Musée d'Orsay

 

Musée d'Orsay is located in Paris on the left bank of the Seine, at the former Gare d'Orsay, built between 1898 and 1900. The museum houses mostly French art dating from 1848-1914, including painting, sculpture, furniture, and photography.

It houses the world's largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works, including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Many of these works were exhibited at the National Gallery Jaet de Pom before the museum opened in 1986. This is one of the largest art museums in Europe. In 2019, the Musée d'Orsay was visited by over 3.6 million people.

 

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Musee d'Orsay

 

The museum building was originally a railway station, Gare d'Orsay, built for the railway from Paris to Orleans and completed in time for the 1900 World's Fair, designed by three architects: Lucien Magne, Emile Benard and Victor Laloux. Until 1939, it was the terminal station of the railways of southwestern France.   

By 1939, the station's short platforms became unusable for longer trains, which were used to service the main lines. After 1939, it was used for commuter transport, and part of it became a postal center during World War II, then it was used as a backdrop for several films, such as Kafka's "test", adapted by Orson Welles.

In 1970, permission was obtained to demolish the station, but culture minister Jacques Duhamel abandoned plans to build a new hotel in its place. The station was added to the Additional List of Historic Monuments and finally approved in 1978. The proposal to turn the station into a museum came from the directorate of the Museum of France. The idea was to build a museum that would bridge the gap between the Louvre and the National Museum of Modern Art at the Georges Pompidou Center. The plan was adopted by Georges Pompidou.

 

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Musee d'Orsay

 

In 1978, a competition was organized to design a new museum. It took 6 months to install 2,000 or so paintings, 600 sculptures and other works. The museum was officially opened in December 1986 by then President François Mitterrand.

From 2020, the Orsay Museum is set to undergo a radical transformation over the next decade, funded in part by an anonymous American philanthropist who donated € 20 million to a construction project known as the Orsay Grand Ouvert (Orsay Wide Open). The gift was made through American friends of the Orsay Museum and Orangerie.

External examination of the Orsay Museum is provided during a sightseeing tour of Paris.

More information You can find at the Official website of Musée d'Orsay or at Wikipedia.

 

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