Today we went to the Musée d’Orsay.
The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in a grand old railway station built in 1900 for the Paris World Exposition. The train station had been completely abandoned since 1961 when it was saved from demolition by the French president Pompidou. In 1978 his successor, president Giscard d'Estaing, decided to use the Gare d'Orsay as a museum for 19th and 20th century art. It not only contains paintings, but it also has sculptures, engravings, photos, film, architecture and urbanism. It contains works from Degas, Rodin, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Cezanne, van Gogh and others.
It is so spectacular. I think it is one of the best organized of any museum we have visited. The progression to each area was easy and smooth.
They would not allow any pictures in the museum even without a flash.
We took a break and had a glass of wine in the restaurant and I was able to take pictures there.
Outside the museum – signs of the d’Orsay and the Museum de l’Orangerie we toured earlier in the month.
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