Musée d’Orsay

A national museum on the Left Bank of the Seine in Paris, housed in the former Gare d’Orsay railway station. Opened in 1986, it holds the world’s largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.

The Musée d’Orsay stands on the Left Bank of the Seine in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It occupies the former Gare d’Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built by Victor Laloux from 1898 to 1900, which was converted into a museum and opened in 1986.

Its collections cover Western art from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculpture, decorative arts and photography, and its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist holdings are the largest in the world, with works by Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin and van Gogh. In 2022 it welcomed 3.2 million visitors, second only to the Louvre among French art museums.