Housed in a restored railway station, Musée d’Orsay is a world-class art museum home to many collections of treasures like sculptures and impressionist paintings. Originally constructed as a Gare d'Orsay (railway station) by architect Victor Laloux for the 1900 Paris World Fair, it was closed in 1939 as the station could no longer accommodate newer, modern trains on its platforms.

It was later decided in 1978 by president Giscard d'Estaing to transform it into a museum for French art collections between 19th and 20th centuries. It has since housed the world’s largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art with works from the likes of Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Van Gogh between 1848 to 1914. In addition, its collections boast all forms ranging from sculptures, to paintings and various kinds of architecture. The museum is a work of art in itself with an enormous, airy atrium with towering ceilings, flooding the interiors with natural sunlight.