Musee D'Orsay

I think my favourite Art Gallery is the Musee D'Orsay. It has a collection of paintings & sculptures covering the period 1848 to 1914 which is wonderful, naturellement. It also has an extensive collection of Art Nouveau & Art Deco objets. There is a marvelous room completely decked out in these exquisite pieces. Standing in it, you really know what the velvet rope is for.

I like very much the structure of the building itself. It's built in the old Orsay railway station, and the museum part is sitting inside the outer shell. So you get a double sense of architecture. I'll be going there during my Travels With My Aunt in September. She is a painter. She has never been to Paris. Oh boy.