They're watched by crowds of people, many recording on mobile phones. Paris' Orsay Museum has thrown open to the public a process that often happens behind closed doors.

Paris' Orsay Museum has thrown open to the public a process that often happens behind closed doors. The cleaning and repairs to “A Burial at Ornans," one of the museum's signature works that ...

As they painstakingly scrape grime off a monumental painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, the restorers do a remarkable job of ignoring their unusual surroundings: they are watched by crowds ...

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