Best museums and exhibitions in Europe

29 May 2012 at 11:26 am

The State Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France)

Housed in the former Parisian train station Gare d’Orsay, the Musée d’Orsay is dedicated to painting, sculpture, architecture, photography and decorative arts. It is renowned for maintaining the largest collection of Impressionist artwork in the world. Here you will find Auguste Clesinger's sculpture Woman Bitten By A Snake as well as works by masters including Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and Vincent Van Gogh.

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Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France)

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