Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Decorative arts museum near Retiro Park, Madrid, Spain.
The Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas is a museum of decorative arts in Madrid near Retiro Park, housing over 70,000 objects spread across roughly 60 rooms. The collections include furniture, ceramics, glass, textiles, and metalwork from different periods and regions around the world.
Founded in 1912 as the National Museum of Industrial Arts, it moved to its current home in a 19th-century mansion on Montalbán Street in 1934. The shift from a teaching institution to a collection museum marked an important change in how these crafts were valued and displayed.
The collection reflects how different regions developed their own styles and techniques for making everyday objects, with ceramics from Asia, Spanish textiles, and Persian crafts on display. Visitors encounter the handiwork and traditions of various cultures across different time periods.
The building sits on a quiet street near Retiro Park and is easy to reach on foot from the neighborhood. Plan to spend several hours if you want to explore the different sections and rooms, as the collection is quite extensive.
A complete 18th-century kitchen from Valencia, fully covered in traditional tiles, shows how daily spaces looked in past times. This room reconstruction is among the most detailed and authentic in the entire museum.
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