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Musée d'Orsay
Facing the Seine from quai Anatole France, the Musée d'Orsay is housed in a former train
station (1900). It displays France's national collection of paintings, sculptures, objets d'art
and other works produced between the 1840s and 1914, including the fruits of the Impres-
sionist, post-Impressionist and art nouveau movements.
Many visitors to the museum go straight to the upper level (lit by a skylight) to see the
famous Impressionist paintings by Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, Degas and Manet and
the post-Impressionist works by Cézanne, Van Gogh, Seurat and Matisse, but there's also
lots to see on the ground floor, including some early works by such artists as Manet, Mon-
et, Renoir and Pissarro. The middle level has some superb art nouveau rooms.
English-language tours
, lasting 1½ hours, include the 'Masterpieces of the Musée
d'Orsay' tour. Tickets are valid all day, so you can leave and re-enter the museum as you
please. The reduced entrance fee of €5.50 (€7 including temporary exhibition) applies to
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