Museum · 7th arrondissement · Paris
Musée d'Orsay
Station vaults, soft daylight and paintings you already know by heart
When it fits
Best in the afternoon · about 150 min
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Where it is
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Straight-line distances: Musée de l'Orangerie 513 m · Musée du Louvre 697 m · Café de Flore 782 m. Not travel times.
Why Aura
Impressionists inside a former railway station. Thursday evenings have a reduced late-opening rate and thinner crowds; look out through the great clock window toward Montmartre.
IconicFine in the rainNeeds bookingRomantic
Today09:30–18:00
All hours
Tu-Su 09:30-18:00; Th 09:30-21:45 (checked 2024-03-16)Price range€14–16 per ticket
Visit lengthAbout 150 min
WeatherIndoorsUsed by the rain swap in Live
EffortSome slopes or steps
Sources and dates (6)
- When it fits: Aura editorial estimate.
- Today: OpenStreetMap (checked 2024-03-16)
- Price range: per musee-orsay.fr, read 27 Sept 2026
- Visit length: Aura estimate
- Effort: Aura estimate
- Tags are Aura editorial judgement.
Why, feel, tags and tips are Aura editorial. Hours and positions come from OpenStreetMap; prices only when read from a named source on a date. Ratings and reviews are not shown: no provider is connected in this build, and under EEA terms Google ratings may appear only inside Google’s own place card.
- musee-orsay.fr — rates · official · read 27 Sept 2026
- Orsay ticket office — Thursday late rate · official · read 27 Sept 2026
- OSM way/63178753 · osm · read 27 Sept 2026
Also in this area
Musée du Louvre1st arrondissement · Pick two wings, not the whole palace: book a timed ticket, enter at opening and head away from the Mona Lisa crowd first. Closed on Tuesdays.Musée de l'Orangerie1st arrondissement, Tuileries · Monet's Water Lilies wrap two oval rooms lit from above. A short, calm visit that pairs with a walk through the Tuileries; closed on Tuesdays.
Sainte-ChapelleÎle de la Cité, 1st arrondissement · Climb to the upper chapel on a sunny morning, when the 13th-century stained glass throws colour across the floor. Book a time slot; a combined ticket with the Conciergerie exists.