Musée des Arts Décoratifs

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  • Address
    39 rue Bouffard, central Bordeaux
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  • Phone
    05 56 00 72 50
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    05 56 81 69 67

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Lonely Planet review

Installed in the magnificent Hôtel de Lalande, built in 1779, the Museum of Decorative Arts contains a fantastic collection of faïence, porcelain, silverwork, glasswork, furniture, weapons and the like, dating mainly from the 18th- and 19th-centuries. The location - an elegant private mansion - renders the visit all the more interesting and informative.

Each room of the mansion has been faithfully restored in the refined decor of the Louis XV and XVI period - many of the pieces on display were collected from the interior of old Bordeaux mansions. The quality of the objects and furnishings on display is testimony to the opulence of late 18th-century Bordeaux - and to its taste for the exotic - evident in the mahogany furniture from Cuba and the Enlightenment-era coffee machines.