Musee d'Orsay

In April of this year, I went to Paris for a few days and it was lovely. In the time we were there, my boyfriend and I managed to fit in a couple of museums/galleries as well as doing all the usual touristy stuff, of which a personal highlight of mine was eating giant Laduree macaroons on the Champs Elysees, which was pretty great.

The first of these was the Musee d'Orsay. Situated just by the Seine in an old railway station, it's packed full of art, all of which was free for me because I was an EU citizen under the age of 25, how wonderful!

Being a converted railway station means that one of the coolest things about the Musee d'Orsay is the building! Despite the fact that you can definitely tell that it was a product of the 80s (think incredibly retro wall panels and floors and colour schemes, especially in the room with the art nouveau furniture...), it's definitely worth disobeying the 'photographie interdite' signs to grab some pictures.

Another nice architectural feature of the Musee is the big clocks on the upper floors. I tried for ages to get a photograph without people in, but that was not to be and I had to settle for these ones, which I hope capture the fact that looking through the clocks gave a really snazzy view of the city of Paris.