Musée d'Orsay Private Guided Tour in Italian

About this tour

Spend time inside the Musée d'Orsay with a private guide who leads your group of six or fewer in Italian through the museum's permanent collection. You'll move across the floors of this former railway station, from the sculpture-filled main hall up to the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist galleries, where paintings by Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir, Degas, and Cézanne hang. Museum entry is included, and the small group size keeps things personal rather than rushed.

Guide Languages

Italian

Highlights

• See the world's largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, the heart of the Musée d'Orsay.
• View landmark canvases including Van Gogh's Starry Night Over the Rhône and Self-Portrait, Monet's Water Lilies, and Renoir's Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette.
• Take in Degas' ballet dancers, Manet's groundbreaking paintings, and Cézanne's compositions.
• Walk through the Beaux-Arts interior of a building first raised as a train station for the 1900 World's Fair.
• Look out over the Seine through the museum's giant gilded clock windows on the upper level.
• Enjoy a calmer, more focused alternative to the Louvre, well suited to travelers who want real depth without the crowds.
• Explore art spanning roughly 1848 to 1914, bridging the eras covered by the Louvre and the Centre Pompidou.
• Find painting, sculpture, decorative arts, photography, and architecture all under one roof from the same decades.
• Visit a museum set on the Seine's Left Bank, directly across the water from the Tuileries and a short walk from the Louvre.

Places You Will Visit

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Visiting the Musée d'Orsay: Hours, Getting There, and the Galleries

This tour is guided in Italian, with a small private group of six people or fewer, so you can follow the collection at a steady pace rather than being swept along in a crowd. You'll meet at the Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, right at the museum on the Seine's Left Bank, and work through the building floor by floor. The vast main hall under its iron-and-glass roof holds the sculpture and large-scale paintings, while the upper floors carry the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist galleries that most people come to see. The great gilded clock on the top level frames one of the best views in Paris, out over the Seine toward Montmartre. Most visits run about two to three hours.

The Musée d'Orsay is open Tuesday through Sunday and closed on Mondays, as well as on 1 May and 25 December. Standard hours are 09:30 to 18:00, with a later closing of 21:45 on Thursdays, which tends to be quieter. Last admission is at 17:00 (21:00 on Thursdays), and the galleries start clearing around 17:30 (21:15 on Thursdays). The museum sits a short walk from the Louvre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés; the closest public transport is RER Line C to the Musée d'Orsay stop, Metro Line 12 to Solférino, or several bus lines along the river. If you've booked ahead, pre-booked ticket holders use Entrance C.

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Available Days / Times

• Monday
• Tuesday : 10:00, 13:30
• Wednesday : 10:00, 13:30
• Thursday : 10:00, 13:30, 17:00
• Friday : 10:00, 13:30
• Saturday : 10:00, 13:30
• Sunday

Last updated: Oct 23, 2026