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Musée d'Orsay

Musée d'Orsay
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Main Hall of the Musée d'Orsay
Musée d'Orsay is located in Paris
Musée d'Orsay
Location of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris
Established 1986
Location Rue de Lille 75343 Paris, France
Coordinates 48°51′36″N 2°19′37″E / 48.860°N 2.327°E / 48.860; 2.327
Type Art museum, Design/Textile Museum, Historic site
Visitors

3.0 million (2009)

Director Serge Lemoine
Public transit access Solférino Metro-M.svgParis m 12 jms.svg
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Website www.musee-orsay.fr

3.0 million (2009)

The Musée d'Orsay (French pronunciation: ​[myze dɔʁsɛ]) is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, and Van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986. It is one of the largest art museums in Europe.

The museum building was originally a railway station, Gare d'Orsay, constructed for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans and finished in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle to the design of three architects: Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux. It was the terminus for the railways of southwestern France until 1939.


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