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MUSÉE D’ORSAY

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1, Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 75007Paris, France
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01.40.49.48.14
2024
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2024

Museum with collections reflecting the diversity of artistic creation in the Western world from 1848 to 1914, to visit in Orsay.

Inaugurated in 1986, this must-see museum is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, the terminus of the Compagnie du Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans, designed at the time to welcome visitors and foreign delegations to the 1900 Universal Exhibition. A work of art in itself, the station replaced the Palais d'Orsay, burnt down in 1871 during the Commune. The Musée d'Orsay collections reflect the full diversity of artistic creation in the Western world from 1848 to 1914. Spread over five levels around a monumental central space, the visit begins on the first floor with the beginnings of Impressionist painting and its main figures: Monet, Renoir, Degas (before 1870), Courbet, Millet and other currents such as Realism and Academism. On the second level, whose interior balconies provide the ideal setting for a magical sculpture terrace, you continue your chronological advance: early 20th-century modern decors, the Marcie-Rivière collection, a selection of paintings dedicated to various currents (Orientalism, Symbolism or Naturalism). Art nouveau from Europe and the United States can be discovered in the Pavillon Amont. Finally, the last level brings your visit to a close with works by Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet and Pissarro, grouped together in a vast space called "From Impressionism to Neo-Impressionism", and a permanent exhibition dedicated to Post-Impressionism. Conferences, workshops and other events are also on offer at this not-to-be-missed museum.


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Tomato41
Visited in july 2023
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Très beau musée
L'intérieur de ce musée est tout simplement splendide. Les peintures proposées sont variées et le musée est gratuit pour les moins de 25 ans.
Visited in june 2023
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Service Médiocre
J'ai acheté 500€ de billets + audioguide, mais nous ne pouvons pas venir en raison d'un cas fortuit.
Le musée ne prend même pas la peine d'effectuer un échange sur une partie des billets ou proposer une solution alternative.
Je ne peux avoir personne au téléphone, et reçoit que des mails génériques.

Très décevant de ce qui devrait être un des "meilleurs musée de France".
juju1908
Visited in november 2021
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Magnifique visite !
Un magnifique musée où on pourrait y passer la journée ! Un incontournable de Paris ! Et un petit faible pour l’étage réservé à l’impressionnisme !
kro25
Visited in august 2021
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2eme musée incontournable de la capitale. Il renferme lui aussi des trésors artistiques de toutes les époques.
Amandynn
Visited in august 2020
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C'est l'un des musées à voir absolument. Beaucoup de chefs-d'oeuvre d'artistes renommés tels que Manet, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh,... Il faut y consacrer au moins une après-midi entière pour apprécier toutes les oeuvres. Cette ancienne gare reconvertie en musée en fait l'endroit idéal pour accueillir ces magnifiques collections.

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