Musée d'Orsay PARIS, FRANCE

The Musée d'Orsay. In the former Orsay rail station opposite the Seine and Jardin des Tuileries, the Musée d’Orsay walks visitors through the preeminent fruits of artistic expression created between 1848 and 1914, with an impressive yet manageable collection representing the Impressionist, Post Impressionist, and Art Nouveau movements. For me, an opportunity to come face-to-face with iconic original pieces by many artists studied in high school French class: Manet, Degas, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir, van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec.