In honour of #museumweek, BBC Culture rounds up stunning buildings around the world that house the treasures of civilisation.
Musee d’Orsay, France
Standing on the Left Bank of the Seine, this venerable Paris museum was opened in 1986 in a former Beaux-Arts railway station and hotel. The layout uses its previous incarnation to full effect – galleries cluster around the grand nave and light streams in through its sweeping glass...
