VERY IMPORTANT FOR PARIS VISITORS 2010 - Impressionist Paintings at d'Orsay Museum Will Be Moved To The United States For 1 year

From January 2010 to March 2011, the museum will be carrying out major renovation work leading to the closure of level 5. This section is where all the Impressionist and post Impressionist paintings are housed. The collections will be displayed in new, specially redesigned rooms in 2011. BUT....The paintings will be shown in the United States during this time period in San Francisco at the De Young Museum for a combined eight months beginning in May 2010 and ending in January 2011. Each exhibition will include approximately 100 paintings from the Musée d’Orsay’s permanent collection and highlights the work of nearly 40 artists including Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Rousseau, Seurat, Sisley, Toulouse-Lautrec, van Gogh and Vuillard. The Musée d’Orsay will loan the exhibitions while it undergoes a partial closure for refurbishment and reinstallation in anticipation of the Musée’s 25th anniversary in 2011. The de Young will be the only museum in the world to host both exhibitions.