit the master's charming pink house where a family atmosphere reigned. Discover the painter's everyday life surrounded by eight children: the drawing room, the pantry, the bedroom, the study, the dining room and the beautiful kitchen...Admire his collection of Japanese prints, another source of inspiration.

The Studio
End your visit with the big studio where the famous water-lilies paintings saw the light of day. These paintings are exhibited at the Orangerie Museum in Paris

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Musee des impressionnismes, 99 rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny France

A fine tribute to all the impressionists in the world, discover the Musée des Impressionnismes and its garden in Giverny. This Museum presents the history of the emblematic artistic movement in a futuristic listed garden. Designed by the landscape architect Mark Rudkin this contemporary garden has been listed as an Outstanding garden in 2009 and bears many references to impressionist colors and themes.

The permanent exhibition entitled "Autour de Claude Monet" offers an insight into "the influence of the works of Claude Monet on his contemporaries and on succeeding generations". This gallery pays tribute to one of the founders of the movement.

Beautifully designed, these temporary exhibitions, present different perspectives of the Impressionist movement.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Normandy Melody, Paris France

An Exclusive Experience to discover one of the most beautiful garden in France with the afternoon light. An incredible place, rich of inspirations for the artist, Claude Monet.

Duration: 3 hours