Musée d'Orsay

I've been living near Paris for about 10 months and each time I go into the city I try to visit a museum. The Musée D'Orsay is most definitely a favourite of mine and one I would recommend tourists in Paris to visit. Originally it was a palace, then a hotel and train station before being opened as a museum in 1986. It is a very beautiful building and very open planned creating a relaxed atmosphere. It's situated in the centre of Paris on the banks of the Seine and is very easy to find. It can be reached on RER line C(yellow) and the nearest metro stop is just around the corner at Solférino (line 12.) The museum contains all forms of art ...  Read the complete review

When we were in Paris with our children (aged 8 and 5) I must admit we decided that the Louvre would be too much, but the Musee d'Orsay was ideal. It's a fabulous, light building, airy and spacious. We bought a children's book about the museum (from the shop under the Louvre - the closest we got) in advance so that the children could take a look at what sort of things would be there and we each got to choose two things that we wanted us all to look at, with an agreement that we could also each nominate up to two amazing things to stop and look at as we were going round. I know this sounds very prescriptive, but the worst thing in a place like this is ...  Read the complete review

If you enjoy visiting art museums, Paris really is the place to go to. In the last 20 years or so, Paris museums re-organised their collections and the musée d'Orsay became the receptacle for art dated between 1848 and 1914. ~The Gare d'Orsay~ ****************** The building that houses the collection used to be a train station and hotel, which due to its proximity to the Louvre needed to be built sympathetically. Its inauguration in 1900 revealed a very fine building where the stone façade hid the metal structure inside. At the time, the painter Edouard Detaille wrote ""The station is superb and looks like a Palais des ...  Read the complete review

The Musee d'Orsay used to be the Gare d'Orsay, it has been converted from an old railway station into an art gallery. The building itself is on Rue Bellechasse and from the outside looks like an old railway station, of course many of the windows are now covered and the entrances closed. Inside is a different story as a mix of ideas and designs have transformed the interior into an interesting place to display art. You can expect to queue for a good half hour to get in but it is well worth it. If you are aged 18-25 it costs 33 francs and otherwise it will cost you 45 francs, £4.50, which makes it one of the more expensive attractions on offer. What do you ...  Read the complete review

Everybody knows about the Louvre and the Pompidou centre, but there is another major art gallery in Paris that just doen't seem to get the attention it deserves - the Musee d'Orsay. This museum was built at the end of the 19th century (by Victor Laloux), as a very high-class train station, its services fell into decline in the mid 20th century as the services at Gare du Nord and Austerlitz improved. In 1973 Georges Pompidou decided that the Gare d'Orsay should have a rather major face lift - and so it became an art gallery. I know the Louvre has the Mona Lisa, but you can't even get close to it because of the crowds of tourists. This ...  Read the complete review