Paris: The Musée d'Orsay

The Musée d'Orsay is a museum with paintings and sculptures of the West, from a period from 1848 to 1914 are also found decorative arts, photographs and architectural projects.

The museum was set up in the Gare d'Orsay. Today, the basement is still operated by the SNCF since the RER C goes. It was opened for the first time in 1986 We just admire permanent exhibitions but also temporary, dedicated to a particular artist or movement, for example.

Many of the paintings you will see there belong to Impressionist and post-Impressionist movement: this is the largest collection in the world. It will include such works of Paul Gauguin and Claude Monet. But the institution also has neoclassical sculptures, realistic or Symbolists.