Havana Museum of Decorative Arts

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The Museum of Decorative Arts (Museo de Artes Decorativas), in the Vedado district of Havana, Cuba it's a decoravite arts museum in the former residence of the Maria Luisa Gomez Mena viuda de Cagiga, Countess of Revilla de Camargo, sister of Jose Gomez Mena, the owner of the Manzana de Gomez. It was it was designed in Paris by architects P. Virad and M. Destuque, inspired in French Renaissance and was built between 1924 and 1927 in a neo-classical style.

[edit] Address

Calle 17 #502, between E and D, Vedado, Havana, Cuba

[edit] References

  • Cuba - Eyewitness Travel Guides (Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2004) ISBN: 075660172X
  • Havana (Lonely Planet Publications,2001) ISBN: 1864502290