Musee de l'Orangerie Tickets

The cheapest Musée de l’Orangerie tickets I found cost $15: a reserved entry ticket rated 4.7 from 7,370 reviews, the most reviewed option too. The museum sells its own tickets, €12.50 online and €11 at the museum, per musee-orangerie.fr. I’d try the museum’s own time slot first and book the $15 ticket if your date is gone. The $43 river-cruise listing only makes sense as a fallback.

I compared both Musée de l’Orangerie tickets that GetYourGuide sells for the museum this week. Neither is a guided tour: one is a plain reserved entry ticket and the other is a ticket sold with an optional one-hour Seine cruise. That keeps the decision simple, because you are really choosing between the museum’s own tickets and a reseller’s. Prices are in US dollars from the listings in November 2026, and the official prices are in euros as the museum publishes them. The booking buttons open GetYourGuide through affiliate links (see my about page).

Musée de l’Orangerie Tickets at a Glance

Here is every way to buy Musée de l’Orangerie tickets in one table, so you can see where the money goes.

What	Details
Ticket types	1 reserved entry ticket, 1 entry ticket sold with an optional Seine cruise
GetYourGuide price range	$15 to $43
Official prices	€12.50 online, €11 at the museum, €10 on Friday nights (musee-orangerie.fr)
Areas included	Permanent collection with the Water Lilies, plus temporary exhibitions
Time to allow	1 to 1.5 hours is my estimate; the cruise listing runs 2 to 3 hours with the boat
Address	Jardin des Tuileries, 75001 Paris (per Google Maps)
Hours	9 am to 6 pm, 9 pm on Friday, closed Tuesday (per Google Maps and the museum)

Neither of these Musée de l’Orangerie tickets opens more rooms than the museum’s own ticket does. The museum says its ticket gives access to the permanent collections and the temporary exhibitions, subject to availability, and both listings say the same. What you pay for on a marketplace is the booking, not extra galleries.

Musée de l’Orangerie Tickets and Prices

Musée de l’Orangerie tickets and prices on GetYourGuide start at $15, but the listing I’d flag here is the one that costs $43. It is called Musée de l’Orangerie Access With Seine River Cruise, sold by Get Paris Tours. It includes access to the temporary and permanent collections, an audio guide and, if you select that option, a one-hour Seine cruise with commentary. There is no guide in person, and the listing notes that transport is not included. It carries 3.5 stars from 245 reviews, the weakest rating of the two, and it cancels free up to 24 hours ahead.

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Musée de l'Orangerie Access With Seine River Cruise

• ★ 3.5 (245 reviews)
• 2 - 3 hours
• Free cancellation

My pick: Entry plus an optional one-hour river cruise at $43: only 3.5 from 245 reviews, free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead, and the title confuses people.

What you get, where you meet, what reviewers say

Included

• ✓ Access to the temporary and permanent collections of Musée de l'Orangerie
• ✓ Audio guide
• ✓ 1-hour Seine River cruise (if option selected)
• ✓ Cruise audio commentary (if option selected)

Not included / not suitable

• ✕ Host/Guide
• ✕ Transportation

Meeting point: Meet at Musée de l'Orangerie. Jardin des Tuileries, 75001 Paris, France

Duration: 2 - 3 hours

Cancellation: Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund

“Spectacular not to be forgotten experience in French art and culture. We were absolutely blown away. Thank you so much!” – GetYourGuide review

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The reviews explain the rating. Several buyers thought the cruise was part of the base price, and the listing itself marks it as an option you add in the app. One reviewer said the headline makes the cruise look included and told buyers to read carefully. Another wrote that the product “saved the day for our trip” when the museum was sold out and accepted paying more than the official ticket. Audio is a second sticking point: the listing includes an audio guide, but that same reviewer says none was included. Another review mentions a pre-paid ticket getting them into a quicker line.

“This activity is a savior when the museum is sold out.”

I am not converting euros to dollars, because prices move. In plain terms: the plain ticket costs about what the museum charges, and this combo costs roughly three times the museum’s own ticket, which the reviewer above also noticed. Pay it only when you want the boat as well.

Skip-the-Line Musée de l’Orangerie Tickets

Skip-the-line Musée de l’Orangerie tickets are really timed reservations. You pick an arrival slot, you show the voucher at the entrance and you join the line for pre-booked visitors instead of the ticket office. The meeting point in both listings is the museum entrance in the Jardin des Tuileries, with no guide waiting for you. The museum’s own Musée de l’Orangerie tickets work the same way for slots: on the free first Sunday of the month it states that entry within 30 minutes is guaranteed with a booked slot.

One reviewer of the cruise listing described the effect without exaggeration: with a pre-paid ticket they got into a quicker line. They also chose a 4:30 pm slot and ran out of time before closing, which matters here because last admission is 5:15 pm. The practical rule for Musée de l’Orangerie tickets is to book the earliest slot you can manage, whichever product you pick.

Official Musée de l’Orangerie Tickets or a Marketplace

The museum runs its own ticket office at billetterie.musee-orangerie.fr, and a Musée de l’Orangerie ticket bought there is the baseline for everything else on this page. It costs €12.50 for general admission online. The museum’s rates page also lists €11 at the museum, €8.50 for discounted admission at the museum, and a €20 combined ticket with the Musée d’Orsay.

A marketplace selling Musée de l’Orangerie tickets adds three things that the museum’s own page doesn’t. You can book in a language and currency you are used to, you can pair the ticket with a river cruise, and you may find a date that the museum has listed as full. The reserved GetYourGuide ticket is non-refundable, so a change of plans costs you the whole $15. The museum’s own page states its ticket is valid for one admission with no re-entry.

Musée de l’Orangerie Tickets Online

The simplest Musée de l’Orangerie tickets online on GetYourGuide are the $15 reserved entry ticket: Musée de l’Orangerie Reserved Entrance Ticket. It includes reserved ticket access and full access to the permanent collection and the temporary exhibitions. It scores 4.7 from 7,370 reviews, far more than anything else I compared. The validity is 24 hours, which means you pick the date and walk in during opening hours. You head straight to the entrance and show the voucher, and there is no guide.

Musée de l'Orangerie Reserved Entrance Ticket

• ★ 4.7 (7,370 reviews)
• 24-hour ticket

My pick: My pick: the plain reserved entry at $15, 4.7 from 7,370 reviews, full permanent and temporary access, non-refundable.

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

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Reviewers of this Musée de l’Orangerie ticket keep praising the same two things: the Water Lilies and the ease of the advance booking. One wrote that they loved the Water Lilies and that the experience was calming “especially with the advanced tickets”. Another liked being able to get close enough to see the brushstrokes.

“Truly a wonderful experience to be among Monet's greatest achievement.”

Musée de l’Orangerie Price

The Musée de l’Orangerie price depends on where and when you buy your Musée de l’Orangerie ticket. The museum’s rates page lists general admission at €12.50 purchased online and €11 purchased at the museum. The Friday night rate is €10 online and €8.50 at the museum, and Friday evenings run until 9 pm during exhibition periods. Reduced admission applies from 6 pm.

Guided tours with a museum speaker are priced apart from Musée de l’Orangerie tickets and cost €10 on top of the museum ticket, per the same page. The GetYourGuide listings I compared contain no guide at all, so they sit at the ticket level of that scale. For the cruise combo the extra $28 over the plain ticket buys a boat ride and an audio feature, not more museum.

Musée de l’Orangerie Tickets for Students

There is no student rate on the museum’s rates page, so I would not budget for one. What the page lists instead is more generous for many young visitors: entry is free under 18, and free for visitors aged 18 to 25 who are European Union citizens or long-term residents (more than three months) of the EU, with proof of identity. A non-EU student who lives outside the EU does not appear in those lists, so for that visitor Musée de l’Orangerie tickets are the standard price or the discounted €8.50 if the museum grants it at the door. I could not confirm who qualifies for the discounted rate, because the page links its list of beneficiaries separately. The GetYourGuide tickets carry no student or youth price.

Is the Musée de l’Orangerie Worth It

I think the museum is worth the price of its tickets, and mostly for one reason. The museum’s own account is that Monet offered the Water Lilies to the French State on the day after the Armistice of 11 November 1918 as a symbol of peace, and they were installed in the building in 1927, a few months after his death. The set is displayed in two elliptical rooms that Monet designed for the purpose, and Wikipedia counts eight large murals. Standing inside one is a different experience from seeing the same painter’s work on a gallery wall.

“Offered to the French State by the painter Claude Monet on the day that followed the Armistice of November 11, 1918 as a symbol for peace, the Water Lilies are installed according to plan at the Orangerie Museum in 1927, a few months after his death.”

The rest of the collection is more than a side note. The museum’s collection page presents the Walter-Guillaume collection, and the listings name Cézanne, Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso, Renoir, Rousseau and Soutine among the artists. Google Maps rates the museum 4.6 from 25,340 reviews, and the reserved ticket sits at 4.7 on GetYourGuide. Until 25 January 2027, every Musée de l’Orangerie ticket also covers the Monet, painting time exhibition, which makes this a strong season to go. Since the visit is short by my estimate, I would pair it with a walk in the Tuileries Garden.

Orangerie or Orsay: Which Is Worth Seeing

If you are choosing between the two museums, the sensible split is by size and purpose. The Orsay is the big survey: Wikipedia describes it as holding the largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, and I compare its tickets in my Musée d’Orsay tickets guide. The Orangerie is the focused visit, built around Monet’s last cycle. They stand on opposite sides of the Seine and the museums sell a combined ticket at €20 at the museum, per the rates page. A Musée de l’Orangerie ticket on its own is the better call when you want an unhurried hour with the Water Lilies and then the rest of your day.

The Louvre is the third option on the same stretch of river, and my Louvre Museum tickets page covers that side of the garden.

Opening Hours and Getting There

Per the museum and Google Maps, the Orangerie is open 9 am to 6 pm, until 9 pm on Fridays and closed on Tuesdays. The nearest metro is Concorde on lines 1, 8 and 12, which is also the stop the museum names. I put the full week, closing days and routes in my Musée de l’Orangerie opening hours guide.

Which Ticket Fits You

Here are the three Musée de l’Orangerie tickets side by side; the museum’s own is the reference.

Ticket	Kind	Price from	Duration	Areas included	Best for
Reserved Entrance Ticket	entry ticket	$15	1 day validity	Permanent collection and temporary exhibitions	Most visitors who want to book ahead
Access With Seine River Cruise (Get Paris Tours)	entry ticket with optional cruise	$43	2 to 3 hours	Both collections, audio guide, optional 1-hour cruise	Sold-out dates and a river add-on
Museum ticket (official, not on GetYourGuide)	entry ticket	€12.50 online	not stated	Permanent collection and temporary exhibitions	Visitors who find an open slot

Near Musée de l’Orangerie

The museum sits at the Place de la Concorde end of the Tuileries Garden, and the walking times below are my estimates, taken from straight-line distances multiplied by 1.3 at 4.8 km/h. Place de la Concorde is the closest, about 4 minutes, and the Tuileries Garden is about 6. The Musée d’Orsay is across the Seine and the Louvre is at the far end of the garden. The Eiffel Tower is about 35 minutes on foot, the Arc de Triomphe and Notre-Dame about 38 each, so for those I would take the metro. My Eiffel Tower tickets and Arc de Triomphe tickets pages cover both.

The Panthéon is about 42 minutes away, the Trocadéro about 41 and Sacré-Cœur about 48, all by the same estimate. The banks of the Seine in Paris are a UNESCO World Heritage site, so walking the river from the Orangerie is a fine way to link the sights.

How I’d Choose

My short list of Musée de l’Orangerie tickets, by type of visitor:

• Cheapest: the museum’s own €11 ticket at the door or €12.50 online, then the $15 reserved ticket on GetYourGuide.
• No queue and a fixed plan: the $15 Reserved Entrance Ticket, 4.7 from 7,370 reviews. Book the earliest slot.
• Sold-out date: the $43 Get Paris Tours listing, because reviewers used it when the museum’s site showed no places.
• With a river cruise: the same $43 listing, but select the cruise option in the app because it is not in the base price.
• Student or young visitor: check the museum’s free list first, since under 18s and EU-resident 18 to 25s enter free with ID.
• A free visit: the first Sunday of the month, booked in advance on the museum’s site.