Musée d'Orsay

Originally constructed as the Gare d'Orsay railway station by Victor Laloux for the 1900 Paris Exposition. Transformed into a museum in 1986 under President François Mitterrand, housing 1848–1914 art.

A triumphant synthesis of Industrial Age metallurgy and classical stone masonry, preserving the luminous revolution of Impressionist light on the Left Bank.

The giant station clocks were supposedly synchronized via an experimental pneumatic subterranean clock pulse network installed by Parisian horologists.