Paris Attractions - Paris Sightseeing

Next to the Tuileries Gardens on the Right Bank of the Seine, a former royal palace undergoing massive expansion that will make it the biggest museum in the world by 1992 with even more treasures on display (many of them are at present in the cellars), and escalators to make those long walks down endless corridors less tiring.
The glass pyramid, designed by the Chinese-American Pei, at the entrance from Cour Napoléon is open, but the excavations will continue for several years. The Ministry of Finance is due to move out to Bercy.
There are seven different museums in the Louvre : Oriental Antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Painting, Sculpture, Furniture and objets d’art. Top of your list should be Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, the Winged Victory and Venus de Milo.
There is no possibility of being able to do it all at once, so pick out the works you particularly want to see, and do your best to find them.

You don’t want to stand in line to buy your ticket! Get your Louvre Museum Pass.

7th arr., 62 rue de Lille
Opened at the end of 1986. Impressionist paintings, fine and decorative arts, architecture and photography from 1848 to 1914 (variously moved from the Jeu de Paume, the Palais de Tokyo, and the Louvre) now housed in the spectacularly renovated, airy Gare d’Orsay, the former railway station that served southwest France. The transformation took 13 million dollars en ten years.
Go straight to the top, third floor for Impressionist paintings : room upon room of the most famous works of Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Pissaro, Sisle and Degas. The middle floor exhibits include sculpture by Rodin an Maillol, paintings by Bonnard and Vuillard, works representing Foreign Schools, Symbolism and Naturalism, and Art Nouveau furniture.
The ground floor has Decorative Arts 1850-1880 as well as Degas, Manet, Monet and Renoir pre-1870 and a good bookshop in the original buffet. The Café des Hauteurs on the top floor has views through the old station clock over the Seine, and there is an outside terrace to get your breath back. More formal meals are served in the sumptuous restaurant, with chandeliers, painted ceiling and statues. There are also changing exhibitions, concerts, films and lectures.