<Tr> <Th> Public transit access </Th> <Td> Solférino Musée d'Orsay </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.musee-orsay.fr </Td> </Tr> <P> The Musée d'Orsay (French pronunciation: ​ (myze dɔʁsɛ)) 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 1914, 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, Cézanne, 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 . It is one of the largest art museums in Europe . </P> <P> The museum building was originally a railway station, Gare d'Orsay, constructed for the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans and finished in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle to the design of three architects: Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux . It was the terminus for the railways of southwestern France until 1939 . </P>

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