Musée d’Orsay

Today I would like to recommend for those of you who are interested in art a really worth-seeing place in Paris – Musée d’Orsay.

This museum is located in the centre of Paris, by the Seine, nearby Louvre, in the beautiful building which used to be a railway station built between 1898 and 1900 (the museum was established in 1986).

The museum presents mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography.

What I like the most about this museum is that it owns the largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces in the world, including the works of art painted by such eminent artists as Monet, Manet, Renoir, Cézanne, Sisley, Gauguin or Van Gogh.

A lot of the paintings which you can see in Musée d’Orsay are considered to be leading in their epoch. It’s really nice to have an opportunity to look at them in reality, not only on the pages of student’s books :)


For more information you can visit the website: http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en

(source: best-museums.com)