Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
Around the corner from the Musée du Louvre at Rue de Rivoli 107 - this monument to the French art de vivre, housed in a 19th-century wing of the Louvre that has been restored to Beaux-Arts splendor, its galleries and period rooms showcasing eight centuries of Gallic taste in interior decoration..
Around the corner from the Musée du Louvre at Rue de Rivoli 107 - this monument to the French art de vivre, housed in a 19th-century wing of the Louvre that has been restored to Beaux-Arts splendor, its galleries and period rooms showcasing eight centuries of Gallic taste in interior decoration.
Hours
Sun
11:00
18:00
Mon
NA
Tue
11:00
18:00
Wed
11:00
18:00
Thu
11:00
21:00
Fri
11:00
18:00
Sat
11:00
18:00
About Musee des Arts Decoratifs
107 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris, France
+33 1 44 55 57 50
Musee des Arts Decoratifs and Nearby Sights on Map
Louvre Museum
Housing one of the world's great museums since 1793, the Louvre Palace offers some dazzling architecture, wide public spaces and the glass pyramid of I M Pei
Jardin des Tuileries
Originally adjoining the now-disappeared royal palace of the Tuileries, these gardens lying immediately west of the Louvre offer a central open space for Parisians and visitors with semi-formal gardens (an outdoor gallery for modern sculpture), various cafés, ice-cream and crépe stalls and a summer fun fair
Palais-Royal
Ordered by Cardinal de Richelieu (1585-1642), King Louis XIIIth's prime Minister in 1629 (completed in 1636); originally called Palais Cardinal; it became Le Palais Royal when Anne d'Autriche, Louis XIIIth's wife, came to live here to get away from the Louvre palace
Colonne Vendôme
The centrepiece of a magnificent 8-sided square first laid out in 1699 to show off an equestrian statue of the Sun King, Louis XIV
Place Vendome
Seine River
The Seine River is the lifeline of Paris
Pont des Arts
Saint-Germain-des-Pres
The oldest church in Paris, founded in the year 542 by King Childebert
La Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Richelieu
The National Library, intended to be the repository of all that is published in France, preserves collections of historic documents of both French and international origin
Musee d'Orsay
Housed in a former Beaux-Arts railway station (completed in 1900 for the Exposition Universelle, later saved from demolition and converted to its present use), the rambling, open-plan museum is home to the works of the great artists of the 19th century (1848-1914) - Impressionists, post-Impressionists, and the rest - that were formerly displayed in the Louvre