Artnet

The Musée d’Orsay Has Apologized After Museum Staff Reprimanded a Female Visitor for Her ‘Indecent’ Attire. (It Was a Dress)

The Musée d’Orsay in Paris is under a firestorm of criticism after a young woman penned a shocking open letter to the institution describing how museum staff sexually discriminated against her earlier ...

Did you know? The building that houses the Musée d’Orsay in Paris was actually a former train station.

The Musée d’Orsay, renowned for its collection of Impressionist masterpieces, is housed in a former train station built in ...
Artnet

Fancy a Night at the Museum? Airbnb Is Offering a Stay at the Musée d’Orsay

When the Musée d’Orsay took up residence in a historic rail station in Paris in 1986, it filled the building’s train hall with large-scale sculptures and the former railway hotel with its prized ...
The New York Times

Two Trickster Artists Provide New Perspective at Musée d’Orsay

This fall, the duo behind ‘Prada Marfa’ bring their playfulness to Paris, turning a venerable museum on its head. By Keridwen Cornelius Reporting from Berlin Watch a full moon rise above the horizon ...
CNN

Woman in low-cut dress denied entry to Musee d’Orsay

A woman barred from entering one of France’s most prestigious art galleries apparently because she was wearing a low-cut dress has received an apology after sharing details of the incident on social ...
Radio France Internationale

Musée d'Orsay becomes first major Parisian museum to reopen

The Paris’s Musée d'Orsay finally reopened on Tuesday but for those who reserved, with masks and a reduced number of visitors per day to between 4,000 and 5,000, according to Laurence des Cars, the ...
Observer

The Musée d’Orsay’s Name is Being Updated to Include Valéry Giscard d’Estaing’s Name

The Musée d’Orsay on the banks of the Seine in Paris on December 08, 2020 in Paris, France. Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images When it comes to the art world, the names of certain institutions ...
The Art Newspaper

'Musée d’Orsay can no longer be a tourist factory': Christophe Leribault named new director of Paris museum

The musical chairs of director moves at French public and private institutions continues with the appointment of Christophe Leribault as the president of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and its affiliated ...