Musée d'Orsay

The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. One of the largest art museums in Europe, it is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. The museum holds mainly French artworks dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters such as Monet, Manet, Renoir, Morisot, Degas, Sisley, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986.