Online at Musée d'Orsay and elsewhere

Some clips from an online history of the Musée d'Orsay at Google Arts and Culture:

For the painter Edouard Detaille, the station was "superb and resembles a Palace of Fine Arts". Victor Laloux wanted to create “more comfortable and more luxurious spaces” than were found in traditional stations.

At the end of the competition, a team of three young architects from A.C.T. Architecture (Pierre Colboc, Renaud Bardon and Jean-Paul Philippon) were entrusted with the task of transforming the former station into a museum.

One of the museum’s innovations was to bring together all the artworks from a very short, but extremely productive period (1848-1914). Painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts and photography were displayed side by side. This presentation drew the visitor’s attention to previously discredited artists and to Academic artists.

[T]he entire Post-Impressionist section, from Van Gogh and Gauguin to the Nabis, was brought together in the refurbished galleries on the median level.

Not in the online tour, but if you go to the cafe upstairs, and look out through the clock face, you get this view. One of my favorite lunch spots in the world:

• From Station to the Renovated Musée d'Orsay (link)

• Self Portrait - Vincent van Gogh, 1889 (link)

• Stuck at Home? These 12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours You Can Take on Your Couch (link)