The Musée de l’Orangerie is the place to see Monet’s Water Lillies, or Nympheas. After a recent renovation, you will see the paintings as Monet intended for them to be seen, under diffused natural light with the paintings surrounding you in oval-shaped galleries. In the other galleries of the museum, some of the world’s finest Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings hang, including examples by Soutine, Picasso, Modigliani, Cézanne, Matisse, and many others. The Orangerie may be a famous museum now, but it was originally built for housing citrus trees during the winter for the now-destroyed Tuileries Palace along the Seine River. Directly across the park, you’ll find another museum, the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, which was originally an indoor tennis court but now houses France’s photographic and film collections. Today, it is a close walk to the Louvre Museum, along with hotels in Paris near the Place de la Concorde and the Champs-Elysées.