The Musée de l’Orangerie opening hours are 9 am to 6 pm on most days, 9 pm on Fridays and closed on Tuesdays, per the museum’s visit page and Google Maps. Last admission is 5:15 pm. This guide gives the Musée de l’Orangerie opening hours by day, the getting-there details and what to know at the door. If you want to book, my Musée de l’Orangerie tickets page compares the options.
Musée de l’Orangerie Opening Hours
Today, Saturday 7 November 2026, the museum shows 9 am to 6 pm on its own site and on Google Maps. The week looks like this:
Day
Hours
Monday
9 am to 6 pm
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
9 am to 6 pm
Thursday
9 am to 6 pm
Friday
9 am to 9 pm
Saturday
9 am to 6 pm
Sunday
9 am to 6 pm
Google Maps and the museum agree on every day, so there is nothing to reconcile in the Musée de l’Orangerie opening hours. The official page adds what a map listing can’t: last admission at 5:15 pm, galleries closing at 5:45 pm, and the closures on 1 May, the morning of 14 July and 25 December. If the two ever differ, trust the museum.
Musée de l’Orangerie Hours on Fridays
The Friday column in the Musée de l’Orangerie opening hours is the one that differs from the rest of the week. The Friday opening deserves its own heading because it changes the visit. During exhibition periods the museum stays open until 9 pm, and the reduced rate applies from 6 pm. On those nights the last admission is 8:15 pm and the galleries are cleared by 8:45 pm. The museum’s Friday night page says the evenings run every Friday while Monet, painting time is on, with dates listed to 22 January 2027, and a time-slot rate of €10.
The same page lists the late slot as lasting three hours, which fits the idea of a slow evening with the Water Lilies. Outside exhibition periods, assume the normal 6 pm close until the museum says otherwise.
Musée de l’Orangerie Hours of Operation Around the Year
The table above has no seasonal split, so the Musée de l’Orangerie opening hours don’t change between summer and winter in the data I could read. What does change is the exhibition programme. The current Musée de l’Orangerie opening hours apply to the exhibitions too: Monet, painting time runs from 30 September 2026 to 25 January 2027, and Vija Celmins is on until 15 February 2027, per the museum’s home page. The Water Lilies rooms are permanent.
Musée de l’Orangerie Entry Fee
The entry fee sits outside the Musée de l’Orangerie opening hours, but the two decide the same thing: when you go. The entry fee is €12.50 for general admission bought online and €11 bought at the museum, per the museum’s rates page. The page lists a €10 Friday night rate online, €8.50 for discounted admission, and a €20 combined ticket with the Musée d’Orsay. Entry is free on the first Sunday of the month with a reservation, for visitors under 18 and for visitors aged 18 to 25 who are EU citizens or long-term EU residents, with ID. Each ticket is valid for one admission and does not allow re-entry.
On GetYourGuide the cheapest way in is a $15 reserved entry ticket; the full comparison is in my Musée de l’Orangerie tickets guide.
Best Time to Visit the Musée de l’Orangerie
The museum doesn’t publish its quietest hours, so any advice on crowds is a guess, and the Musée de l’Orangerie opening hours leave you only one real lever: the time of day you enter. What I can support is this: the earliest slot gives you the most time, because last admission is 5:15 pm and one reviewer entering at 4:30 pm ran out of time. A reviewer of the reserved ticket also wrote that they were glad to be in the first group to visit and that the flow felt easy and comfortable. The Friday evening opening, with its reduced rate, is the other option worth weighing.
For weather, Open-Meteo data for 2025 shows how the year splits in Paris. January had 17 rainy days and July 15, while March, April and August had only 7 each. April brought 11 hours of sunshine on average per day, against 2.7 in January. The Orangerie is an indoor museum, so rain matters less than for the Eiffel Tower, but the Tuileries Garden outside is at its best in the drier months. The figures come from Open-Meteo’s historical weather API.
How to Get to the Musée de l’Orangerie
The address is Jardin des Tuileries, Place de la Concorde on the Seine side, 75001 Paris. The museum names Concorde as its metro stop, served by lines 1, 8 and 12, and the bus stop Concorde, with lines 42, 45, 72, 73, 84 and 94. Concorde metro is about 300 metres away per Google Maps coordinates, roughly 5 minutes on foot by my estimate (straight-line distance multiplied by 1.3 at 4.8 km/h). The Assemblée Nationale metro station is about 6 minutes by the same estimate, and Tuileries about 9.
For Vélib’, the museum lists the Cambon-Rivoli, Alger-Rivoli, Assemblée Nationale and Musée d’Orsay stations. Parking bicycles and scooters inside the Tuileries Garden is prohibited and may result in removal, so use the racks at Place de la Concorde. The taxi stand is at 252 rue de Rivoli. Plan the journey so you arrive before your slot, and for route times on the day, the RATP site is the source I’d use.
Musée de l’Orangerie Entrance
The main entrance faces the garden, and visitors with reduced mobility use the entrance to the left of it, per the museum’s accessibility page. The GetYourGuide tickets send you to the same place: both meeting points read Jardin des Tuileries, 75001 Paris, and the reserved ticket says to head straight to the entrance and show your voucher. Visitors with a disability and a companion get free priority entry on proof, and may reserve in advance without having to.
What to Know Before You Go
Before you plan around the Musée de l’Orangerie opening hours, remember that they are the gallery times, not the ticket-office times of resellers; your voucher shows its own entry slot. Each ticket gives one admission to the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions, subject to availability, with no re-entry. A free printed floor plan is at reception, and the museum also publishes a guide map as a PDF. The cloakroom, bag and security rules sit on pages I could not read, so check the museum’s site on the day for those. The museum also sells guided tours and workshops for €10 on top of the entry ticket, and an English guided tour of the masterpieces from Monet to Picasso is on its programme.
For one slot I’d book without thinking too hard, take this one:
Musée de l'Orangerie Reserved Entrance Ticket
★4.7 (7,370 reviews)
24-hour ticket
My pick: If I had to book one slot: the $15 reserved entry, 4.7 from 7,370 reviews, full permanent and temporary access, non-refundable. Choose the earliest time.
What you get, where you meet, what reviewers say
Included
✓ Reserved ticket access for Orangerie Museum
✓ Full access to the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions.
Meeting point: Head straight to the entrance of the Musée de l'Orangerie and show your voucher. Jardin Tuileries, 75001 Paris, France
Duration: 1 day
Cancellation: This activity is non-refundable
“Just loved the Mus’ee de L’Orangerie. The water lilies were amazing to see and the experience so calming especially with the advanced tickets. Recommend to put it on your list of places to visit in Paris” – GetYourGuide review
Once you’ve seen the Water Lilies, the Musée d’Orsay is across the river and I compare its tickets in my Musée d’Orsay tickets guide. If your plans change, the Musée de l’Orangerie opening hours above are the first thing to recheck, because closures such as Tuesday are fixed. My home page lists the other Paris attractions I’ve covered. Every Musée de l’Orangerie ticket I compared is on the hub page, with prices and cancellation rules side by side.
Frequently asked questions
What are the Musée de l'Orangerie opening hours?+
The museum is open 9 am to 6 pm on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, and 9 am to 9 pm on Friday, per its own hours page and Google Maps. It is closed on Tuesday. The Friday late opening runs during exhibition periods, and Monet, painting time has Friday nights listed until 22 January 2027.
What is the last entry at the Musée de l'Orangerie?+
Last admission is at 5:15 pm and the galleries close at 5:45 pm on a normal day. On a late Friday the last admission is 8:15 pm and visitors must leave the galleries by 8:45 pm. Both times come from the museum's hours page.
Is the Musée de l'Orangerie open on Tuesday?+
No. The museum is closed every Tuesday, and its hours page also lists 1 May, the morning of 14 July and 25 December as closures. The Friday evening list on its site shows 25 December as a date, so check the museum's page before planning around that day.
How long do you need at the Musée de l'Orangerie?+
I would allow one to one and a half hours, which is my own estimate: the museum gives no recommended length. A reviewer who entered at 4:30 pm wrote that they could have used more time, and that the gift shop closed with the galleries, so an earlier slot gives you room.
What is the nearest metro to the Musée de l'Orangerie?+
Concorde, on lines 1, 8 and 12, which is the station the museum names. By my estimate from Google Maps coordinates it is about 5 minutes on foot. The museum also lists buses 42, 45, 72, 73, 84 and 94 to the Concorde stop.
When is the Musée de l'Orangerie free?+
On the first Sunday of every month, with an online time slot reservation required except for Carte Blanche members. Visitors under 18 and visitors aged 18 to 25 who are EU citizens or long-term EU residents also enter free with proof of identity, per the museum's rates page.
