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MUSÉE D’ORSAY

 E4 ⌂ 1 Rue de la Légion d’Honneur q Solférino @ 24, 68, 69, 84 to Quai A
France; 73 to Rue Solférino; 63, 83, 84, 94 to Bd St-Germain W Musée d’Orsay
# 9:30am–6pm Tue–Sun (to 9:45pm Thu) ¢ 1 Jan, 1 May, 25 Dec ∑ musee-orsay.fr
EXPERIENCE Paris: The Left Bank Impressionist art, which includes famous works by Monet, Renoir, Manet
The Musée d’Orsay picks up where the Louvre ends, showing a variety of
art forms from 1848 to 1914. Its star attraction is a superb collection of
and Degas, as well as pieces by Georges Seurat, Gaugin and Van Gogh.

In 1986, 47 years after it had closed as a mainline
railroad station, Victor Laloux’s truly superb
late-19th-century building was reopened as
the Musée d’Orsay. Originally commissioned
by the Orléans railway company to be its Paris
terminus, the structure avoided demolition in
the 1970s after being classified as a historical
monument. During the conversion into a
museum, much of the original architecture
was retained. The collection was set up to
present each of the arts of the period from
1848 to 1914 in the context of contemporary
society and other forms of creative activity
happening at the time. In 2009–2011 the top-
level galleries were renovated, improving The light and spacious entrance
the display of Impressionist works. hall, with its curved glass ceiling

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