National Art Decorative Museum, Havana. Cuba
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- Calle 17 No. 502 esq. a D, Vedado. , Havana City. Cuba
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- (537) 8320924
- Destination: Havana
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With an excellent taste, the Museum of Decorative Arts exhibits in its spacious rooms valuable works of European and Oriental art dating back to the 18 th to 20 th centuries. Among its collections, you will find very carefully preserved furniture, ceramics, porcelains, paintings, and sculptures as well as works of applied arts.
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National Art Decorative Museum is located in Havana
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Art Decorative
Its building, once the residence of the Countess de Revilla de Camargo, constitutes today an amazing exponent of Cuban architecture during first part of XX century. Its collection is breathtaking: carpets Aubusson, Oriental porcelains, Sèvres, Faenza, Meissen, Wedgewood or Chantilly, catalan glass, Jansen doors, wooden ornaments of Norabuena and Stuart, Tocqué paintings, Nattier, Largilliere and Hubert Robert. You will also be able to admire the fine dining-room decorated in Regency style, a luxurious bath-room, a bed-room decorated out of Chinese varnish and a secretaire once owned by Marie Antoniette. Don’t forget to walk through the delicious garden.
National Museum of Decorative Arts
It houses permanent and temporary exhibitions of the most coloured samples of European and Asian applied arts, ceramics, chinawares, furnitures, paintings and sculptures of the 19th and 20th century. Applied arts. Ceramic. Porcelain. Ancient furnitures. Paintings. Sculptures.
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