Spiffy new Musee d'Orsay website
May 10th, 2007 | 08:29 AM
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Spiffy new Musee d'Orsay website
The Musee d'Orsay has a new website (must have introduced it in the last week or two)--a great new feature: you can look up artists or search a floor plan and see EXACTLY what's on view. Particularly useful since the Orsay sends out loans a lot. Saves one from looking all over for a favorite piece that's not there. Instead you can say, "Darn! Van Gogh's Bedroom is in Japan!" to your computer and get over it before you arrive.
We were talking about Caillebotte's Floor Scrapers in another thread before. It's on view.
We were talking about Caillebotte's Floor Scrapers in another thread before. It's on view.
May 10th, 2007 | 09:19 AM
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old site was: www.musee-orsay.fr and assume OP means this site is renewed.
May 10th, 2007 | 09:29 AM
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I've mentioned the D'orsay website a few times:
Author: Girlspytravel
Date: 04/18/2007, 01:16 pm
Uminy-what you should do is take one of the Bateaux Mouches boat trips down the Seine-this is wonderful, it passes by the monuments, you're on the water, and you get a sense of the beauty and grandeur and old world elegance of the city. You don't have to book through some agency, you can just buy a ticket for a tour yourself at the Pier on the Eiffel Tower-for 10 Euro. You might want to do their lunch cruise as well, that would be fun and relaxing, or, do the tour, and then make a reservation for lunch at the Musee d'Orsay museum-they have a prix fixe menu for lunch for around 15 Euro, with its lovely Belle Epoque interior, it's a great place to dine, and you don't have to go through the museum to get to it.
You can see the restaurant here, on its website:
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/visits/...urant.html?S=0
If you have time, and it's night, you need to take a stroll around the Eiffel Tower, so that you can see the sparkles go off around the Tower which happens on the hour until around midnight. You could also go up in the Eiffel Tower's restaurant L'Altitude 95, located on the first level of the Tower-for an aperitif and snack before leaving.
Author: Girlspytravel
Date: 04/18/2007, 01:16 pm
Uminy-what you should do is take one of the Bateaux Mouches boat trips down the Seine-this is wonderful, it passes by the monuments, you're on the water, and you get a sense of the beauty and grandeur and old world elegance of the city. You don't have to book through some agency, you can just buy a ticket for a tour yourself at the Pier on the Eiffel Tower-for 10 Euro. You might want to do their lunch cruise as well, that would be fun and relaxing, or, do the tour, and then make a reservation for lunch at the Musee d'Orsay museum-they have a prix fixe menu for lunch for around 15 Euro, with its lovely Belle Epoque interior, it's a great place to dine, and you don't have to go through the museum to get to it.
You can see the restaurant here, on its website:
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/visits/...urant.html?S=0
If you have time, and it's night, you need to take a stroll around the Eiffel Tower, so that you can see the sparkles go off around the Tower which happens on the hour until around midnight. You could also go up in the Eiffel Tower's restaurant L'Altitude 95, located on the first level of the Tower-for an aperitif and snack before leaving.
May 10th, 2007 | 02:32 PM
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I wasn't clear: it's the same web address as before, but the look and format of the site are completely different. The searchable object catalogue was definitely not on the earlier site (I was just on that site a couple of weeks ago, so the new version must have just been put up).
