Hall introduction: The Musée d'Orsay was originally a train station built in 1900. It was the Orr racing station, the terminus of the railway from Paris to Orleans. In 1939 the railway into Paris was canceled and the station closed. It was listed as a protected historical building in 1978 and converted into a museum in 1986, bringing together all the relevant collections originally stored in the Louvre, the Rudebaud Museum and the National Museum of Modern Art at the Center Pompidou. On display here. The original station clock is still retained in the lobby.