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Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Photo: Renaud Camus from Plieux, France, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A former railway station on the Left Bank of the Seine, now home to the world's greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art: Monet, Renoir, Degas, Manet, Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh. The great clock windows on the top floor give views across the river to the Louvre and Sacré-Cœur.


Book a timed ticket online. It's closed on Mondays and open late on Thursdays. The nearby Musée de l'Orangerie displays Monet's huge Water Lilies paintings in two oval rooms.

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