iThe Musée d'Orsay holds the world's greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, spanning works created between 1848 and 1914. It occupies the Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle and converted into a museum that opened in 1986. The galleries display paintings by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin alongside sculpture, photography and Art Nouveau decorative arts. The soaring central nave, still crowned by the station's great gilded clock, looks across the Seine to the Louvre and the Tuileries.

Marking 250 years of American independence, this exhibition and an accompanying VR experience trace how sculptor Auguste Bartholdi conceived and built the Statue of Liberty.

An exclusive virtual reality experience running alongside the Bartholdi exhibition, covering almost 700 m² in the Museum's Amont Gallery to trace the Statue of Liberty's journey from Paris to New York.

A display in Room 33 of the 2024 gift of nearly 200 drawings by the Impressionist Marie Bracquemond and engraver Félix Bracquemond, focused on their decorative-arts designs.

To mark the centennial of Claude Monet's death, a dedicated itinerary through the Impressionist Gallery (Rooms 29 to 35) celebrates his life and work.

Marking the museum's 40th anniversary, this show revisits set designer Richard Peduzzi's original 1986 scenography for Orsay through his theatre and opera models, drawings and sculptures.

Co-organised with London's National Gallery and Boston's MFA for Orsay's 40th anniversary, this retrospective of nearly 80 paintings, pastels and prints traces Mary Cassatt's career through her guiding principle of independence.

Around 246 recently acquired sheets trace Maurice Denis's decades-long project to illustrate "The Imitation of Christ," shown alongside his paintings and other works on Christian and spiritual subjects.

An Orsay Lab display in Room 8 pairing collection works with a video made with adolescents in psychiatric care at Pitié-Salpêtrière, on mental health and emotion.

A museum-wide activation by American artist Jenny Holzer: LED installations, facade projections and carved stone benches drawing text from Orsay's 1848-1914 collection.

A "Bicentennial of Photography" retrospective on Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884), the painter-turned-photographer and technical innovator, featuring newly surfaced acquisitions shown for the first time.

A Room 33 display of recent Vuillard gifts, including two overdoor panels completing the Public Gardens series and pieces from the Schopfer dinner service.

Traces how the family, regulated by the Civil Code and reshaped by first-wave feminism and shifting notions of the couple, became a key subject for 19th-century artists depicting modern society.

The first exhibition in France devoted to Édouard Vuillard in almost 25 years, focusing on his lifelong fascination with the theater, from the early 1890s to the late 1930s.

Manet's scandalous 1863 canvas of a nude woman picnicking with two clothed men, rejected by the Salon and now seen as a founding work of modern painting.

Manet's 1863 reclining nude, whose frank gaze and unmistakably modern subject caused outrage at the 1865 Salon and overturned the academic tradition of the idealised nude.

Van Gogh's 1888 night view of the Rhône at Arles, where gaslights and stars shimmer over the water above a couple of lovers, painted in deep blues and glowing orange.

Renoir's 1876 masterpiece capturing a sun-dappled Sunday dance in Montmartre, a vivacious crowd bathed in flickering light, and a landmark of early Impressionism.
1 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur, 75007 Paris, France
Nearest station: Solférino (Metro line 12), Musée d'Orsay (RER C) and Assemblée Nationale (Metro line 12)
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