In order to allow the maintenance of the exhibition spaces and the upkeep of the museum's collections, the exhibition rooms may be closed on Wednesdays.
Affinities are both kinship and neighbourly ties, which is the right term to evoke the relationship between the arts of Islam and the Objets d'art department. Not only have these works circulated between East and West since the Middle Ages, but through their technique or decoration they have also inspired European decorative arts. For more than a century, the arts of Islam were displayed in the Objets d'art department. It is this dialogue between the two collections that the exhibition sets out to revive today, around three cross-cutting themes: light, colour and sculpture.
Conceived as a stroll through the rooms of the Objets d'art department, Affinités.](en_placeholder)