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Auguste Bartholdi. The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World
Music · Thursday, November 5 · 09:30 · Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Free
From 15 September 2026 to 31 January 2027 the Musée d’Orsay dedicates an exhibition as well as an immersive virtual reality experience to Auguste Bartholdi, a major figure of 19th-century French sculpture and author of emblematic works, as well as to his masterpiece “La Liberté éclairant le monde”. Conceived as a gift from France to the United States and intended initially to commemorate the centennial of American independence in 1876, the statue was finally inaugurated ten years later, in 1886. In the meantime, Bartholdi and his supporters had to show imagination, audacity e…
