Paris, France

Musee d'Orsay

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Musee d'Orsay gathers nineteenth-century French art in a converted railway station, with a world-leading Impressionist collection.

Why visit

It is the best single museum for the shift from academic painting to modern life, Impressionism, symbolism, and early modern sculpture.

Highlights

  • Manet and Degas
  • Monet and Renoir
  • The station clock

Themes

  • Impressionism
  • Post-Impressionism
  • Former railway station

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