Musée d'Orsay
Impressionist art destination
The Musée d'Orsay is an art museum in Paris, housed in a former railway station on the Left Bank of the Seine.
Its collection focuses on French art from 1848 to 1914, bridging the classical works at the Louvre and the modern art at the Centre Pompidou.
The museum is particularly known for its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings: We spent the morning at the Musée d'Orsay looking at Monets and Van Goghs.
- water liliesAquatic flowering pond plants
- Edgar DegasFrench ballet artist
- ImpressionismArt movement emphasizing light
- Louvre MuseumFrench national art collection
- clockfaceTime-telling surface
Claude Monet · Paul Cézanne · Starry Night · adaptive reuse · train station · Symbolism · Auguste Rodin · Eiffel Tower · gilded age · Olympia · glass ceilings · Realism · Vincent van Gogh · Beaux-Arts · sunflowers · historical preservation · railway station · ballerinas
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Paris art museum
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