The Orsay Museum
All year round, Air Corsica operates direct flights between the four Corsican airports of Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi and Figari to the capital via Paris-Orly and Paris-Charles de Gaulle airports during the summer. Enough to visit the greatest Parisian monuments at any time...!
Already original by its location in an old station, the Orsay museum is full of other attractions. Located in the heart of Paris, along the Seine and facing the Jardin des Tuileries, it is housed in the former Orsay station, a building built for the 1900 Universal Exhibition. Thus, the building is already, in a way, a work of art on its own.
The National museum opened to the public on 9 December 1986 to show, in all its diversity, the artistic creation of the Western world from 1848 to 191.The Orsay museum was made up of national collections mainly from three institutions:
The Louvre Museum for works by artists born from 1820 onwards, or emerging in the art world with the Second Republic;
The Museum of the Game of Palm dedicated since 1947 to Impressionism;
The National Modern Art Museum, which, when it moved to the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1976, kept only the works of artists born after 1870.
Known throughout the world for its rich collection of impressionist art, the Orsay Museum also represents all forms of expression: from painting to architecture, sculpture, decorative arts and photography. At the end of 2011, the Museum reopened all its spaces, completely renovated, with new rooms: an additional 400 m² for the upstream pavilion, post-impressionist artists in the heart of the Museum, the restructuring of the Impressionist Gallery, a new temporary exhibition space and the new "aquatic" decoration of the “Café des Hauteurs”, designed by two Brazilian designers.
Lovers of Art and Culture, Air Corsica allows you to find your happiness by regularly taking you to Paris, throughout the year, by direct flights from Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi and Figari via Orly or Roissy!
