Paris, young Claire Bernardi is the new director of the Musée de l'Orangerie

The Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, the celebrated museum of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting famous as the home of one of Claude Monet’s best-known Water Lilies, has a new director: she is the young art historian Claire Bernardi, appointed yesterday to lead the Paris museum by the French minister of culture, Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, on the pu proposal of the President of the Public Entity of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie-Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.

A curator on staff at the Musée d’Orsay since 2012, Claire Bernardi, in her early 40s and originally from Marseille, has been in charge of late 19th- and early 20th-century paintings at the Musée d’Orsay, which she joined in 2012. She was previously curator at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, where she began her career in 2009 and where she was in charge of modern collections. Trained in philosophy and art history at the Sorbonne, she then studied at the École du Louvre between 2004 and 2007 and in 2008-2009 was a student at the Institut National du Patrimoine. She has also curated several major international exhibitions, including the recent Soutine - de Kooning right at the Musée de l’Orangerie, as well as Picasso, bleu et rose at the Musée d’Orsay in 2018 and Gauguin l’Alchimiste Grand Palais in 2017.

As director of the Musée de l’Orangerie, Claire Bernardi, she let it be known, will give continuity to the action of previous years and lead a program aimed at proposing contemporary revisitations of the museum’s collections. Among her goals is also to maintain a good level of attendance at the museum, and in particular to further retain the French public by strengthening the cultural mediation policy. At the same time, work will continue on the institution’s international development.

Paris, young Claire Bernardi is the new director of the Musée de l'Orangerie

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