One visits this museum to see Monet in depth.  The more than 130 Monet paintings on exhibit were a gift from the artist’s son.  The museum contains an outstanding collection of his waterlily paintings, as well as his more abstract repesentations of the Japanese Bridge at Giverny. There are also paintings of his Impressionist Friends collected personally by Monet.  In recent years, several of the paintings were stolen, including “Impression, Sunrise”, the painting that gave the Impressionism Art Movement its’ painting style and subsequent artistic movement.  It has now been returned.