The Musee d'Orsay is an art museum on the left bank of the Seine in Paris, housed in a former railway station, the Gare d'Orsay. The station, designed by the architect Victor Laloux, opened in 1900 for the Universal Exhibition, but its platforms soon became too short for modern trains, and it was threatened with demolition in the 1970s. Instead it was converted into a museum by the architects of a team that included the Italian designer Gae Aulenti, and it opened to the public in 1986. Its collection covers art from about 1848 to 1914 and holds many of the world's best-known Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works, by artists such as Monet, Renoir, Degas, Van Gogh and Cezanne.
Before and after
- 8 December 1985Founding of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
- 28 December 1985First flight of Fokker 50
- 30 December 1985Discovery of Puck
- 1986Launch of The Independent
- 1986Construction of Musée d'Orsay
- 1986Rise of Slow Food
- 1986Construction of Faisal Mosque
- from 1986 to 1989Anfal campaign
- 3 January 1986Discovery of Juliet
More in Art, literature & culture
- 1949Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four
- c. 1950sRise of pop art
- 1955Publication of Guinness World Records
- from 31 March 1997 to 11 November 2022Premiere of Teletubbies
- 2003Construction of Three Gorges Dam
- 2004Construction of Cam Ranh International Airport
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 20th century.