Musée de l’Orangerie

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art museum cultural institution museum

The Musée de l’Orangerie is a renowned Paris art museum best known for housing Claude Monet’s monumental Water Lilies murals in specially designed oval rooms.

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Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	art museum → cultural institution → museum →
architect	Firmin Bourgeois → Ludovico Visconti →
bestKnownFor	Claude Monet’s Water Lilies murals →
buildingMaterial	stone →
city	Paris →
collectionType	Impressionism → Post-Impressionism → École de Paris →
constructionEnd	1853 →
constructionStart	1852 →
continent	Europe →
convertedToMuseum	1927 →
country	France →
exhibits	Claude Monet’s Water Lilies cycle →
exhibitsWorkBy	Amedeo Modigliani → André Derain → Claude Monet → Henri Matisse → Marie Laurencin → Maurice Utrillo → Pablo Picasso → Paul Cézanne → Pierre-Auguste Renoir →
foundedAs	orangerie of the Tuileries Palace →
galleryType	impressionist art gallery →
hasCategory	Art museums and galleries in Paris → National museums of France →
hasFeature	two oval rooms designed for Water Lilies →
hasRenovation	major renovation 2000–2006 →
hasWebsite	https://www.musee-orangerie.fr →
heritageStatus	listed historic monument of France →
housesCollection	Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection →
locatedIn	1st arrondissement of Paris → Paris → Tuileries Garden →
locatedNear	Musée du Louvre → Musée d’Orsay → Seine →
locatedOn	Place de la Concorde →
openingDateAsMuseum	1927 →
operator	Musée d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie public institution →
originalFunction	winter shelter for orange trees →
owner	French state →
region	Île-de-France →
reopeningAfterRenovation	2006 →
roofType	glass roof →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
French state (for Orangerie decorations) ("Musée de l'Orangerie") → French state (for Orangerie decorations) ("Orangerie water lily rooms") →	commissionedFor
French state (for Orangerie decorations) ("Musée de l'Orangerie") →	beneficiaryInstitution
École du Louvre →	closelyLinkedTo
Tuileries Garden ("Orangerie Museum") →	contains
Water Lilies (Monet) →	exhibited at
Musée d'Orsay ("Établissement public du musée d'Orsay et du musée de l'Orangerie") →	operatedBy