The Musée d’Orsay is partnering with 12 museums around France in a project that uses impressionist art to highlight climate change – works that collectively tell the story of human enterprise at the end of the 19th century, and the role artists of the time played in unintentionally documenting the causes of the environmental crisis we are witnessing today.
Sitting on the left bank of the Seine River in Paris, the Musée d’Orsay was originally a railway station, erected for the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition to show off France’s first fleet of electric trains.
