Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay as seen from the Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor | |
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| Established | 1986 |
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| Location | Rue de Lille 75343 Paris, France |
| Coordinates | 48°51′36″N 2°19′35″E / 48.86000°N 2.32639°E |
| Type | Art museum, Design/Textile Museum, Historic site |
| Visitors | 3.9 million (2023) |
| Director | Serge Lemoine |
| Public transit access | Solférino Musée d'Orsay |
| Website | musee-orsay.fr |
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The Musée d'Orsay (UK: /ˌmjuːzeɪ dɔːrˈseɪ/ MEW-zay dor-SAY, US: /mjuːˈzeɪ -/ mew-ZAY -, French: [myze dɔʁsɛ]) (English: Orsay Museum) 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 from 1898 to 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.