Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design

The Decorative Arts and Design Museum is housed in a mansion built between 1775 and 1779 by the Bordeaux architect Etienne Laclotte to advise parliament Pierre Raymond de Lalande. It evokes a rich aristocratic Bordeaux at the end of XVIIIth century. The museum's collections, furniture, port furniture, ceramics, glassware, jewelry, music and measurement instruments, miniatures, tableware or intimate objects are an example of French decorative arts, particularly Bordeaux, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and a witness to the history of Bordeaux, the Enlightenment city and largest trading port in the eighteenth century. In 2013, Constance Rubini, then appointed to the management of the museum, asked the High Council of Museums of France to change the name of the museum "museum of decorative arts and design" to make visible the will of the institution to become an important venue for the design culture in France. Backed by numerous partners, the museum developed a programming dialogue making decorative arts and design, both areas still too little known in France he wants to strengthen the recovery, diffusion and culture.

The museum regularly organizes temporary exhibitions: Andrea Branzi, Martine Bedin, Ruedi Baur, Felipe Ribon, etc.

Hours: daily from 11:00 to 18:00, except Tuesdays and holidays.

Prices : • Permanent collections: € 4 (full) and 2 € (reduced) • Temporary exhibitions: € 5 (full) and € 2.50 (reduced) Free under certain conditions