Musée d'Orsay - wikipedia Musée d'Orsay This article is about the museum. For other uses, see D'Orsay ( disambiguation ). Art museum, Design / Textile Museum, Historic site in Rue de Lille Paris, France Musée d'Orsay Main Hall of the Musée d'Orsay Location of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris Established 1986 Location Rue de Lille 75343 Paris, France 48 ° 51 ′ 36 '' N 2 ° 19 ′ 37 '' E ﻿ / ﻿ 48.860 ° N 2.327 ° E ﻿ / 48.860 ; 2.327 Type Art museum, Design / Textile Museum, Historic site Visitors 3.0 million ( 2009 ) Ranked 3rd nationally Ranked 10th globally Director Serge Lemoine Public transit access Solférino Musée d'Orsay Website www.musee-orsay.fr The Musée d'Orsay ( French pronunciation : ​ ( myze dɔʁsɛ ) ) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux - Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin, and Van Gogh. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum 's opening in 1986. It is one of the largest art museums in Europe. Contents 1 History 2 Collection 2.1 Paintings : major painters and works represented 2.2 Sculptures 2.3 Other works 3 Selected collection highlights 4 Management 5 See also 6 References 7 External links History The Musée d'Orsay as seen from the Passerelle Léopold - Sédar - Senghor Musée d'Orsay Clock, Victor Laloux, Main Hall The interior of the museum. The museum building was originally a railway station, Gare d'Orsay, constructed for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans and finished in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle to the design of three architects : Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux. It was the terminus for the railways of southwestern France until 1939. By 1939 the station 's short platforms had become unsuitable for the longer trains that had come to be used for mainline services. After 1939 it was used for suburban services and part of it became a mailing centre during World War II. It was then used as a set for several films, such as Kafka 's The Trial adapted by Orson Welles, and as a haven for the Renaud -- Barrault Theatre Company and for auctioneers, while the Hôtel Drouot was being rebuilt. In 1970, permission was granted to demolish the station but Jacques Duhamel, Minister for Cultural Affairs, ruled against plans to build a new hotel in its stead. The station was put on the supplementary list of Historic Monuments and finally listed in 1978. The suggestion to turn the station into a museum came from the Directorate of the Museums of France. The idea was to build a museum that would bridge the gap between the Louvre and the National Museum of Modern Art at the Georges Pompidou Centre. The plan was accepted by Georges Pompidou and a study was commissioned in 1974. In 1978, a competition was organized to design the new museum. ACT Architecture, a team of three young architects ( Pierre Colboc, Renaud Bardon and Jean - Paul Philippon ), were awarded the contract which involved creating 20,000 square metres ( 220,000 sq ft ) of new floorspace on four floors. The construction work was carried out by Bouygues. In 1981, the Italian architect Gae Aulenti was chosen to design the interior including the internal arrangement, decoration, furniture and fittings of the museum. Finally in July 1986, the museum was ready to receive its exhibits. It took 6 months to install the 2000 or so paintings, 600 sculptures and other works. The museum officially opened in December 1986 by then - president François Mitterrand. Orsay Museum, seen from the right bank of the Seine river The square next to the museum displays six bronze allegorical sculptural groups in a row, originally produced for the Exposition Universelle : South America by Aimé Millet Asia by Alexandre Falguière Oceania by Mathurin Moreau Europe by Alexandre Schoenewerk North America by Ernest - Eugène Hiolle Africa by Eugène Delaplanche Collection Vincent van Gogh : Starry Night Over the Rhone Arles, September 1888 Pierre - Auguste Renoir : Bal du moulin de la Galette, 1876 Édouard Manet The Luncheon on the Grass 1862 - 3 Gustave Courbet : The Artist 's Studio 1855 Paul Cézanne : The Card Players 1894 -- 1895 Paul Cézanne : Apples and Oranges circa 1899 Paintings : major painters and works represented Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres -- 4 paintings ( the main collection of his paintings is in the Louvre ) Eugène Delacroix -- 5 paintings ( the main collection of his paintings is in the Louvre ) Eugène Carrière -- 86 paintings including The painting family, The sick child, Intimacy Théodore Chassériau -- 5 paintings ( the main collection of his paintings is in the Louvre ) Gustave Courbet -- 48 paintings including The Artist 's Studio, A Burial at Ornans, Young Man Sitting, L'Origine du monde Jean - François Millet -- 27 paintings including Spring, The Gleaners Jean - Baptiste - Camille Corot -- 32 paintings ( the main collection of his paintings is in the Louvre ) including A Morning. The Dance of the Nymphs Johan Barthold Jongkind -- 9 paintings Alexandre Cabanel -- The Birth of Venus, The Death of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Jean - Léon Gérôme -- Portrait of the baroness Nathaniel de Rothschild, Reception of Condé in Versailles, La Comtesse de Keller Pierre Puvis de Chavannes -- Young Girls by the Seaside, The Young Mother also known as Charity, View on the Château de Versailles and the Orangerie Gustave Moreau -- 8 paintings Honoré Daumier -- 8 paintings Eugène Boudin -- 33 paintings including Trouville Beach Camille Pissarro -- 46 paintings including White Frost Édouard Manet -- 34 paintings including Olympia, The Balcony, Berthe Morisot With a Bouquet of Violets, The Luncheon on the Grass Berthe Morisot -- 9 paintings Edgar Degas -- 43 paintings including The Parade, also known as Race Horses in front of the Tribunes, The Bellelli Family, The Tub, Portrait of Édouard Manet, Portraits, At the Stock Exchange, L'Absinthe Paul Cézanne -- 56 paintings including Apples and Oranges Claude Monet -- 86 paintings ( another main collection of his paintings is in the Musée Marmottan Monet ) including The Saint - Lazare Station, The Rue Montorgueil in Paris. Celebration of 30 June 1878, Wind Effect, Series of The Poplars, Rouen Cathedral. Harmony in Blue, Blue Water Lilies Alfred Sisley -- 46 paintings including Inondation at Port - Marly Armand Guillaumin -- 44 paintings Frédéric Bazille -- 6 paintings Mary Cassatt -- 1 painting Odilon Redon -- 106 paintings including Caliban Pierre - Auguste Renoir -- 81 paintings including Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre Ferdinand Hodler -- Der Holzfäller ( The Woodcutter ) Gustave Caillebotte -- 7 paintings including The Floor Scrapers Édouard Detaille -- The Dream Vincent van Gogh -- 24 paintings including Self Portrait, portrait of his friend Eugène Boch, The Siesta, The Church at Auvers, View from the Chevet, The Italian Woman, Starry Night Over the Rhone, Portrait of Dr. Gachet, Bedroom in Arles Paul Gauguin -- 24 paintings including Tahitian Women on the Beach Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec -- 18 paintings Eugène Jansson -- Proletarian Lodgings Henri - Edmond Cross -- 10 paintings including The Cypresses in Cagnes Paul Signac -- 16 paintings including Women at the Well Théo van Rysselberghe -- 6 paintings Félix Vallotton -- Misia at Her Dressing Table Georges Seurat -- 19 paintings including The Circus Édouard Vuillard -- 70 paintings Henri Rousseau -- 3 paintings Pierre Bonnard -- 60 paintings including The Chequered Blouse Paul Sérusier -- The Talisman, the Aven River at the Bois d'Amour Maurice Denis -- Portrait of the Artist Aged Eighteen, Princess Maleine 's Minuet or Marthe Playing the Piano, The Green Trees or Beech Trees in Kerduel, October Night ( panel for the decoration of a girl 's room ) André Derain -- Charing Cross Bridge, also known as Westminster Bridge Edvard Munch -- 1 painting Gustav Klimt -- 1 painting Piet Mondrian -- 2 paintings James McNeill Whistler -- 3 paintings including Arrangement in Grey and Black : The Artist 's Mother, also known as Whistler 's Mother William - Adolphe Bouguereau -- 12 paintings including The Birth of Venus Cecilia Beaux -- Sita and Sarita ( Jeune Fille au Chat ) Sculptures Major sculptors represented in the collection include Alfred Barye, François Rude, Jules Cavelier, Jean - Baptiste Carpeaux, Émile - Coriolan Guillemin, Auguste Rodin, Paul Gauguin, Camille Claudel, Sarah Bernhardt, and Honoré Daumier. Other works It also holds collections of : architecture and decorative arts photography Selected collection highlights Eugène Delacroix, The Lion Hunt, c. 1854 Gustave Courbet, The Artist 's Studio ( L'Atelier du peintre ) : A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic and Moral Life, 1855 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, The Source, 1856 Jean - François Millet, The Gleaners, 1857 Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863 Claude Monet, Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, ( right section ), with Gustave Courbet, 1865 - 1866 Paul Cézanne, Portrait of Achille Emperaire, 1868 Eugène Boudin, Bathers on the Beach at Trouville, 1869 James McNeill Whistler, Whistler 's Mother, 1871 Gustave Caillebotte, Les raboteurs de parquet ( The Floor Scrapers ), 1875 Edgar Degas, L'Absinthe, 1876 Pierre - Auguste Renoir, Dance in the Country ( Aline Charigot and Paul Lhote ), 1883 Paul Sérusier, The Talisman / Le Talisman, 1888 Self - portrait ( 1889 ) by Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh, The Church at Auvers, 1890 Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Women on the Beach, 1891 Georges Seurat, The Circus, 1891 Paul Gauguin, Oviri ( Sauvage ), 1894 Georges Lacombe, L'Existence, 1894 - 96 Albert Lebourg, Paris, l'écluse de la Monnaie. Soleil d'hiver József Rippl - Rónai, Female with Flower, 1891 Management The Directors have been : Françoise Cachin : 1986 -- 1994 Henri Loyrette : 1994 -- 2001 Serge Lemoine : 2001 -- 2008 Guy Cogeval : March 2008 -- present See also Paris portal List of museums in Paris Gare d'Orsay The former railway station Musée d'Orsay ( Paris RER ) The RER station now serving the museum. `` Vincent and the Doctor '' A 2010 episode of Doctor Who featuring three visits to the museum, and Vincent seeing his own paintings. The works of Paul Dubois - French sculptor References Jump up ^ `` Musée d'Orsay : About ''. ARTINFO. 2008. Retrieved 30 July 2008. Jump up ^ `` Exhibition and museum attendance figures 2009 '' ( PDF ). London : The Art Newspaper. April 2010. Retrieved 20 May 2010. Jump up ^ `` Bouygues website : Musée d'Orsay ''. Bouygues.com. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2012. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Musée d'Orsay. 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Question: where is the musee d'orsay located in paris
Answer: on the Left Bank of the Seine