The Monet museum

Claude Monet’s property in Giverny was bequeathed by his son Michel to the Beaux Art Academy in 1966 .

Thanks to the generous donations by American and French sponsors and the Conseil General de l’Eure, the property was restored, directed by Mr G VAN DER K of the Institut de France assisted by Mr Gilbert VAHE head gardener,it became the Foundation Claude Monet from 1980.

The house with its rose crepi, was lived in by Monet from 1883 to 1926, has been restored to its original design. In many rooms one can see Monet’s rare etchings in their initial settings. The nympheas studio was also restored. It now houses the Foundation’s shop.

The garden has been restored too and shows the visitors the inspiration for “painting after the nature itself” that Monet’s contemporaries considered masterpieces. In front of the house and the studios, the rectilinear path of the Norman enclosure, with its flowering arches encircled with magnificent bushes offers from spring to autumn the changing palette of a painter-gardener.

Finally, shaded by the weeping willows, the water garden and its famous Japanese bridge, formed by a diversion of the river Epte, it is here that the visitor can admire the wisteria, azaleas, and the pond which becomes again this case of sky and water that gives birth to the pictorial universe of the nympheas.

- La Fondation est ouverte du 1er avril au 31 octobre.

- Tous les jours, sauf le lundi de 9h30 à 18h00.


- Tarif

ENFANTS - DE 7 ANS GRATUITS
ENFANTS - DE 12 ANS 3 €
ETUDIANTS 4 €
HANDICAPES 3 €
ADULTES & 3EME AGE 5,5 €

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