New Paris museums
Special to The Los Angeles Times
Musée du Quai Branly
37 Quai Branly. Open 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays, until 10 p.m. Thursdays. Tickets: $11.50. Info: 011-33-1-56-61-70-00, www.quaibranly.fr.Decorative Arts Museum
Along with the new Quai Branly, the Decorative Arts Museum (Musée des Arts Décoratifs) brings a new art experience to Paris. It reopened in September in the 19th century Marsan Wing of the Louvre. A dramatic five-story-high main gallery is surrounded by displays of more than 6,000 items organized chronologically, illustrating the history of France’s decorative arts. The displays start with simple works by anonymous weavers and carpenters, then go on to the furniture and china of royalty, with gilding aplenty and elaborate ornamentation, followed by Industrial Revolution works and modern pieces. The standouts are the period rooms from the 1920s.107 Rue de Rivoli. Open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays to Sundays. Tickets: $10.75. Info: 011-33-1-44-55-57-50, www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr.
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