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Orsay Museum History

On the eve of the 1900 World Fair, the French government ceded the land to the Orleans railroad company, who wanted to build a central Paris terminus train station on the site of the ruined Palais d'Orsay. The project was a challenging one due to the vicinity of the Louvre Museum and the Palais de la Légion d'honneur: the new station needed to be perfectly integrated into its surroundings. From 1900 to 1939, the Gare d'Orsay was the head of the southwestern French railroad network. However, after 1939, the station had become too short for the modern, longer trains that appeared with the progressive electrification of the railroads. In 1975, the Direction des Musées de France already considered installing a new museum in the train station, in which all of the arts from the second half of the 19th century would be represented. The building was classified Historical Monument in 1978 and a civil commission was created to oversee the construction and organisation of the museum. Orsay Museum opened its doors Dec 9th 1986.

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Orsay Museum masterpieces : Impressionists & sculptures

Original haut-relief in plaster of "La Porte d'Enfer" by Rodin and bronzes from Degas, sculptures of Bourdelle and Maillol. See also the rooms dedicated to Ingres, Delacroix...
Paintings: Millet (l’Angelus, les Glaneuses, Le Printemps), Rousseau (Une avenue, Foret de l’Isle Adam), Corot (danse des Nymphes, In the rotunda room, the main masterworks of Courbet, "L’enterrement a Ornans", "l'Atelier d", "les Falaises d'Etretat "," la Source", "la Creation du Monde".
See the galleries dedicated to the impressionists before 1870. Monet (Femmes au jardin, Dejeuner sur l’Herbe, imitated from fragments of "Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe" by Manet), Pissarro (Geleé Blanche) and Sisley (Passerelle d’Argenteuil), Boudin ( Plage a Trouville), Jongkind (La Seine et Notre-Dame à Paris).
Salle Manet with “Emile Zola”, “Olympia”, “Le Balcon” and “Le Fifre”.

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Location : Musee d'Orsay : 1 rue de la Legion d'Honneur, 75007  Metro: Solférino  Entrance price : 7,5 Euros Opening Hours : 9.30am to 6pm All days 9.30am to 9.45pm on Thursdays - Closed on Mondays

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Orsay Museum history : Visit Orsay Museum with shuttle-paris.com - Orsay is considered as one of the most beautiful museum in Paris and hosts a unique collection of sculptures by Rodin, Bourdelle, Claudel and also a great gallery of impressionists paintings : Manet, Monet, Cezanne.