Musée d-Orsay

Pros: all of it
Cons: can get very crowded in the impressionist gallery

I never miss a visit to the Musee d' Orsay when in Paris.

From the first step you take inside, it's hard to believe this was once a train station, transformed from the neoclassical, Gare d'Orsay, into one of the greatest museums in the world....

Pros: The greatest single collection of Impressionist Art, housed in a magnificent old railway station.
Cons: Much smaller than the Louvre but still too much to appreciate in one visit.

Once there was an old railway station. Built in 1900, the Gare d'Orsay was the Grand Central Station of Paris, crossroads of Europe before the Wars changed everything. It was a monolithic structure, built on numerous levels serving Central Paris for ...

Pros: Hundreds of famous works of art
Cons: Sensory overload

If you enjoy visiting art museums, Paris really is the place to go to. In the last 20 years or so, Paris museums re-organised their collections and the musée d'Orsay became the receptacle for art dated between 1848 and 1914. ~The Gare d'Orsay~ ...

Pros: Pleasing setting, hundreds of varied works
Cons: Difficult to negotiate

My family and I took a trip to Paris last July, and the Musée d'Orsay was one of the sites I most looked forward to seeing. I wasn't disappointed in the least, knowing that I would see hundreds of works by impressionists, sculptors, and craftsmen of Art...

Pros: Lots of natural lighting, great collection of Impressionism, easy to navigate, not overwhelming
Cons: May have long lines (see Museum Pass note), closed on Mondays

Every time I visit Paris, I make a point to visit the Musee d'Orsay. THE BUILDING First off, this remarkable museum was once a train station! The train station, built from 1898-1900 is architecture from the turn of the century: a gigantic, daring, ...

Pros: great collection of art, one of the world's most famous museums
Cons: No, Mona Lisa not included

If I had to pick my favorite museum, it would not be the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Met in New York, the Kunsthistorisches museum in Vienna, or British Museum in London. It would not be the Louvre either.

I would choose the Musee...

Pros: Impressionist painting exhibit!!
Cons: Can't think of any

My husband and I visited the Musee d'Orsay in November 1999. I loved this place. We spent half the day in the Louvre and the other half in the Musee d'Orsay. The Louvre is more famous and much larger, but the Musee d'Orsay is definitely worth a...

Pros: Magnificent artwork, beautiful facility
Cons: None

I visited Paris in June and had only two days. (I managed to squeeze a weekend in Paris during a business trip.) We had to choose only one museum and opted for the Musee d'Orsay because it opened earlier than the Louvre, was likely to be less crowded,...

Pros: It is light and airy with delicious food and tremendous art!
Cons: Can't think of any cons.

We accidentally found a good way to avoid the crowds waiting in line to get into the Musee D'Orsay when we were in Tourist Information on the Champs Elysee. They suggested we buy a Museum Pass which would allow us to go into a number of Museums on one...

Pros: "accessible" for the average person; spacious and daylight friendly
Cons: none, really

Well, you can see by the little blurb on the Musée d'Orsay that it is housed in a former railway station. And if it wasn't for the blurb, I wouldn't have realized/remembered that its art was "produced between 1848 and 1914." Why, then, am I...

Pros: Monet, Renoir, Degas, Manet, Rodin
Cons: None that I can think of

Do you love Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting? Then the Musee d'Orsay in Paris is for you. One of the world's great art museums, it occupies a former railroad station in the St-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood on the left bank. Opened in 1986,...

Pros: Wonderful collection of art, relatively small and easy to navigate
Cons: Well... if you absolutely don't like art, I guess you won't like it...

My art history professor's hint for anyone visiting Paris was "Everything in the Louvre reproduces very well on slides,�h implying that we shouldn�ft focus all our attention on it, and instead make sure to visit the smaller museums of France's...

Pros: gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous
Cons: always crowded, closed on Mondays

Normally, I am pretty protective of what could become "popular" destinations, because I am naively afraid that some cultural philistine will come along and muck it up, but the musee d'Orsay is already well-known, so I might as well share.
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Pros: Beautiful art in a beautiful setting, central location, manageable size
Cons: none

It is rare, indeed, to find an art museum in which the building is as striking as the works it houses. This is certainly the case with Paris's Musée d'Orsay.

I visited the museum in August of 1995. My mother, sister and I were in Paris for an...

Pros: the flow of the building works well for crowd control
Cons: fear of heights? you'll have trouble with the lay out of the building

Even if you don't enjoy fine art, the renovation of the building that houses the Musee d' Orsay is well worth seeing, built in an atrium style the level of natural light and the immense expansive of glass combines art deco and modernism in a fascinating...