Located at the end of the museum's central aisle in a space designed by Richard Peduzzi, the opera gallery presents all aspects of the monument, town planning, architecture and decoration, through a polychrome plaster cross-section of the building as it was at the time of its inauguration on January 5, 1875, as well as a 1/100 scale model of the surrounding district as it was in 1914. A whole generation of artists, painters, sculptors, decorators and ornamentists worked on the opera house, which had a lasting influence on western architecture. The emphasis was therefore put on one of the emblematic buildings of the Second Empire which was finished during the Third Republic: the new Paris Opera house, designed by Charles Garnier and built from 1863 to 1875. It was impossible to illustrate the great changes wrought by Napoleon III and the prefect Haussmann which turned Paris into a modern capital. The museum building, itself an emanation of 19th-century aesthetics and techniques, lends itself to an evocation of the construction work demanded by modern life, the diversity of the materials used and industry's contribution to the development of new building programs.Īrchitecture was allocated permanent exhibition areas in the museum. © photo musée d'Orsay, A.Point, JPhG / DR An attempt was made to find parallels, correspondences and interaction between them by drawing up a program which acknowledges all the diversity and similarities of an outstanding period. The museum's originality comes from the inclusion of the architectural section in a circuit presenting other forms of art which are appreciated in a very different way. When it was decided to convert the Orsay railway station into a new museum encompassing various forms of art produced from 1848 to 1914, architecture was naturally included in the project as if it had always been a museum piece and could easily be displayed, when in fact it was, and still is, seldom represented in existing museums.
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