How to visit Monet's House and Gardens in Giverny: what to see, schedules

If you are passionate about impressive paint, Monet House Museum en Giverny, in the French region of Normandy, it is an essential visit.

And if you like garden landscapes overflowing with flowers, too.

In fact, a good way to start a Normandy route just as we have done recently, is to visit this corner that will take you back to the time of the impressionist painters.

Or it could also be an excursion from Paris, since Giverny It is located just over an hour from the French capital, following the course of the Seine river.

During the visit you will be able to delve deeper into the figure of Claude Monet, the most important representative of the impressive paint, an artistic movement that developed in France and then in other places in Europe, from the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.

En Giverny you can visit what was his family home now converted into a museum, and the grounds than his own Many designed alongside it.

Curiosities history of Monet's house in Giverny

Many came to this house Giverny at 43 years old, a time when he had financial difficulties because his paintings were not bought.

He lived there since 1883 with his family after the death of his first wife, both with his two children and with his second wife and his six children.

Next to this house he designed gardens that were used to paint his later famous works of gardens and flowers, in line with the impressionists' purpose of portraying nature.

After a trip to the United States, his pictorial work began to be valued by North Americans and Many began to overcome his financial difficulties

This allowed him to expand his garden with the installation of a typical japanese garden, which included corners as special as a pond.

Now Monet House Museum in Giverny It has become a true pilgrimage site for fans of the artist's work and impressionism, and we have had the experience of visiting.

This is what a visit to the Monet House Museum is like (our experience)

At visit of Monet's house in GivernyAt first you will tour the interior of the building, walking through its different rooms and seeing the furniture and colorful decoration that the building itself Many elected.

Later you will walk through the large gardens that extend in front of the building's façade, which are completely replanted every year.

With this planting we always try to replicate what the gardens were like as he designed them. Monet.

For this, as well as for the design of the house, numerous photos have been used in which Many was the protagonist, some of which you can see during the visit.

On this walk through the gardens, you will be struck by the fact that they are completely full of flowers, and, of course, the aforementioned Japanese garden which he himself carefully designed next to the original gardens on land adjacent to them.

During your walk, you will reach the Japanese garden by crossing a tunnel that passes under the road that currently separates both gardens.

Monet House Museum and Gardens in Giverny Opening Hours

La Monet's house and gardens They open to the public every year on April 1 and close to visitors on November 1, so the winter season is used to carry out the aforementioned complete replanting of the gardens.

Los Visiting schedule They are from 9,30:18 a.m. to XNUMX p.m.

Los ticket prices to visit Monet's House and gardens General admission is 12 euros; children and students are 6,50 euros; and children under 7 are free.

Museum of Impressionism in Giverny

To complete this cultural visit, together with the Monet's house You can visit the Giverny Impressionism Museum, in which they are shown Temporary exhibitions that deepen the knowledge of this artistic movement.

Los Visiting schedule They are every day, from 10 a.m. to 18 p.m., with last access at 17,30:XNUMX p.m.

Here you can consult the Giverny Impressionism Museum ticket prices, and you can also purchase combined tickets with the Monet House Museum.

Map: where Giverny is and how to get there

La Monet's House Museum in Giverny It is located just over an hour northwest of Paris, where you can reach it on your route by car to Normandy or on a guided tour from Paris.