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Welcome to Giverny 1  -  Claude Monet's house & garden

Welcome to Giverny 2 - other interesting places and practical information

Vernon :
The historic centre 1

Vernon :
The historic centre 2

Vernon : Tourelles Castle and the Old Mill

Vernon :
Chateau de Bizy

Vernon :
A.G. Poulain Museum

Giverny :
Museum of mechanical engineering

Other places to see in the neighbourhood

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VERNON'S HALF-TIMBERED HOUSES

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After this visit - almost a pilgrimage - why not stroll along the village streets lined with old houses - lots of which adorned with flowers - and see the places where so many painters lived ?
The pilgrimage can go as far as the village church - a nice little country church dedicated to Saint Radegonde, with an 11th century choir - surrounded by churchyard where Claude Monet is buried. (His tomb is on the right hand side when entering).

Two hundred metres away from Monet's house, on the right hand side, you will see the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny. This Museum reminds visitors that Giverny has a special place in both French and American art history. In 1890, Monet's fame had spread across the Atlantic and growing numbers of American artists came to stay in the village for weeks, months, years or even for ever, like Theodore Butler who married Monet's step-daughter, Suzanne Hoschedé. These painters sought the presence of the Impressionist master and the glimmering light and misty landscapes of the countryside, made famous in his paintings.


La Maison Rose, with (probably) Blanche Hoschedé, one of Monet's step-daughters, busy painting.

The buildings of the Museum, conceived by cabinet Reichen and Robert, project superintendent of the Grande Halle of the Villette, attempts to respect and emphasize the typical landscape site of the valley of the Seine whose meadows, orchards, terraces, hedges are the large components.

The collections and the exposures are renewed each year and even several times in the season, so that, as often as come a visitor, there is something to discover again.

 

August 23rd – October 31st, 2009
Joan Mitchell

Born in Chicago, the artist spent most of her life at Vétheuil, a few kilometres from Giverny, two key villages in Monet’s artistic development.

Her  large-sized, brightly-coloured and dynamic abstract painting  is fundamentally in harmony with nature (The  Great Valley, Sunflowers, Lime-Trees, Fields), nature that surrounded her studio at Vétheuil, offering her also panoramic views over the river Seine.

Fifteen years after  the last French retrospective  of her work at  Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris and   Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes the  Musée des Impressionnismes  Giverny  exhibits  Joan Mitchell’s work.

With over thirty  monumental paintings from France and the United States, together with a  detailed  catalogue, this retrospective gives a complete and  thrilling insight into Joan Mitchell’s work from  1950 to 1992.

 

Exposures in 2010

Impressionism with the wire of the Seine - of April 1 to July 18, 2010.
Exposure within the framework of the festival " Impressionist Normandy " in partnership with the Museum d' Orsay, www.musee-orsay.fr

Maximilien Luce - of July 28 to October 31, 2010.

 

 

Founded by Daniel J. Terra in 1992, the Musée d’Art Américain Giverny created a series of unprecedented programs during the sixteen years of its existence – outstanding exhibitions, publications, colloquia, conferences, and residencies for artists and art historians that all focused on American art.

In order to further develop its activities outside the United States, the Terra Foundation for American Art will open a Center in Paris in 2009. The Center will provide access to resources on American art, with a specialized library, and will play the role of initiator and facilitator for projects concerning historic American art (from the Colonial Period to the 1980s). The Paris Center will also develop cultural projects (exhibitions, colloquia and public programs, academic research and teaching) with European cultural institutions through grants or partnerships.

At the same time, the Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny will open in May 2009 under the aegis of the Conseil Général de l’Eure, de la Seine Maritime, and of the region Haute

 New exhibitions are presented every year and even several times in the same year so that, no matter how often a visitor may come, he or she has always something new to discover.

The museum also proposes various activities ( lectures on art, detailed study of some of the paintings, visits of Le Hameau gardens, etc…)

Even if you do not wish to visit this museum (it would be a pity not to, first because  the exhibits are most interesting but also because the visit of  this museum and of Monet’s garden are complementary) you are advised to enter its garden through the first gate and walk to the other end, parallel to the village street (free admission). It is a modern garden, quite different from Monet's but it will certainly delight you.

Designed by garden designer Mark Rudkin, the The whole garden is divided into little squares surrounded by hedges composed of beech trees and thujas. Each square has a single dominant colour: after the white garden, with water gurgling down a pond, there follows a square for herbs, another full of roses; a blue square and a pink one lead the visitors to the western part of the garden where wild flowers and plants are an introduction to a larger meadow sown with poppies.

Another almost legendary place is the former Hotel Baudy. Discovered in 1886 (or 1885) by the American painter Willard Metcalf, Mrs Baudy's small café became famous thanks to the numerous artists, among who were Cézanne and Rodin, coming to Giverny in search of inspiration.


Hotel Baudy around 1900

Hôtel Baudy is not a museum but a coffee-shop and restaurant and, in order to visit the garden, you may be asked to have a drink. But one or two euros for a coffee and a visit is really very cheap to be able to walk in the garden with winding alleys lined with many different kinds of flowers that take visitors up to the top of the hill. And the innumerable varieties of old roses, bending under their own weight will suggest the charm of bygonegardens and the nostalgia of the " Belle Époque " in the 1900's).


The 1886 studio in the garden of Hotel Baudy

Do take advantage of your stay here to have a look at the galleries of today's artists who work in Giverny, Patrick Hans, Claude Cambour, Christophe Demarez, Gale Benett, Jacqueline Gougis and many others. Like Monet, they enjoy a kind of microclimate with so specific a light that the Master said: "I am delighted, Giverny is a splendid place."

A splendid place, indeed!


The Epte valley in Giverny painted by Monet in 1889

 

Tourist Information,

Opening hours and price

Parking

Two mandatory but free car parks are located on each side of the main road. (An underground passage allows pedestrians to cross safely.)
From Vernon, the car park on the left (N°6 on the map) is for cars. Heavier vehicles (including campers and caravans) have to use the one on the right (N°7) This is also where the bus shuttles to and from Vernon stop.

Where to start the visit

Whether they arrive by car, bus, bike or on foot, visitors are advised to proceed to the Tourist Information Desk named here 'Point Info' (usually open from 9h30 onward) located in the centre of the car park for cars (N°5) where they can find all the information they require.

Then walk up to the end of the car park, to a gate leading into the street (rue Claude Monet). From there, Monet's house and gardens are about 200 m on the right and the Musée des Impressionismes is in front, across the road. In the same street , but on the left, the former Hotel Baudy is about 200 m away and the church another 200m farther.

Once you have finished visiting, walk back to the Musée des Impressionismes, opposite which is the gate you came through when you arrived, giving access to the car park(s).

Claude Monet Foundation

84, rue Claude Monet - 27620 - Giverny -   ÿ  http://www.fondation-monet.com/ 
( : 33 (0) 2 32 51 28 21- 6  Fax : 33 (0) 2 32 51 54 18
. contact@fondation-monet.com

Open every day from April 1 to October 31 from 10h to 18h. (No tickets are sold after 17h30)
Tickets :

Adults : 6€ (garden and house) - 4€ (garden only)
Adults : 6 € - Special prices for children, students, disabled people and groups
Special prices for children, students, disabled people and groups

Inside the gardens, access to the water garden is through an underground passage located, at the far end of the garden away from the house, on the right.
Please note that visitors may not come back into the garden again after they have left.

Musée des Impressionismes

99, rue Claude Monet - 27620 Giverny, France -

ÿ  http://www.museedesimpressionnismesgiverny.com/
( : 33 (0) 2 32 51 94 65  -  6 : 33 (0) 2 32 51 94 67   -  . contact@maag.org

Horaires
May 1st - -July 13th : open every day (10h - 18h).

July 14th – November 1st : open every day, except Mondays (10h - 18h).

Tickets :
Adults : 5,5€
Special prices for children, students, disabled people and groups.

Former Hotel Baudy
Restring museum
81, rue Claude Monet - 27620 Giverny  -
( &  6 : 33 (0) 2 32 21 10 0 -  . baudy@giverny.fr
Open every day (except Mondays) from April 1 to October 31 from 9h30 to late at nigh.

 

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Other pages in English about Monet and Giverny :

The making of Monet's garden : how Monet designed his garden over the years
Giverny, where crossbreeding takes place
List of plants and flowers in Monet's garden
Calendar of flowering times
Giverny, an American colony : the painters who came to work in Giverny in Monet's time.
Monet, the Seine and Normandy

Did you know there were other " Givernys " in the world ?
Visit
Monet's garden in Kitagawa (Japan)
and
 an American Giverny', Old Lyme ( USA)

To end your visit to Giverny : a nice walk in the hills above the village