The Musee d'Orsay is a relatively new museum created in the shell of the defunct railway station, Gare d'Orsay. The museum was opened in 1986 by the then president, François Mitterrand.
The museum exhibits French paintings, sculpture, furniture and photography produced mainly in the period between 1848 and 1914. It houses the largest collection of Impressionist and Post Impressionist paintings in the world with works on display by Monet, Renoir, Gaugin, Van Gogh and many others.
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