MUSEE D'ARCHEOLOGIE www.antibes-juanlespins.com Pay a visit to the prestigious Antipolis of Antiquity, founded in the 5th century B.C. by the Phoceans and later a major centre of Roman culture. Archaeological collections recall the town's daily life and trading activities.
MUSEE DE LA MARINE www.marineland.fr The finest private marine collection in Europe: 3,000 artworks and models. NB: A ticket to the Marineland park is required for entrance to the museum. Open all year round.
MUSEE PEYNET ET DU DESSIN HUMORISTIQUE www.antibes-juanlespins.com A museum for lovers of romanticism who will be delighted by the world of the famous loving couples drawn by Peynet.
MUSEE DU PATRIMOINE BERLUGAN Located in a historic setting (La Rotonde), the museum's vocation is the preserve the memory of the rich heritage of Beaulieu-sur-Mer accumulated over the centuries : from prehistoric times to the 19th century.
VILLA GRECQUE "KERYLOS" - INSTITUT DE FRANCE FONDATION THEODORE REINACH www.villa-kerylos.comwww.culturespaces.fr In this villa, built in 1902 by Théodore Reinach, everything has been designed to reconstitute the luxury and beauty of a noble home of Ancient Greece while incorporating modern amenities and comfort : frescos, mosaics, reproductions of artworks, ant...
Belvedere
MUSEE DU LAIT Presentation of objects necessary in the process of manufacturing dairy products such as butter and cheese as well as ancient tools of the pastoral life.
Biot
ECOMUSEE DU VERRE www.verreriebiot.com A journey into the world of Glass. The smelting oven, the tools and work of master glass-blowers are all explained with demonstrations. You can also visit an exhibition shop and the "Art du Verre" gallery.
MUSEE D'HISTOIRE ET DE CERAMIQUES BIOTOISES www.biot.fr At the heart of the village, this museum has an important collection of ornamental ceramics made in Biot. 2000 years of Biot's history are also retraced (documents, objects produced in the region...).
Brianconnet
MUSEE DE L'OUTILLAGE ET DES TRADITIONS www.ville-brianconnet.fr Collection of tools recalling the history of rural life in the mountains.
Brigue
MAISON DU PATRIMOINE BRIGASQUE www.patrimoine-labrigue.org "Musée apicole' (exhibition on the history of bees and bee-keeping, the evolution of the bee-hive) and "Musée de l'outillage" (traditionnal objects used in agriculture).
Cagnes-Sur-Mer
MUSEE ETHNOGRAPHIQUE DE L'OLIVIER Reconstruction of a traditional oil mill with the round stone wheels, presses, jars, a collection of oil lamps, tools, objects in olive wood laden with iconography folklore and so on.
MUSEE RENOIR The Domaine des Collettes, and its park enhanced by the olive-trees so beloved by the artist, was the last home of Auguste Renoir. Preserved as is with its original furniture and decoration, the house also features : the painters' 2 studios, 11 origi...
Here, you're invited on a fantastic world tour, from the archaeology of the Mediterranean basin to ethnology and primitive art on all five continents.
MUSEE DE LA MER Archaeology on land and underwater, cell occupied by the Man in the Iron Mask. > Open all year round. Open all year round, except Mondays, Jan. 1st, May 1st, Nov. 1st and 11th, Dec. 25th.
MUSÉE DE L'ENFANCE Colletion over more than 600 dolls, espacially from the time of Napoleon III, the golden age of toys.
Cannet
MUSEE TOBIASSE - CHAPELLE SAINT-SAUVEUR
This chapel decorated by Tobiasse illustrates life, fusional festivities, spirituality of the soul.
Carros
CENTRE INTERNATIONAL D'ART CONTEMPORAIN www.ville-carros.fr The most recently inaugurated art center in the Alpes-Maritimes, housed in the ancient castle of Carros and now a prestigious address for international cultural exchange. It aims to promote younger artists and has played host, since1990, to high-leve...
Coaraze
MUSEE FIGAS www.museefigas.asso.fr Museum devoted to various aspects of the work of Figas, a futurist fantasy painter from Nice, designed and built by the artist.
Croix-Sur-Roudoule
MUSEE DU CUIVRE - MAISON DE LA MINE Slide-show, exhibition of rocks containing copper, locally-made objects in copper, maps, geological tableaux...
Gaude
ECO-MUSEE VIVANT DE PROVENCE
Gilette
MUSEE LOU FEROUIL www.louferouil.com Presentation of four traditional trades : the forge, wine-cellar, carpentry and mechanics.
MUSEE D'ART ET D'HISTOIRE DE PROVENCE www.museesdegrasse.com Housed in an elegant 17th-century mansion, this museum portrays everyday life in eastern Provence since prehistoric times.
MUSEE DE LA MARINE - MEMORIAL AMIRAL DE GRASSE Museum devoted to the life and career of a great sea-farer from Provence: François-Joseph, Paul Count of Grasse ; exhibition of model ships. > Open all year round, except in November. Closed Sundays from October 1st to June 1st and bank holidays fro...
MUSEE INTERNATIONAL DE LA PARFUMERIE www.museesdegrasse.com Devoted to the history of the perfume industry and the evolution of techniques throughout the centuries, this museum reveals the various steps in the creation of a perfume. Your initiation in the world of fragrance continues in a showroom containing ...
MUSEE PROVENCAL DU COSTUME ET DU BIJOU www.fragonard.com Private collection of 18th-19th century Provençal costumes and jewelry.
VILLA MUSEE JEAN-HONORE FRAGONARD www.museesdegrasse.com Works by painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, a native of Grasse.
Guillaumes
MUSEE DES ARTS ET TRADITIONS
Objects, clothes... recalling the arts and traditions of the "canton" of Guillaumes.
Levens
MAISON DU PORTAL One of the first cultural centers in the hill-country behind Nice where one can see original exhibitions of painting, sculpture, patchwork. Worth a visit for Jean-Pierre Augier's sculptures.
Luceram
MUSEE DE LA CRECHE www.luceram.com Presentation of creches of the world and santons (figurines used in Christimas Nativity Scenes).
MUSEE DES VIEUX OUTILS ET DE L'HISTOIRE LOCALE www.luceram.com Tools, objects, photos tracing agricultural life and crafts activities in the village of Lucéram.
MUSEE DE PREHISTOIRE REGIONALE Return to the heart of mankind's history on the Mediterranean shore going back a million years. Collections of objects discovered on archaeological sites in the region.
MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS Fine Arts Museum with collection of paintings from the 13th century to the present day.
SALLE DES MARIAGES JEAN COCTEAU Hall entirely decorated with murals by Jean Cocteau.
HISTORIAL DES PRINCES DE MONACO Wax museum retracing scenes in the history of the Grimaldi dynasty.
MONACO TOP CARS COLLECTION www.mtcc.mc About 100 cars of all ages, meticulously maintained.
MUSEE D'ANTHROPOLOGIE Endowed with an invaluable series of sepultures from the area around the Principality, this museum traces the most significant stages in mankind's history and presents the fauna and industries of successive civilizations (paleolithic, neolithic and B...
MUSEE DES SOUVENIRS NAPOLEONIENS www.palais.mc Collection of over 1,000 objects and documents pertaining to France's First Empire ; 1st floor reserved for an evocation of the history of the Principality.
MUSEE DES TIMBRES ET DES MONNAIES H.S.H. Prince Rainier III's personal collection of stamps and coins.
MUSEE NATIONAL DE MONACO www.monte-carlo.mc/musee-national Collection of antique dolls and automats in historic costume, housed in a villa designed by Charles Garnier.
MUSEE NAVAL www.musee-naval.mc A thrilling history of the navy illustrated by one of the most complete and diversified collections in Europe including 250 models of famous ships. Open all year round.
MUSEE OCEANOGRAPHIQUE DE MONACO www.oceano.mc This museum to the glory of the oceans thrones 80 metres above the sea on a prime location on the Rock of Monaco. All the sciences of the sea are presented in a remarkable collection of marine fauna, naturalised marine creatures and skeletons. When...
Mouans-Sartoux
ESPACE DE L'ART CONCRET www.espacedelartconcret.fr In the grounds of a marvellous 16th-century castle you'll discover this center devoted to Concrete Art in all its forms. Inaugurated in 1990 and based on the Sybil Albers-Barrier Collection.
MUSEE ETHNOGRAPHIQUE REFLET D'UN MONDE RURAL
Museum tracing traditional agricultural activities in Mouans-Sartoux and the region around Grasse.
Mougins
MUSEE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE ANDRE VILLERS www.mougins-coteazur.org The museum displays portraits of the master by the well-known photographers of the time.
MUSEE DE L'AUTOMOBILISTE www.musauto.fr.st One of the finest collections of veteran and racing cars in Europe.
MUSEE MUNICIPAL D'HISTOIRE LOCALE www.mougins-coteazur.org Local history museum with exhibition rooms.
LE PRIEURE DU VIEUX LOGIS Collection of religious art from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, utilitarian objects and furniture (14th to 17th centuries).
MUSEE ARCHEOLOGIQUE DE NICE-CIMIEZ
Archaeological collections dating bak to the Roman city of Cemelenum ; ruins of the thermal spa and baptistry.
MUSEE D'ART MODERNE ET D'ART CONTEMPORAIN www.mamac-nice.org All the various trends in contemporary art are on show here, from the 'sixties and 'seventies, from the New Realists (César, Arman, Martial Raysse) to Fluxus, Pop Art (Warhol, Indiana, Wesselman) and American abstract painters. One exhibition room is...
MUSEE DE PALEONTOLOGIE HUMAINE DE TERRA AMATA www.musee-terra-amata.org Near the grotto of Le Lazaret, the site of Terra-Amata in Nice was one of the first to be inhabited by Man. You'll see an encampment of elephant hunters dating back 400,000 years, a reconstitution of a prehistoric dwelling, mouldings.
MUSEE DEPARTEMENTAL DES ARTS ASIATIQUES www.arts-asiatiques.com Asian Arts Museum devoted to Asian cultures with collections of objects, ancient and modern, precious or commonplace. Series of activities year round complete the exhibitions : tea ceremony, spectacles, The demonstrations of the "Gestures of Asia"......
MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS www.musee-beaux-arts-nice.org Collections of paintings and sculptures (over 600 works) from the 15th to the 20th century.
MUSEE FRANCISCAIN Evoking the life of the Franciscan monks from the 13th to the 18th century : paintings, sculptures, engravings, illuminated manuscripts...
MUSEE INTERNATIONAL D'ART NAÏF ANATOLE JAKOVSKY
Panorama of naive art from the 18th to the 20th century.
MUSEE MATISSE www.musee-matisse-nice.org Contains the artist's personal collection including the most famous canvasses, virtually all of his sculptures, drawings, gouache cut-outs and engravings. The Museum is housed in a 17th C. Genoese villa in the park known as the Arènes de Cimiez.
MUSEE NATIONAL MESSAGE BIBLIQUE MARC CHAGALL www.musee-chagall.fr "Le Message Biblique", comprising 7 large paintings illustrating Chagall's vision of the Old Testament, are on permanent display together with sculptures and the stained-glass windows that adorn the auditorium. Many preparatory sketches for the "Mess...
MUSEUM D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE www.mhnnice.org Collection of nearly 1 million specimens illustrating the wealth of the Mediterranean environment ; also many samples from Africa, Madagascar and South America.
PALAIS LASCARIS Nice's most important aristocratic residence. Transformed into a Museum and restored by the Municipality, it presents visitors with a superb reconstitution of the residence of a local nobleman, complete with impressive stairwell, reception rooms, sta...
VILLA ARSON - CENTRE NATIONAL D'ARTS PLASTIQUES www.villa-arson.org A major center for research and artistic innovation, the Villa Arson is both a center for contemporary art, an artists' residence and a national art school. It organizes many exhibitions for established names as well as promising young artists.
Peille
MUSEE DU TERROIR Exhibition of commonly-used objects and tools from by-gone days.
Pierrefeu
MUSEE HORS DU TEMPS
Works by 40 painters are presented here in a permanent exhibition combining abstract and figurative art on the theme of Genesis : Brayer, Carzou, Folon, Erni, Villemot, Vicari, Moretti...
Puget-Rostang
ECOMUSEE DU PAYS DE LA ROUDOULE www.ecomusee-roudoule.fr Recalling the heritage and local traditions of "la Provence niçoise".
Saint-Etienne-De-Tinée
MUSEE DE L'ECOLE www.auron.fr.st Objects evoking the schools of yesteryear : desks, ink-pots...
MUSEE DES ARTS RELIGIEUX www.auron.fr.st Objects, precious apparel¿ on the theme of religion.
MUSEE DES TRADITIONS STEPHANOISES www.auron.fr.st Recalling life in the old days at Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée.
MUSEE DU LAIT www.auron.fr.st Utensils, photos... everything you ever wanted to know about milk.
Saint-Martin-Vesubie
MUSEE DES TRADITIONS VESUBIENNES www.perso.club-internet.fr/alchemy History and functioning of the old electric turbine ; corn mill (demonstration of grind-stones), objects used in daily life in the 19th century...
FONDATION MAEGHT www.fondation-maeght.comwww.maeght.fr Not to be missed, for both its permanent collection and temporary exhibits. Painters and sculptors participated in its architectural design, creating artworks to complement the building and its gardens : Chagall's mosaic, Braque's stained-glass windo...
MUSEE DE SAINT-PAUL
Municipal museum housed in a medieval residence.
MUSEE D'HISTOIRE LOCALE Retrospective of the highlights in the history of Saint-Paul : wax figures in period costume, archive documents, religious objects, arms...
Sospel
MUSEE DE LA RESISTANCE 40 m underground, a museum devoted to the activities of the French Resistance during World War II.
Tende
MUSEE DEPARTEMENTAL DES MERVEILLES www.museedesmerveilles.com A trip back in time to the origins of civilization, to discover the engavings at Mont-Bégo. This museum boasting the most sophisticated museographic techniques of our time also displays a rich collection of archæological items and reconstitutions of ...
Tourrette-Levens
MUSEE D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE - CHATEAU-MUSEE The loveliest butterflies and insects in the world - slide-show on animals.
Valbonne
MUSEE DE LA CERAMIQUE ET DE LA BARBOTINE Private collections of ceramic objects from 1830 to 2000. Period Massier from 1830 to 1920 . The fifties Kitsch, contemporary from 1970 to 2000 and regional artists.
MUSEE DU PATRIMOINE "LE VIEUX VALBONNE" www.abbyvalb.fr Everyday objects, traditional costumes, farm tools... ; reconstitution of a village in the 19th century.
Valdeblore
MUSEE DU TERROIR www.colmiane.com Local museum devoted to the land : farm machinery, loom (demonstration), reproductions of old trains (models)...
Vallauris
MAISON DE LA PÉTANQUE 300 m2 presenting the highlights of the history of "boules de pétanque".
MUSEE DE LA POTERIE 100 years of pottery history in exhibition space of over 200 m2. From the historic reconstitution of a potter's studio as it existed at the turn of the century, to present-day techniques.
MUSEE MAGNELLI - MUSEE DE LA CERAMIQUE
The Château-Musée de Vallauris (16th-C.) covers two subjects : ceramics and Magnelli. The collection of paintings by Magnelli, a pioneer in abstract art, is the largest in France and was assembled by the artist himself during his lifetime.
MUSEE NATIONAL PICASSO LA GUERRE ET LA PAIX www.musee-picasso-vallauris.fr Housed in a 12th-C. Romanesque chapel, this museum contains two Picasso's famous monumental compositions "War and Peace" (125 m2) representing themes dear to the artist in the period immediately after the War. It was also in Vallauris that Picasso di...
Vence
CHATEAU DE VILLENEUVE - FONDATION EMILE HUGUES www.museedevence.com At the heart of the medieval town, the superb architecture of a castle built by the Lords of Vence now serves as the setting for exhibitions on specific themes within the field of 20th-C. artistic creation. A successful blend of tradition and moderni...
N.A.L.L. ART ASSOCIATION www.nall.org This large property open to the public welcomes artists of all disciplines : painters, sculptors, writers, playwrights, composers, musicians etc. Nall, a very intense artist motivated by his growing acclaim at international level, sees his foundation...
Villefranche-Sur-Mer
CHAPELLE SAINT-PIERRE - CHAPELLE COCTEAU Ancient Romanesque chapel dedicated to Saint Peter, patron-saint of fishermen, entirely restored and decorated by Jean Cocteau.
COLLECTION ROUX www.villefranche-sur-mer.com Collection of almost 300 figurines in polychrome ceramics, representing scenes of daily life in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
MUSEE DES MAQUETTES MARINES Models of French and foreign warships and sailboats past and present. Open all year round.
MUSEE GOETZ BOUMEESTER www.villefranche-sur-mer.com Survey of work by two artists, Christine Boumeester and Henri Goetz, friends of Picasso, Picabia, Miro and Hartung.
MUSEE VOLTI www.villefranche-sur-mer.com Bronzes, beaten copperwork, sanguines, an important collection for both the quantity of works on exhibit and for their museographic staging. Also contains the Goetz-Boumeester Collection.
Villeneuve-Loubet
MUSEE D'HISTOIRE ET D'ART On the 2nd and 3rd floors : original collection tracing the history of the French army throughout the 20th century, from the First World War to the Gulf War.
MUSEE ESCOFFIER DE L'ART CULINAIRE www.fondation-escoffier.org Museum devoted to Auguste Escoffier, "King of Cooks and Cook of Kings", creator, among other things, of the Peach Melba. It also contains extensive documentation on the culinary art, including a collection of 1,500 menus.
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