Musée Paul-Dupuy, Decorative arts museum in Carmes district, Toulouse, France.
The Musée Paul-Dupuy is a decorative arts museum housed in a historic mansion in Toulouse. It displays timepieces, furniture, graphic works, and early cinema devices spanning from medieval times to the early 1900s.
The building began as a 17th-century mansion and was purchased by Paul Dupuy in 1905. It opened as a municipal museum in 1949 after Dupuy bequeathed his collection to the city.
The collections reflect how people designed their homes and valued craftsmanship across different eras. You can see how decorative objects reveal the tastes and daily habits of earlier generations.
The museum is located in the easy-to-find Carmes district with clear signage from nearby streets. The rooms are arranged in a flowing way that makes it simple to explore at your own pace.
The museum contains a dedicated section on pre-cinema history with rare devices used to create moving images before film existed. These early optical instruments show how audiences were entertained long before motion pictures became popular.
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