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I’m back after a weekend in Paris with my Wife. Having spent a lot of time there in the past, we are at a stage where we don’t need to see everything in one go, and so decided to spend most of Saturday taking in the Musee d’Orsay.
The museum was once a Railway station (Gare d’Orsay) built in 1900. By 1939 modern trains were becoming too long for the restricted platforms and were forced to stop servicing the station. After a number of years and multiple uses, the new museum opened its doors in 1977, housing the largest collection of Impressionist and post-impressionist paintings in the world.
It’s only upon returning home and engaging with the necessities of daily life that the impact of the art that is housed there sinks in. Saturday is becoming real on Tuesday.
