Decorative Arts Museum - Paris - Fashion Museum

<body> <h1>Decorative Arts Museum - Paris - Fashion Museum Paris </h1> <p>On the famous street "rue de Rivoli" in the north wing of the Louvre Museum (Musée de Louvre), are 2 museums : Decorative Arts Museum, which is relatively new and the museum of Fashion. </p> <p>The largest of the three museums is the Museum of Decorative Arts. Founded in 1877, this is an enormous museum, except by the standards of the building housing it - the Louvre - of which it takes up the Tuileries end of the north wing. However, the museum is being reorganized and alterations will be going on until 1997.</p> <p><strong>Paris Links - France Links : <a href="http://www.hotels-paris.com" target="_blank">Hotels Paris</a> - <a href="http://www.strasbourg.com" target="_blank">Strasbourg</a> - <a href="http://www.visit-paris.com" target="_blank">Visit Paris</a> - <a href="http://www.paris-tourism.com" target="_blank">Paris Tourism</a> </strong></p> <p>Just next door to the museum of decorative arts is the museum dedicated to Fashion. Created in 1986, the museum occupies 4 floors devoted to what France recognizes to be an art form and an important part of the country's heritage. The first floor shows changing exhibitions of the permenant collection. The upper three floors shows examples the work of famous couturiers. There is also a large collection of costumes going back to the sixteenth century. In the museum, there is a library, a workshop where costumes are restored, and the Institut de la Mode, which proposes design courses. For those interested in the evolution of fashion, the Musee de la Mode et du Costume at the Palais Galliera in the I 6e contains over I00,000 outfits from the eighteenth to the present century.</p> </body>