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Auguste Bartholdi. The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World
Culture · Tuesday, October 6 · 09:30 · Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Free
From September 15, 2026 to January 31, 2027, the Musée d’Orsay hosts an exhibition as well as an immersive virtual reality experience dedicated to Auguste Bartholdi, a major figure in 19th-century French sculpture and the author of the iconic work, “The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World.”\n\nDesigned as a gift from France to the United States and originally intended to commemorate the centennial of American independence in 1876, the statue was ultimately inaugurated ten years later, in 1886. In the meantime, Bartholdi and his supporters had to show imagination, audacity and…
