Paris: Best of Orsay Museum, guided tour with pre-booked tickets

We designed for you an immersive tour in the Musée d’Orsay where you’ll discover the museum’s evolution from a rail station to a fine arts museum a few decades ago.

The collections of the museum showcase several masterpieces spanning from the mid-19th to the beginning of 20th centuries.  Your guide will lead you through one of the most impressive impressionist and post-impressionist collections in the world. Delve into the works of realist artists like Manet, who paved the way for the impressionists, such as Degas, Pissarro, Renoir, and Monet.

You’ll have the chance to admire works of Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse. 

Your expert guide will tell you about the techniques employed and shed light on the influences that various  artistic movements  had on eachother up until the modern art movement.

In addition to the masterpieces of Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir, Manet, Toulouse Lautrec … you will also discover art nouveau, incredible sculptures  of Rodin and even an original Lady Liberty. Your guide will explain the history of this place. It was originally the Orsay Railway Station,  constructed for the 1900 Universal Exhibition. The building itself is thus, in a way, the first “artwork” in the museum’s collections, presenting the art of the few decades between 1848 and 1914.