D'Orsay Clock Paris

by Joan Carroll

Title

D'Orsay Clock Paris

Artist

Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Digital Art

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One thing you probably could not do when the Musee (museum) d'Orsay was the Gare (railway station) d'Orsay was look directly through the large clock at the top of the building out to Paris' right bank cityscape! From this fifth floor lookout you see the Louvre Museum. In its former life, the Musee d'Orsay was a Beaux-Arts railway station opened in time for the 1900 Exposition Universelle. By 1939, its short platforms were no longer usable for the longer trains in use at the time due to electrification, and during World War II the station became a mailing center. By 1970, it was almost slated for destruction before being saved by several cultural and artistic departments of the government. It was redesigned as a museum, which opened in 1986. It now houses Impressionistic and post-Impressionistic art.

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