Musee d’Orsay

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The center of the Museum which had five floors of beautiful art.  The building was originally a railway station built for the World Fair of 1900 and housed a luxurious hotel and a grand reception room, but with the modernization of travel the station was gradually abandoned.  In 1977 the French Government transformed it into the Musee d’Orsay

 

 

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This is a huge clock work that had a glass front so that you could see through the clock onto the city of Paris.

One of my favorite finds in the very top floor of the musuem.

 

 

 

Paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, photography, drawings….

So many pieces of art that I was so excited to see.  No way could you see everything in one day.  I took the map and literally ran from exhibit to exhibit trying to see all of my favorites.  I think I failed! – no way to get them all.

Van Gogh – Monet – Degas – Gauguin – Signac – Cezanne -Renoir just to name a few!

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The Musee d’Orsay presents art in all its diversity covering the evolution of the western world art from 1848-1914