Musée d'Orsay's future seems even brighter with an expansion currently underway that will add more that 13,000 square feet of gallery space. Perhaps now is a good time to look back and review some of the perils Orsay has faced over the last 200-plus years and new sculptures fell out of favor. Works were neglected or put in storage. But with the opening of the Musée d'Orsay in 1986, which celebrate the art of the 19th century, there was a brand new home and a revived appreciation of this body of work. There are now hundreds of magnificent sculptures at d'Orsay. We'll take you to eleven of the best.
A corner of the building were elevators used to be located was repurposed to house the museum's collection of decorative arts from the second half of the 19th century — from the period knowns as the Second Empire to Art Nouveau. Let's take a virtual tour of four levels of the art of everyday objects.