- This station stands on the ruined Palais d'Orsay (Orsay Palace).
- The station was also built with a hotel. Both were built to blend in with one another seemlessly.
- The land that the station was to be built on was ceded to the Orleans Railroad Company to build a new station in anticipation of the 1900 World Fair. Their Gare d'Austerlitz was in too remote a location to be the main terminal.
- Once a train station, the station had been underutilized since 1939 serving different functions, and at one time faced almost certain destruction. In the late 70's in won historical desginations, and was finally reconstructed as a museum between 1979 and 1986.
- Has a length and width of 173 m and 75 m, length of 188 m including awnings (source: Musée d'Orsay website).
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