Les Muses de Paris

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Les Musées de Paris

• Le Musée dOrsay
• Le Musée Rodin
• Par Jenna W.

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Musée dOrsay
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Lhistoire

• Was the old Orsay station and Hotel building
• station opened in 1900
• 1939 the station closed
• People planned to knock it down
• in 1973 was put on the Supplementary Inventory of
  Historical Monuments
• in 1978 it was listed as a Historical Monument
• became a museum in1986.

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Collections

• art from the second half of the 19th century and
  the beginning of the 20th century
• collections mainly come from the Musée du Louvre,
  the Musée du Jeu de Paume, and the Musée dArt
  Moderne.
• The Musée dOrsay focuses on a time period and
  expands the range of the collection
• Time periods include artists born after 1820, or
  those who emerged with the Second Republic (Le
  Musee du Louvre), impressionism from 1947 onward
  (Le Musee du Jeu de Paume), and works by artists
  born after 1870 (Le Musee National dArt Moderne)

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Visitor Information

• Hours
• winter Tuesday-Saturday 10 am-6pm / Sundays
  9am-6pm
• summer 9am-6pm, except Thursday when it closes
  at 945pm
• Closed Dates
• Mondays, January 1st, May 1st, and December 25th
• Address
• 1 Bellechase Road Paris, France 75343
• http//www.paris.org/Maps/MM/
• Public transportation
• use the following bus lines 24, 63, 68, 69, 73,
  83, 84, or 94
• if you use the Metro get off at the Solferino
  Station

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Le Musée Rodin
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Lhistoire

• Once a mansion called Biron Hotel
• built by Abraham Peyre
• died one year after mansion was built
• his widow gave the house to the Dutchess of Maine
• when she died the house went to the Duke
  Dutchess of Biron
• Reign of Terror
• Reign of Napoleon
• House sold to Dames du Sacre-Coeur
• closed in 1905
• mansion was set to be destroyed
• artists(including Rodin) rented rooms

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Lhistoire

• Rodin pleaded with the government
• seven years later the government gave in
• after he made donations to the state
• The museum opened to the public on August 4, 1919

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Collections

• Has both a garden and a main building
• home to marble, bronze, plaster, wax, and
  terracotta sculptures, drawings, ceramics, and
  pieces of art from Auguste Rodin and other
  artists (Renoir, Monet Van Gogh)
• Le Musee Rodin shares 6,600 sculptures with the
  Villa des Brilliants in Meudon.
• There are childhood paintings of Augustes family
  and friends
• all of Rodins works have similar themes
• The Musee Rodins collection includes The Kiss
  and The Thinker

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Visitor Information

• You can visit the garden and the building
  separately.
• Hours
• 930am- 545pm
• cafeteria- 930am - 630pm April 1 to September
  30
• 930am - 430pm October 1 to March 31
• closed on Monday, January 1, May 1, and December
  25
• Admission
• Full rate - 5 euros
• Reduced rate - 3 euros
• If you are under 18 years old you get in free
• just garden - 1 euro

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Visitor Information

• Address
• 77 Varenne Road Paris, France 75007
• http//www.paris.org/Maps/MM/
• Public Transportation
• You can use bus lines 28, 49, 69, 82, or 92
• You can also take the Metro and get off at the
  Varenne Station

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En Français

• Le Musée dOrsay
• Le musée d'Orsay est une ancienne gare.
• Maintenant on peut y voir beaucoup de collections
  célèbres comme les tableaux des Impressionnistes.
• Le Musée Rodin
• Le musée Rodin est connu pour des sculptures
  remarquables comme  Le Penseur .
• Au musée Rodin on peut voir l'art dAuguste Rodin
  et dautres artistes célèbres.

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