The difficulty that arose in implementing the allocated design was how to fit the new station onto its designated site. The neighbourhood was an extremely elegant one and the station was to face the Louvre and the Jardin des Tuileries. Therefore integrating such a large scale railway station into such an up market district required a lot of skill. Victor Laloux therefore decided to hide the existing exterior metallic structures of the station by building an elegant stone front. He also chose to modernise the interior design in the form of implementing lifts for heavy luggage, separate lifts for passengers and the innovative idea of platforms below ground.
There was also a good reception service on the ground floor. Until , the station acted not only as a place of transit for passengers but also as a location for associations and political parties to hold meeting and banquets. During the Second World War, the Orsay station became a dispatch centre for the sending of parcels to prisoners.
After World War II, the station was no longer used, and in plans had been made to tear it down. Nonetheless, in it was decided to convert the railway station into a museum, which would open years later, in Visitors can still appreciate the charming railway station building as it was when it was opened in In the central part of the ground floor of the Museum there is a collection of striking sculptures and on both sides of the building paintings dating from to On this floor, visitors will see certain decorative elements, as well as a beautifully decorated banquet hall.
In the end, preservationists prevailed. Permission to tear down the station in order to build a large international hotel on the site was denied in , and within a few years, plans were underway to transform the space into a museum focused on art from , cut-off for the Louvre, through , where Centre Pompidou begins.
The new museum opened to rave reviews on December 1, and its collections and popularity have grown ever since. A: The museum had more than 3. For comparison, the Louvre Museum attracted 9. A: Despite being much smaller than the Louvre, the museum's length of feet m and width of feet 75 m make it almost twice as long and wide as an American football field. The iron-framed glass roof soars feet 32 m above the elegant cream-and-black marble ground-level central hall, providing plenty of natural light.
A: There are now around 80 galleries on three levels, plus numerous platforms and pedestals provide additional display space - but a year expansion effort has recently begun, so expect even more space and other changes by At this time, all tickets must be bought online.
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