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Musée d'Orsay

The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station, the Gare d'Orsay. It holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography, and is probably best known for its extensive collection of impressionist masterpieces by such painters such as Monet, Degas, Renoir, and Cezanne. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986.


History
The museum building was originally a railway station, Gare d'Orsay, constructed for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans and finished in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle to the design of three architects: Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux. It was the terminus for the railways of southwestern France until 1939.

By 1939 the station's short platforms had become unsuitable for the longer trains that had come to be used for mainline services. After 1939 it was used for suburban services and part of it became a mailing center during World War II. It was then used as a set for several films, such as Kafka's The Trial adapted by Orson Welles, and as a haven for the Renaud-Barrault Theatre Company and for auctioneers, while the Hôtel Drouot was being rebuilt. The station's hotel closed on 1 January 1973.


Hours
  • Open from 9.30am to 6pm daily, except Mondays
  • Thursdays until 9.45pm
  • Museum cleared at 5.30pm (9.15pm Thursdays)
  • Group visits, pre-booked only, Tuesday to Saturday, 9.30am to 4pm (Thursdays until 8pm)
  • Closed on Mondays, on 1 January, 1 May and 25 December
  • Last tickets sold at 5pm (9pm Thursdays)

Admission
  • € 9.50 for admission to the permanent collections and exhibitions
  • € 7 for 18 to 30 year-olds, for everyone from 4.15pm (except Thursdays), for everyone on Thursday evenings, from 6pm
  • Free for Under 18s, Carte blanche and MuséO cardholders, members of the Société des Amis du Musée d'Orsay and disabled visitors with one extra person, for everyone on first Sunday of the month
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