Things to do in Giverny go beyond Monet’s garden. The village street holds a museum of impressionism, the church where Monet is buried and the old inn of the painters. A short drive takes you to Vernon and La Roche-Guyon. Plan them round Giverny tour, or give yourself a whole day.
Everything in the village sits on or near rue Claude Monet. Use this table to fit the extras round your garden ticket. Prices are each place’s own for 2026.
| Place | Where | Adult ticket | Open | On a tour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Musée des impressionnismes | 99 rue Claude Monet, Giverny | €12 (€9 reduced); under 18 free | 10 am-6 pm on its opening days, to 1 November | Free time on the coach days |
| Sainte-Radegonde church and Monet's grave | Rue Claude Monet, Giverny | Free | The churchyard, any time | A stop on several small-group days |
| Ancien Hôtel Baudy | 81 rue Claude Monet, Giverny | Free to walk in; a restaurant | Tuesday to Sunday in the season | Free time on some days |
| Blanche Hoschedé-Monet museum | Vernon, 5 km | €5.50 | Tuesday to Sunday; closed on public holidays | Not a stop |
| Château de La Roche-Guyon | Up the Seine, towards Vétheuil | €9.50 | Every day, 1 April-1 November, 10 am-6 pm | A stop on one private day |
On a half-day tour you get the garden and perhaps an hour in the village. For the museums in Vernon or La Roche-Guyon, you need a car, a bike or a private day.
The Musée des impressionnismes stands at 99 rue Claude Monet, a short walk up the street from the house. It opened in 1992 as a museum of American art and took its present name in 2009. It tells the story of impressionism and how far it travelled.
An adult ticket costs €12, or €9 reduced, and under-18s go free. It opens 10 am to 6 pm on its opening days, with last admission at 5.30 pm. Entry is free for everyone on the first Sunday of April, May, June, October and November.
In 2026 it shows an invitation to Daniel Buren, “Plantations”, from 17 July to 1 November. The whole museum is accessible, toilets included, and it lends wheelchairs. Large bags are not allowed. The Fondation sells a combined ticket with the gardens for €25.
Compare the Giverny tours that leave you time in the village after the gardens.
The village church is Sainte-Radegonde, on the street that now bears Monet’s name. Monet is buried in the small churchyard beside it. Several small-group days stop here after the gardens, for ten to thirty minutes.
Entry costs nothing. Keep your voice down: the churchyard is still the village’s own.
From about 1887, American painters came to Giverny, drawn by the landscape and by Monet. The Hôtel Baudy was the centre of their life. One of them, Theodore Earl Butler, married Monet’s stepdaughter Suzanne Hoschedé in the village in 1892.
Today the Ancien Hôtel Baudy is a restaurant at 81 rue Claude Monet. Walk through to its garden, with a rose garden on the slope and the painters’ old studio. Its walls still hang with paintings. See where to eat in Giverny for its menu and hours.
The tourist office points to the art galleries in Giverny’s small streets. Several are run by working painters, and you can often meet the artist. Push a door open on your way back from the church.
Readers of Michel Bussi’s novel Black Water Lilies will know the village: the 2011 thriller is set here, and its places are real.
Vernon is the town across the Seine, 5 km away, with the railway station. Its old timber mill stands on the piers of the old bridge. You see it from outside only: the inside is closed to the public.
The Blanche Hoschedé-Monet museum in Vernon shows painters who followed Monet to the Seine, among them Theodore Earl Butler and Pierre Bonnard. Its prize is a round Water Lilies canvas by Monet. An adult pays €5.50, and it is free for under-26s and for everyone on the first Sunday of the month.
It opens Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am to 12.30 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm, and closes on Mondays and public holidays. A pass from the Musée des impressionnismes gets you in free.
La Roche-Guyon is a château built into a chalk cliff above the Seine, between Vétheuil and Giverny. It runs from a medieval keep to eighteenth-century stables, with rooms cut into the rock, a kitchen garden and casemates built by Rommel.
It opens every day from 1 April to 1 November, 10 am to 6 pm, with the last ticket an hour before closing. An adult pays €9.50 and a child of 6 to 12 pays €6. Pushchairs and dogs are not allowed inside.
One private day from Paris stops in the village of La Roche-Guyon on the way home. Otherwise you need your own car.
Two longer days pair Giverny with a second place. Auvers-sur-Oise is where Van Gogh spent his last weeks. Versailles is the royal palace west of Paris, closed on Mondays.
Both are too far to add on your own by train in one day. The full-day tours drive you between them. Compare the Giverny and Versailles tours for the palace pairing.
Compare the Giverny days that add Versailles or Van Gogh's Auvers-sur-Oise.
Every price and opening time above is the place’s own, or the tourist office’s, checked 28 September 2026. The American painters’ story comes from Wikipedia. What each tour visits comes from its own listing.
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