Museum of Orsay
The Gare d’Orsay was built as a Beaux-Arts railway station, constructed from 1898 to 1900 for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans, and finished in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle. Its design—credited to Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard, and Victor Laloux—was widely noted as an “anachronism”, a grand, 19th-century-looking structure for a modern transport world. After the station’s role ended, the site became the Musée d’Orsay, which opened in 1986 and concentrated French art from 1848 to 1914, including painting, sculpture, furniture, and photography. The museum became especially known for holding one of the world’s largest collections of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces, with key artists such as Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, and van Gogh. In 2022, the museum recorded 3.2 million visitors, rising from 1.4 million in 2021. …
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