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The reopening of Paris' Orangerie Museum, which holds eight of Claude Monet's famed water lilies paintings, has been delayed until May 17 instead of this Friday, May 5, as originally scheduled.
French Culture Ministry officials postponed the opening "for security reasons and to optimize the welcome of the public," Anne Samson, head of the public relations firm handling the reopening, said Wednesday.
The Orangerie, which houses eight mammoth murals of water lilies by impressionist master Monet, will open following a six-year renovation. Workers tore up the low, drab ceiling that had sliced the museum horizontally and installed a vast skylight above Monet's color-drenched canvases.
