Renew Membership

By renewing your membership, you are supporting cultural enrichment for the museums’ more than three million annual visitors from around the world.

Your Patronage at work:

Since 2011, your patronage provided major support for:

Exhibitions:

Manet, Inventor of Modernity“, 2011
Degas and the Nude“, 2012
The Water Lilies. American Abstract Painting and the Last Monet“, 2018
Pastels. Fom Millet to Redon“, 2023

Contemporary Art Program at the Orsay and Orangerie museums, 2019-2023 

Education:

Over 100 private Patron’s Pass tours of exhibitions

Catalogs:

The exhibition catalog A Passion for France – The Marlene and Spencer Hays Collection, 2013

The exhibition catalog Archives of the Dream, Drawings from the Musee d’Orsay – Carte Blanche for Werner Spies, 2014

The exhibition catalog Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870). The Youth of Impressionism, 2016

The exhibition catalog Bonnard / Vuillard. La donation Zeïneb et Jean-Pierre Marcie -Rivière, 2016

The exhibition catalog An American in Paris. Architectures Drawings from the Neil Levine’s Donation, 2016

The exhibition album Pastels. From Millet to Redon, 2023

Capital Improvement:

The new Graphic Arts Gallery in the Nouvel Orsay

The refurbishment of the lighting in the Orangerie’s legendary oval galleries that hold Claude Monet’s world-renowned Water Lilies

The refurbishment of two spaces on the upper and lower levels of the Orsay’s nave, as part of the action plan to improve the public’s reception

Conservation:

The restoration of Liberty Enlightening the World (1889)

The restoration of Gustave Courbet’s masterpiece The Painter’s Studio

The restoration and box framing of 47 works from the Zeïneb and Jean-Pierre Marcie-Rivière’s donation

The restoration and cleaning of marbles from the Musée d’Orsay’s sculpture collection

GRANTS:

Herter Brothers American Chairs,  Herter Brothers Chaise Longue

Les Fables de La Fontaine, illustrated by Gustave Doré, Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1868

Set of 128 photographs (cyanotypes, platinum prints, silver prints) by Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), the majority of which comes from her Studio Collection