The Musée d’Orsay is a national museum inaugurated in 1986, located in the 7th arrondissement of Paris along the left bank of the Seine in the former Orsay train station built by Victor Laloux between 1898 and 1900 and turned into a museum upon President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing’s decision. Its collections present Western art from 1848 to 1914, in all its diversity: painting, sculpture, decorative arts, graphic art, photography, architecture, etc. It is one of the largest museums in Europe.
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