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my third large museum visit in paris was on my second day there, the musee d'orsay .  i was very excited to see this museum since it did fill in the gaps of the modern art i was missing from the centre pompidou .  i got into this museum as well.  this proved invaluable since i was on a tight time schedule on tuesday.  the pass allowed me to enter a separate line from those purchasing tickets.  the ticket purchase line was easily 20x longer than than the line i was in.  i have never seen a line like it, particularly on a tuesday non-rainy afternoon.   the museum is in an old converted train station and again, is pretty magnificent in and of itself.  one of the centerpieces from within the museum is the large station clock hanging above the front entrance.  the museum has three primary exhibit floors, "zero," "two," and "five."  a little consistency on this would have been nice.  i ended up jumping from five to zero to two.  th...