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The Musée des Arts et Métiers (French pronunciation: [myze dez‿aʁ e metje]; English: Museum of Arts and Crafts) is an industrial design museum in Paris that houses the collection of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, which was founded in 1794 as a repository for the preservation of scientific instruments and inventions.
The Viaduc des Arts is a converted train line located in the 12th arrondissement of Paris which is now both a series of workshops for highly skilled artisans and, on the top level, the Promenade Plantée, a linear park. It was formerly the "Viaduc de Bastille," for the trains of the Paris-Bastille-Vincennes line.
The museum collection was founded in 1905 by members of the Union des Arts décoratifs ("Union of Decorative Arts"). The architect was Gaston Redon. It houses and displays furniture, interior design, altarpieces, religious paintings, objets d'arts, tapestries, wallpaper, ceramics and glassware, plus toys from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France; Musée des Arts Décoratifs et du Design, Bordeaux, France; Musée des Arts décoratifs, Strasbourg, France; Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs, Lyon, France; Latvian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga, Latvia; Museum of Decorative Arts, Berlin (Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin), Germany
Another annual art event held in Paris is the Art Paris Art Fair. During 2013, the fair attracted more visitors than in the previous year, when 1500 artists (43% from foreign countries) participated. The fair had 57% of French galleries and 52% new galleries.
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (French pronunciation: [myze daʁ mɔdɛʁn də paʁi], in full the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris) or MAM Paris, is a major municipal museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries, including monumental murals by Raoul Dufy, Gaston Suisse, [1] and Henri Matisse. [2]
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