Musée d'Orsay
The cathedral of light and color, where the revolution of modern art blossomed in a majestic railway station.
The Orsay is the world benchmark for the artistic period from 1848 to 1914, filling the gap between the ancient collections of the Louvre and the contemporary art of the Centre Pompidou. Its collection is a triumph of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, with the world's largest collection of masterpieces by Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. Here one witnesses the birth of modernity, from academic realism to the threshold of Cubism.