
Orsay Museum tickets and tours

Musée d’Orsay tickets and small group tour
Join your fun and expert tour guide in a small group as you visit the famous Musée d'Orsay, and discover the collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
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Entrance ticket to Orsay Museum and audioguide
Book your entrance ticket with audioguide to the Orsay Museum in Paris! Discover the impressive permanent collection and access the temporary exhibitions!
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Musée d'Orsay tickets with audio tour on mobile app
Explore the Musée d'Orsay on your own with this audio-guided tour available on your smartphone!
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Impressionist masterpieces tour of Orsay Museum with priority access
Book a 2-hour tour of Orsay Museum with skip-the-line entrance. Your local guide will show you the most famous masterpieces by Manet, Monet, Renoir and Van Gogh.
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Private guided tour of Orsay Museum
Book your 2-hour private guided tour of the Musée d'Orsay and learn more about the masters of the XIX century in Paris!
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Private family tour of Orsay Museum
Discover the most fantastic collection of Impressionist art in a playful way with this private family tour of Orsay Museum!
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Private tour of Orsay Museum
Book a 2-hour guided tour of Orsay Museum, and see masterpieces by Van Gogh, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Manet, and more.
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Paris Museum Pass
Book your Paris Museum Pass, and visit without more than 50 museums and monuments in Paris and the surrounding area!

Batobus pass | Hop-on hop-off boat on the Seine
Book a 1-day or 2-day Batobus pass and explore the main attractions and districts of Paris now!

Musée d'Orsay highlights tour and gourmet lunch
Book a guided tour of the most famous Impressionist masterpieces of Musée d'Orsay and enjoy a French gourmet lunch.
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Paris self-guided audio tour
Explore Paris at your own pace! Enjoy an app containing over 130 points of interest, famous transport routes, sightseeing itineraries and walking tours.
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Guided tour of the Musée d’Orsay in small group of 6
Bypass the often long lines and enjoy this magnificent museum with a small group of seven people. See masterpieces by Manet, Renoir, Cézanne and Rodin!
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The inside story
The collections of the Musée d’Orsay are situated in an ex-railway station that’s an architectural delight in its own right. Built for Paris’s 1900 Universal Exhibition, the station had to blend artfully into an area that is also home to the Louvre and the Palais de la Légion d'honneur. For this reason, its architect chose to clad the metal structure with fine masonry.
The new station was very modern in its time, introducing lifts for luggage, elevators for passengers, underground rail tracks and a hotel. Problems started in 1939 when trains became too long to fit the platforms and the station began to serve only suburban passengers. By 1973, the hotel was receiving fewer guests and closed.
For some time, there were discussions about demolishing the station and constructing a new hotel, but the building seemed an ideal site for a museum and was protected as a national monument in 1978. The new Musée D’Orsay opened in 1986 and retained many of the original architectural features, particular the glass ceilings and huge clock face.