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The Musee d’Orsay Museum that starts where The Louvre museum finishes

The Musee d’Orsay Museum In Paris The Musee d'Orsay in Paris was only opened at the end of 1986 and developed from an original railway station, it now holds many fascinating and intriguing works inside. The museum was initially made up through three other museums, being the Louvre Museum , the Musee de Jea de Paume, which is centred around Impressionism and the Musee d’Art Moderne, which transferred to the Pompidou Centre, now only showing works of art from 1870 onwards. The idea was to bring together various different collections that would showcase complete and varied forms of art from 1848 to 1914. But even if the various artworks and history of the Musee d'Orsay can be thought provoking, many donations and bequests have also been given to the museum to help it showcase even more, including works from the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville at the Palais de Tokyo. When the Musee d’Orsay did open, including various long term loans, there were over 1000 pieces of a