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The opening of the musée d’Orsay — The opening to the public, in 1986, of the museum installed in the former Orsay station
A Council of State palace burned under the Commune, then a station inaugurated for the 1900 Exposition, then a prisoners’ reception centre, an auction room and a theatre: the building was saved from demolition under Pompidou, destined for a museum by Giscard d’Estaing in 1977, transformed, then inaugurated by Mitterrand. Three presidents for one museum. (Editorial synthesis)
The opening of the musée d’Orsay took place on 9 December 1986. (source: Ministère de la Culture)
The opening of the musée d’Orsay took place in Paris. (source: Larousse)
The opening of the musée d’Orsay ended in a museum of nineteenth-century art installed in a station saved from demolition. (source: Ministère de la Culture)
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