The history of the museum, of its building is quite unusual. In the centre of Paris on the banks of the Seine, opposite the Tuileries Gardens, the museum was installed in the former Orsay railway station, built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. So the building itself could be seen as the first "work of art" in the Musee d'Orsay, which displays collections of art from the period 1848 to 1914.
The Musée d'Orsay collections are rich and multi-disciplinary: painting, sculpture, decorative arts, architecture and photography. Its masterpieces by Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, or Courbet, Rodin and Carpeaux, have brought it an international reputation, as well as recognition for its expertise in the history of art in the second half of the 19th century.
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