Orsay Museum tickets and tours
Ticket to Orsay Museum with dedicated entrance
Book your ticket with dedicated entrance to visit the Musée d'Orsay! Discover a fantastic s collection of Impressionist paintings by Cézanne, Degas, Monet, Renoir and Van Gogh and much more!
Musée d’Orsay private tour with local expert guide
Join your fun and local expert tour guide on this private tour as you visit the famous Musée d'Orsay, and discover the collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
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Musée d'Orsay tickets with audio tour on mobile app
Explore the Musée d'Orsay on your own with this audio-guided tour available on your smartphone!
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Impressionist masterpieces at Orsay Museum small group tour
Get your skip-the-line tickets and guided tour of the highlights of the Orsay Museum, and visit the world's largest collection of impressionist art.
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Private guided tour of Orsay Museum
Book your 2-hour private guided tour of the Musée d'Orsay and learn more about the masters of the XIX century in Paris!
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Orsay Museum Semi-Private Guided Tour with Reserved Entry
Join this unique semi-private guided and explore the amazing Musée d'Orsay with reserved entry!
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Book a 2-hour guided tour of Orsay Museum, and see masterpieces by Van Gogh, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Manet, and more.
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Cruise on the Seine River and Canal Saint-Martin from Orsay Museum
Book your tickets for a cruise on the Seine and on the Canal Saint Martin! Discover Paris' main highlights!
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Go City | Paris All-Inclusive Pass
With the Go City® All-Inclusive Paris Pass enjoy access to many sites, art galleries and monuments, hop-on hop-off bus and sightseeing tours.
Explore Paris at your own pace! Enjoy an app containing over 130 points of interest, famous transport routes, sightseeing itineraries and walking tours.
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Guided bike tour along the Seine
Book a guided bike tour along the river Seine and discover the major highlights of Paris! From Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower, the Conciergerie to the Louvre...
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Sunrise and sightseeing run in Paris
Book this early bird jog to see and learn about the most famous places and landmarks of Paris!
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The inside story
The collections of the Musée d’Orsay are situated in an ex-railway station that’s an architectural delight in its own right. Built for Paris’s 1900 Universal Exhibition, the station had to blend artfully into an area that is also home to the Louvre and the Palais de la Légion d'honneur. For this reason, its architect chose to clad the metal structure with fine masonry.
The new station was very modern in its time, introducing lifts for luggage, elevators for passengers, underground rail tracks and a hotel. Problems started in 1939 when trains became too long to fit the platforms and the station began to serve only suburban passengers. By 1973, the hotel was receiving fewer guests and closed.
For some time, there were discussions about demolishing the station and constructing a new hotel, but the building seemed an ideal site for a museum and was protected as a national monument in 1978. The new Musée D’Orsay opened in 1986 and retained many of the original architectural features, particularly the glass ceilings and huge clock face.