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Must See

GREAT VIEW
City Panorama
Make your way to the
building’s rear escalator,
ride it all the way up,
and then head to the
small rooftop terrace
for a great bird’s-eye
view of the city.

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1 The clock face on the fifth floor provides views
over the Seine to the Jardin des Tuileries.
2 The nudity in Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe
(1863) caused a scandal when first exhibited.
3 Monet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1865–6) was a
2 tribute to the work of the same name by Manet.

GALLERY GUIDE
The collection occupies
three levels. On the
ground floor, there are
works from the mid-
to late 19th century.
The middle level fea-
tures Art Nouveau,
decora tive art, and
a range of paintings
and sculp tures dating
from the second half
of the 19th century
to the early 20th
century, as well as
Neo-Impressionist
art. The upper level
has a great collection
of Impressionist art.

The former railway
station, designed by Victor
Laloux for the Universal
Exhibition in 1900
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