   the musÃ©e d'orsay () 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 1915, 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, cÃ©zanne, 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. ==history==   thumb|left|170px|the interior of the museum. the museum building was originally a railway station, gare d'orsay, constructed for the chemin de fer de paris Ã  orlÃ©ans and finished in time for the 1900 exposition universelle to the design of three architects: lucien magne, Ãmile bÃ©nard 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 suburba
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