Musee d’Orsay
The Musee d’Orsay is a museum in Paris, on the Left Bank of the Seine. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. The museum building was originally a railway station, *Gare d’Orsay.
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It houses the largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Berthe Morisot, Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, and Van Gogh. It is one of the largest art museums in Europe.
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Curators at the Orsay move and swap out some of the art daily, and even large displays such as Impressionist paintings can shift to different floors. Take one of the free museum brochures as you enter if you want to know current locations of collections, and ask at the Reception Desk if you need more specific information.
Since 2011, the museum has had its own Lady Liberty – look for her soon after you pass through the entrance.
This one, like the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor given to the United States by the people of France in 1886, was created by Frédéric Bartholdi – but unlike the 151 foot (46 m) tall original, this one measures not quite 10 feet tall (slightly under 3 m) and was created more than a decade after the original.
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