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The Orsay station and its hotel, built in two years, were inaugurated for the World Fair in Paris, on July 14th, 1900. Until 1939 the Orsay station played the role of head of the line for southwest of France. From 1939, the elongation of trains and the progressive electrification do not allow it more than to harm the suburb.
The station was used then successively as center of expedition of parcel to prisoners during the war, then as reception center of prisoners at the Liberation. It was used as set to several films.
In 1973, the Direction of the museums of France already envisaged the establishment in the Orsay’s station of a museum where all the arts of the second half of the XIXth century would be represented.
In 1978, the building was classified ancient memorial and the public establishment of the museum of Orsay was created to steer the construction and the implementation of the museum. December 1st, 1986, the President of the Republic, François Mitterrand, inaugurated the new museum which opened its doors to the public on the next December 9th.
The Museum of Orsay presents you national collections resulting essentially from three establishments: the Louvre for artists' works been born from 1820 or appearing in the world of the art with the Second Republic. The Jeu de Paume dedicated since 1947 to the impressionism; the national museum of modern Art which, when it settled down in 1976 in the Center Georges Pompidou, kept only artists' works been born after 1870.
The museum proposes any sorts of visits, for individual or groups, for the adults, the children or families, with or without speaker and also courses with a speaker in language of the signs. Among the organized visits, you can find the following subjects: the masterpieces of the museum of Orsay, the art in the XIXth century, the artistic currents, the city of Paris, courses and spectacles in family.
You will find all those information and their calendar on the website www.musee-orsay.fr
Musée d’Orsay
1, rue de Bellechasse
75007 Paris
Phone: +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14
Station : Solferino
Hours:
On Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10 am till 6 pm
Thursday from 10 am till 9:45 pm
Sunday from 9 am till 6 pm
opening at 9 am from June 21st till September 18th
evacuation from 5:30 pm, 9:15 pm on Thursdays
Closed on Monday
Entrance fee
Museum and exposures ticket except L'Art russe dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle : en quête d'identité and Cézanne et Pissarro, 1865-1885
Full rate : 7,5 euros
Reduced rate : 5,5 euros
On Sunday : 5,5 euros
Museum and exposures ticket with L'Art russe dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle : en quête d'identité ou Cézanne et Pissarro, 1865-1885
Full rate : 9 euros
Reduced rate : 7 euros
For more information, please consult the website
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