Musee d'Orsay

The Museum benefited from the merging of the Louvre Museum's post-1848 collections and those of the National Museum of Modern Art, pre-1918 collections, to which were added the significant number of paintings acquired by the State during this period and held in provincial museums. The Museum is housed in the former Orsay railway station. The station's conversion, built in 1900 by Victor Laloux, took place between 1978 and 1986 under the direction of architects Colboc, Bardon, and Philippon for the exterior restoration and Gae Aulenti for the interior renovation. The large nave of the station has been reused as the main axis of the Museum's route. Bonnard, Carpeaux, Daumier, Guimard, Lalique, Manet, Millet, Monet, Renoir, Rodin, Sisley, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Vuillard, Rodin, Maillol, Carpeaux, Guimard, Lalique.