Since it has been beautifully restored in November 2015, this museum is even more than before a must-see.

You could very well go there on your own: the beauty and sensuality of his works (and those of Camille Claudel, who now has a proper room devoted to her works) speak for themselves. But if you want your experience

to reach a much higher level, if you want to understand the whole process of the creation of his Gates of Hell (on which he worked for nearly 40 years until he died) and how it became a source for many stand-alone sculptures (including the Thinker and the Kiss) variations of which we'll see inside the museum,

if you want to understand how the man became a myth in his own lifetime and know all about his work methods and intriguing love affairs, if you want to understand the gardens and the story of the extraordinary

18th-century building which houses Rodin's masterpieces, this tour is made for you!

This intense and thorough visit takes a good couple hours to get the full "Laurent experience";

but it can be less if you don't have the will/time. You always call the shots!

And I highly recommend that we go visit Napoleon's tomb next door for one hour

(or more if you ask a lot of questions 😇 ).

Oh, and this museum is only 0.6 miles = 15 mn walk away from Orsay museum. So it's a good idea

to go to Orsay in the morning, have lunch (several options) and go to the Rodin museum afterwards.

And at Orsay we'll see the plaster version of the Gates of hell from which the bronze cast was made!

It's so interesting to see the positive (white) version and the negative (black bronze) version!

Good to know: there's no guiding at Orsay on Sundays and on Mondays both museums are closed.