Paris study week

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The Paris study week takes place towards the end of the Winter Term and provides students with an invaluable opportunity to consolidate what they have learned over the two taught terms of the MA in Decorative Arts and Historic Interiors. Students spend one week in Paris exploring the riches of the collections of decorative arts in the Paris museums such as the Louvre, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the Musée Jacquemart-André and the Musée Carnavalet. They also have the opportunity to visit some of the hidden delights of Paris. Some of the greatest French interiors of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are to be found in banks and embassies and other government buildings not normally accessible to the public. Among those visited in the past have been the former Hôtel de Toulouse (now Banque de France) and the Hôtel de Breteuil (now the German embassy), the Hôtel de Lauzun and the Hôtel Lambert. The Paris study week provides a rare opportunity to visit some of these important private houses. The study week also includes visits to châteaux near Paris, including a tour of some of the lesser-known private rooms at Versailles, and a guided visit to the Grand and Petit Trianons.

Costs

Transport costs on the Métro / RER for the trips while in Paris and the entrance fees to all sites visited are included in the course fees, but students will be expected to pay for their own food and accommodation and for the cost of travel to and from Paris.

Details of the programme may vary from year to year.