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For
fuller information on the sites below please consult the
Nice Tourist
office web site.
Also for information on
Old Nice and the City Centre
Monuments and Galleries in Nice
Sports and Attractions in Nice
Events in Nice
Parks and Gardens in Nice France
Museums in Nice
ASIAN ARTS MUSEUM
A meeting place for exchange between the Asiatic Arts and
Occidental Culture
MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY (Palais Masséna)
Collections of late Gothic “Primitive” painters from Nice and
Europe, armour from the 15th to the 18th centuries, regional
porcelain and faïence and especially a department reserved for
local painters: watercolours, Napoleonic Empire, Masséna,
Garibaldi...
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY AND MODERN ART
A
major permanent collections tracing the history of the
European and American avant-garde since the early sixties.
FINE ARTS MUSEUM
Vast
collections of paintings from the 17th (Italian in
particular), 18th (Van Loo, Hubert Robert, Fragonard) and 19th
(Romanticism, Realism, Orientalism, Symbolism and
Impressionnism: Degas, Boudin, Dufy, Sisley, etc.) centuries.
Major works by Chéret, Ziem and Van Dongen as well as
sculptures by Carpeaux and Rodin.
FRANCISCAN MUSEUM, CHURCH AND MONASTERY OF CIMIEZ
An
evocation of the life of Franciscan monks in Nice from the
13th to the 18th century, an illustration of the spiritual and
social message of Saint Francis of Assisi through paintings,
sculptures, engravings, illuminated manuscripts, frescoes,
reconstructed chapel and monk’s cell, prayer-books on
parchment...
ANATOLE JAKOVSKY INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
600 paintings, drawings, engravings and sculptures retracing
the history worldwide of Naive Art from the 18th century to
the present. Words by Bauchant, Bombois, Rimbert, Séraphine...
Croatian, Haitian, Brazilian artists... completed by a rich
State collection from the National Museum of Modern Art Centre
Georges Pompidou.
MATISSE MUSEUM
Houses the personal collection of the great Fauvist painter
who lived in Nice from 1917 until his death in 1954.
Works from all periods of his life offer a comprehensive
panorama: from the first paintings made in 1890 to the famous
gouache cutouts, 236 drawings, 218 engravings and the complete
presentation of the books illustrated by the artist.
MARC CHAGALL NATIONAL BIBILICAL MESSAGE MUSEUM
Biblical scenes illustrated in 17 large paintings, sculptures,
stained glass windows, mosaics and tapestries, 205 preparatory
sketches, 39 gouaches (1930), 105 engravings (1956) and 215
lithographs.
ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM OF NICE–CIMIEZ
Founded by Augustus in 14 BC, Cemenelum was, from the Ist to
the 4th century, the capital of the Alpes Maritimae province.
You can visit the amphitheatre, the public baths (3rd century
AD), paved streets and the Palæochristian Episcopal Group (5th
century AD).
TERRA AMATA HUMAN PALEONTOLOGY MUSEUM
Reconstruction of a prehistoric (Acheulean) occupation site,
plaster casts, documents on the site of an elephant hunters’
camp in Nice 400,000 years ago.
PALAIS LASCARIS
Genoan-style Baroque palace built starting in 1648 by the
Lascaris-Ventimiglia family.
CENTRE du PATRIMOINE
(Prieuré du Vieux-Logis)
A late mediaeval interior reconstructed in a 16th-century home
with collections of 14th, 15th and 16th-century objects.
VILLA ARSON
Splendid 18th-century villa, perfectly surrounded by
contemporary architecture of concrete and pebbles. This
privileged site covers 20,000 m_ of terraces and gardens
housing the National Superior Art School and a Contemporary
Art Centre and residence for artists.
THEATRE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE ET DE L'IMAGE
Its
mission is to collect photographs of Nice and its region by
researching ancient documents but also sending photographers
to "report" on the city's human, urban, historic and
industrial heritage
MUSEUM D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE
This was the first museum in Nice as from 1863, the initiative
of J.B. Barla. Today there are close to a million specimens,
from the Mediterranean, Africa or South America. The Natural
History Museum aims to promote these treasures of our heritage
and increase public awareness of environment protection.
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