Musée Maison de Claude Monet

Enter the maze of trickling water and beautiful flora to Monet’s ‘water garden,’ where he diverted a small stream to create a still bed of lilies, the subject of his iconic series. Monet meticulously planned the adjacent flower garden envisioning the outcome in terms of how a painting of it would be composed. Every square foot of space, bursting with color and life, seems to be the perfect picture, until you enter a space more beautiful than the former. You may be reluctant to leave the outdoors and enter the home in which Monet spent roughly half of his life, but this stirring replica sheds light on Monet’s inspirations and displays his interior décor aesthetic, far ahead of its time.