Orsay Museum
The Orsay Museum was founded three decades ago in an old rail station. The Orsay Museum has a prestigious collection of impressionist paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, photographs, graphic arts and architecture. Academism, Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Pointillism, Fauvism and Divisionism are the artistic currents covered by Orsay museum.
1848 to 1914 are the years covered by the Orsay Museum collections, saw the birth of more artistic movements that any other period in the history of art. All major artist of the time are presented here: Ingres, Delacroix, Millet, Courbet, Moreau, Redon, Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Degas, Seurat, Signac, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Bonnard, Denis, Sisley, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin, Galle and many others.
Getting there:
-bus: line 24, 68 and 69
-RER: line C -Musee d’ Orsay
Timetable:
- 9:30 to 18 hours
- Thursdays late night until 21: 45.
The Orsay Museum is closed on Monday’s.
Tickets:
- 9.5 euros
- 7 euros for 18 to 30 years old, and everyone after 16:15 (except Thursdays)
- free for under 18 years