Musée d’Orsay
The Orsay Museum is a museum on the Left Bank of the Seine in Paris, France. It is situated in the old Gare d'Orsay, an 1898–1900 Beaux-Arts train station. The museum's collection consists mostly of French art from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It holds the world's biggest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces by artists like as Berthe Morisot, Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, and van Gogh. Prior to the museum's establishment in 1986, several of these works were on display at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume. It is one of Europe's largest art museums.
The museum received 3.2 million visitors in 2022, up from 1.4 million in 2021 but still below the 3.6 million attendances in 2019 owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, it was rated fifteenth on the list of most-visited art museums. The Gare d'Orsay was a train station for just over 50 years until it was transformed into a museum. The Musée d'Orsay is one of the most popular tourist locations in Paris today, and with good reason. Because of its world-renowned art collection, the Musée d'Orsay is a must-see for any tourist to France. With the exception of Monday, the museum is open every day. From April to September, it shuts at 9:45 p.m., and the rest of the year at 6:45 p.m. Admission is €12 for adults, €6 for students and seniors, and free for children under the age of 18.
Location: 1 Rue de la Légion d’Honneur, 75007 Paris, France
Website: https://www.musee-orsay.fr
