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People with only a passing acquaintance with the history of art, or of painting, will recognize many of the works in the Musèe d'Orsay. The 19th century building that houses its collection is itself worth admiring. What's inside is surely one of the great treasures of modern art.
For this page I've selected three portraits and one work each by Cezanne and Manet -- none of them the most famous pieces by any of their painters, but illustrative all the same of the glories in this museum. Leave a Comment
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Right across the Seine river from the Louvre is the Musee d'Orsay.
The Museum, as is self evident as you enter into the main hall, is a former railway station that was built for the World Fair on July 14th, 1900.
Threatened with destruction and the building of a modern hotel on the site, the Orsay site was put on the register of Historical Monuments in 1973 and was put on the perminant Historical Monument list in 1978, with plans to turn the railway station and adjacent hotel into a museum showcasing the art of the latter 19th Century.
The new Musee d'Orsay opened to the public on December 9, 1986.
The museum is very impressive and can take a couple days to see in detail. But if you have only a few hours, be sure to hit some of the highlights.
Tolouse Lautrec's pastels, Manet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Degas, Rodin, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, etc....
The main hall is most impressive to see. It measures 138 metres (452'9") long, 40 metres (131') wide, and 32 metres (104'11") tall, along with the original railway clock on the glass wall which you can walk behind to get to the different galleries.
The museum is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 9.30am to 6pm and on Thursdays from 9.30am to 9.45pm
Galleries start closing at 5.30pm, 9.15pm on Thursdays
The museum is shut on Mondays.
Full price : 7.5 Euros
Reduced rate : 5.5 Euros
On Sundays and from 4.15 pm (8 pm on Thursdays): 5.5 Euros
Free admission 1st Sunday of Month Leave a Comment Address: 62, rue de LillePhone: +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14Directions: Métro: line 12, Solférino station; RER: line C, Musée d'Orsay stationWebsite: http://www.musee-orsay.fr/
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There are somany great artist here, Monet, Manet, Latrec, Van Gogh, Pissaro etc. It really is an eye opener. There are also lots of Statues here also. Best Museum in paris. Leave a Comment
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There are somany great artist here, Monet, Manet, Latrec, Van Gogh, Pissaro etc. It really is an eye opener. There are also lots of Statues here also. Best Museum in paris. Leave a Comment
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There are two places in which to eat at the Musee (not counting the vending machines). One is a cafe on the 5th floor under the roof (Cafe des Hauteurs) which is overcrowded except at closing time (open 10:30-5PM, and to 9 PM on Thursday) and serves salades and quiches. In the other you eat in Post-Impressionist style (beginning of the 20C) in a dining room with chandeliers and frescoed ceiling. The lunch is either a buffet or a main course meal (price 20 euro). In order to eat here you must make a reservation by phone or go immediately to the restaurant on the mezzanine at the front of the museum and request your table. Then go look at the Art and return (hours 11:45-2:45). If you plan an evening visit on Thursday, the Restaurant de la Musee d'Orsay is open that evening from 7-9:30 PM. It aso serves tea if that is your way , from 3:30-5 PM , except Thursday.
Most people forget that in the early 20C the Orsay was a railroad station with a fine hotel as part of it and this dining room area was preserved as were some ballrooms and meeting places nearby (described as a separate Tip) Leave a Comment
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This museum has a lot of famous paintings and sculptures inside a lovely building that is very easy to navigate and wont take you more than 2-4 hours to see everything. Remember when taking Photo's no flash. Leave a Comment
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This, in my opinion, is a better museum than the Louvre. It has more art that is important, or at least more well-known to the general public. There are multiple works by artists such as Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Lautrec, Gaugin, and others. The museum used to be a train station. There is a restaurant inside that is good for a small meal as big meals there are expensive.
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Traffic in Paris always seems to be in a big mess. Parking was also seen as a creative challenge for the locals, for we never had a rental car in the city. If we needed one, we got it on the last day and picked it up on the way out of town. This was the way we did it in most other large cities we visited.
Once we were walking by the National Assembly (in session), there was massive grid lock with not a car able to move, and here comes a fleet of sirens and military vehicles trying to get through and around this mess. Somehow they did and it all works. Not a place for having a rental car by any means. Walking across a bridge one evening, we come upon an area where the gendarmes are stationed on every corner, in groups of three with heavy vest, riot helmets, and carrying armed rifles. The guys are standing about laughing and joking. We are told that there might some kind of routine social disruption (protest) happening later and these guys always appear. For a while, I thought we were getting ready to go to war.
While the main crowds jam the Louvre museum, across the Seine about two blocks away is the wonderful Musee d’Orsay. We found it to be a great place to wander about for a few hours that has sometime of interest for everyone. Even if visiting museums is not your thing normally, somehow we always ended visiting a museum or two on most of our trips, and really enjoyed them. This museum started out as the Orsay train station and was later converted into the museum with one of the leading collections of Impressionist art in the world. It has also been used as a setting in several films. The d’Orsay is nice for you can stand inside the big clock window that everyone sees from across the Seine River, and you are right inside the glass area where the clock hands mechanically move. It felt like a Alfred Hitchcock movie. We went up on the roof top of the d’Orsay, we are not sure we were allowed to, but had a nice view overlooking the Louvre complex on the other side of the river.
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We first visited the Grand Ballroom under the best of conditions 20 years ago. The auditorium had not yet been finished and we heard a recital of French Art-Songs (piano and soprano) in the Ballroom. Imagine being surrounded by all that gilt and cherubs (fin de siecle Neo-Roccoco) and nude statues, while being stared at by a painting by Fantin-Latour and his musician friends (includ ing Chabrier and d'Indy whose songs were on the program). In more sonorous and sterile surroundings contemporaneous chamber music is an integral part of the museum in comfort at a lower level in the auditorium. The fees are around 20 euro but I think that is above museum access depending upon the time. Information is kept current on the internet site. Leave a Comment
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Whistler's mother painting, Manet, Monet and many more Musée d'Orsay has to offer to art lovers. Leave a Comment
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