Musée d'Orsay

Just opposite the Louvre on the left bank of the Seine, the Musee d'Orsay continues on from the Louvre's collection, holding mostly French art from the period 1848 to 1915, including the largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces in the world by painters such as Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh. The building used to be the Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built for the Exposition Universelle in 1900.

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