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Musée D'Orsay
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Musée D'Orsay

Museum of 19th- and early 20th-century painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and photography, opened at the former Gare du Quai d'Orsay (Orsay quayside railway station), Paris, France, in 1986. The museum includes collections from leading artists, mostly French, from the Romantic, neoclassical, realist, Impressionist, post-Impressionist, and pointillist schools.

The building, completed in 1900, is located on the Left Bank of the River Seine across from the Tuileries gardens and is renowned for its grand Beaux Arts structure. Due to decreased railway travel, it had fallen into disuse by the 1970s and was restored and remodeled in the early 1980s.



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Right across the Seine River at a walking distance you will find the Orsay museum as well as Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral.
The Orsay museum in Paris this week takes a fresh look at the morphing of modern sculpture -- a decade from 1905 to the outbreak of World War I when a wave of sculptors challenged celebrity artist Auguste Rodin.
Le Pont d'Argenteuil was damaged last Sunday when intruders, apparently drunk, broke into the Orsay Museum in the French capital and punched a 10cmtear into the canvas.
 
 
 
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