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Musee d'Orsay can be said to be one of the many unique museums in the world. From the outside the building seems ordinary - indeed magnificent, qipao but nothing special - like other magnificent buildings are scattered in the city of Paris. When entering this museum you'll be amazed - it seems you are familiar with the building like this, and it's not a museum.
Yes, Musee d'Orsay qipao was built in the railway station that has been unused, the Gare d'Orsay. Why Gare d'Orsay is not used anymore, we flashback moment to Expositionne Universelle (Paris Expo).
Expositionne Universelle is a world-class exhibition held by countries around qipao the world to share the progress of science, technology and culture is growing. Expositionne Universelle held in Paris in 1900, then known as the event display of the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
As the host, Paris built a lot of facilities and infrastructure to entertain his guests coming from all over the world. Of the 50 million guests who attended the Paris Expo, many of them coming from mainland Europe by train. At that time, the largest station in Paris Gare du Nord there is only located in the north of the city of Paris; for the French government decided to be built in order to accommodate the additional station transport guests qipao with decent: Gare de Lyon in the south of Paris and the Gare d'Orsay in Paris.
Gare d'Orsay station was originally a palace, the Palais d'Orsay, which was built in 1810 and used as a republic council building. Its location on the banks of the river Seine, just across from the Louvre museum area. During qipao the riot Paris Commune in 1871 Palais d'Orsay was burned by the people of France (also Tuileries Palace which is opposite) and leaving only ruins.
Fortunately qipao paintings, sculptures and items of classical art in the Palais d'Orsay was saved and stored in the palace of Versailles. For nearly three decades the ruins of the palace became a monument to the atrocities of civil war in France.
Gare d'Orsay was designed by Lucien Magne, Emile Benard and Victor Laloux station began in 1897. The business and city government of Paris asked the architect to make sure the design is fused with pomp station Louvre Museum and the Palais de la Legion d'honneur that is not far from there ,
Gare d'Orsay was finally built with a blend of classic style (exterior of stone) and modern-industrial (interior frame of steel) as well as along the transparent glass roof. Hall widest stretches along 140 meters with a width of 40 meters and height qipao of 32 meters.
Steel used to build the Gare d'Orsay is around 12000 tonnes, more than that used to build the Eiffel Tower. Built in two years, the Gare d'Orsay was inaugurated just in time for the Paris Expo begins, July 14, 1900.
Several decades later, in 1939, the Gare d'Orsay is closed and no longer qipao used as a railway station because of its structure long enough qipao for the size of modern trains greater capacity. Although you have not functioned as a station, the Gare d'Orsay into a fairly important marker qipao in the history of France, among others, as a package distribution center for soldiers detained abroad during World War II, as well as the return of the soldiers during World War ended.
However, since it is also the Gare d'Orsay ignored and not treated at all until in 1970 the French Parliament issued instructions qipao to destroy the Gare d'Orsay and build a hotel there. Jacques Duhamel who then served as Minister of Culture submitted a proposal to make the Gare d'Orsay as a historic monument.
Seven years later, the incumbent French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing is proposed that the Gare d'Orsay is used as a museum of art to fill the void area between the Louvre Museum in the north and the Museum of Modern Georges Pompidou in the south.
Equipped with a 2 hectare and a four-storey building, three young architects (Colboc, Bardon and Philippon) redesigning the station Gare d'Orsay. They maintain the Beaux-Arts style Laloux works in the entire building, but highlight certain parts in order to fully function as a museum.
Together with a woman of Italian interior architect, Gae Aulenti, the Gare d'Orsay transformed into the Musee d'Orsay. During the first six months of artwork from all over France gathered to fill this museum, until finally there are more than 2000 paintings, 600 sculptures and various other pieces stored neatly in the Musee d'Orsay.
On December 1, 1986 Musee d'Ors