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museum, Paris, France
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The Orangerie museum in Paris, France, is primarily known for housing Claude Monet's Water Lilies series. These approximately 250 oil paintings, created between the late 1890s and 1926, focus on the water lily pond in Monet's Giverny garden.1

In 1914, Monet began working on a large-scale decorative scheme using these canvases. The works were eventually installed in two oval rooms at the Orangerie, which were specially built to accommodate them. The museum reopened to the public in 2006 after extensive restoration, offering visitors an immersive experience of Monet's "enchanted pond".1

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