Musée d'Orsay
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The '''Musée d'Orsay''' ( , , ) () is a
museum in
Paris,
France, on the
Left Bank of the
Seine. It is housed in the former
Gare d'Orsay, a
Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly
French art 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 including
Berthe Morisot,
Claude Monet,
Édouard Manet,
Degas,
Renoir,
Cézanne,
Seurat,
Sisley,
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. It is one of the
largest art museums in Europe.
In 2022 the museum had 3.2 million visitors, up from 1.4 million in 2021. It was the sixth-most-visited art museum in the world in 2022, and second-most-visited art museum in France, after the
Louvre.
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