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At anytime about 3,000 art pieces are on display for the public to view within Musée d'Orsay. Created by Richard Peduzzi, the Paris Opera has become an attraction at Orsay. Within Musée d'Orsay is a 1:100 scale model of an arial view of Paris Opera and surrounding area capsulated underneath glass flooring that viewers walk on as they proceed through the museum. This installation allows the viewers to understand the city planning of Paris at the time through the view of a bird, which has made this attraction one of the most popular within the museum.

Another exhibit within the museum is "A Passion for France: The Marlene and Spencer Hays Collection." This collection was donated by an Marlene and Spencer Hays, art collectors who reside in Texas and have been collecting art since the early 1970s. In 2016 the museum complied to keeping the collection of about 600 art pieces in one collection rather than dispersed throughout other exhibits. Since World War II, France has not been donated a collection of foreign art this large. The collection favors mostly post-impressionist works. Artists featured in this collection are Bonnard, Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Odilon Redon, Aristide Maillol, André Derain, Edgar Degas, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. To make room for the art that has been donated, the Musée d’Orsay is scheduled to undergo a radical transformation over the next decade, 2020 on. This remodel is funded in part by an anonymous US patron who donated €20 million to a building project known as Orsay Grand Ouvert (Orsay Wide Open). The gift was made via the American Friends of the Musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie. The projected completion date is 2026, implementing new galleries and education opportunities to endorse a conductive experience.

History

A closed competition in 1978-1979 was held to decide on the new design of Musee d'Orsay before the opening of the museum. Out of six submissions the decision came down to two due to the fact that four other groups had altered the building immensely. The design of A.C.T. Architecture and Yves Boiret were both competing for the opportunity to redesign Musee d'Orsay.

Features artwork from 1848 to 1914.

Located in Pairs France next to the Seine river, the Gare d'Orsay railway station was in a central spot, great for commuting travelers.

orsay means the department in-charge of foreign affairs.

The Gare d'Orsay design was known to be "anachronism." Since trains were such a modern innovation for the time architects and designers alike expected a building that would embody the modern traits of this new mode of transportation. Gare d'Orsay instead gained inspiration from the past for the concept of the facade, almost to mask the cutting-edge technology within.

By the year 1939 Orsay was only able to assist suburban commuters and could no longer support the newer, larger versions of trains. In 1971 the Gare d'Orsay was set to be demolished, to house a hotel/convention center, since it was left vacant. Since the building is still standing, it was not demolished in 1971, but instead was named a historical monument in 1973. What saved Orsay was the willingness to preserve the historic architecture.

Sculptures

The art form of sculpture was in high demand in the 19th century and became a widely used as a way to display a person's social and political standings as well as represent the ideologies during this time period. However, In the mid 20th century sculptures began to become obsolete due to many of the sculptures relating to authority. After the change in view on many of the sculptures from the 19th century they began to be set aside in storage and were no longer being set out for display. It wasn't until the conversion of the Orsay railway station into the Musée d'Orsay museum in the 1970's that sculptures from the 19th century were seen of importance again. The substantial nave inside the new museum offered a perfect area for the display of sculptures. During the grand opening on December, 1986 of the museum 1,200 different sculptures were present. The sculpture were brought in from various different collections such as, the Lourve, state loans, and Musée du Luxembourg. The museum also obtained over 200 sculptures before opening though donations of art connoisseurs, the lineage of artists, and overall people in support of the Musée d'Orsay.

Since the grand opening in 1986 the museum has collected works from exchanges that other museum's or institutions once showcases such as Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science by Louis-Ernest Barrias that was initially commissioned for Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, as well as, The Thought and The Gates of Hell from Auguste Rodin. The museum also purchases specific works to fill gaps and finish the astounding collections already in the museum such as one of the panels of Gauguin's Be Mysterious(bought in 1979), the full set of Honoré Daumier's Célébrités du Juste Milieu, and Maturity by Camille Claudel. The Musée d'Orsay sculpture collection now numbers over 2,200 pieces, including loans to other establishments. The collection is more vigorous than ever, keeping alive the desire to know and admire the sculpture of the second half of the 19th century.

Ernest Barrias, Nature Unveiling Herself, 1899

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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. ----- (new version) 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 are housed within Musée d'Orsay. (changing grammar of sentence)

In 1981, the Italian architect Gae Aulenti was chosen to design the interior including the internal arrangement, decoration, furniture and fittings of the museum. (adding to paragraph)-->The arrangement of the galleries he designed was elaborate and inhabited the three main levels that are under the museum's barrel vault atrium. On the main level of the building, a central nave was formed by the surrounding stone structures that were previously the building's train platforms. The central nave's structures break up the immense sculpture and gallery spaces and provided more organized units for viewing the art.