Opened in 1989, its illustrates "CERENEMUM's", as well as, the Alpes-Maritimes area's life and history with exhibits of ancient pottery, monnies, jewelry, sculptures, engravings, and animated showcases. A must for first visitors ! This museum is close to your french riviera villa rental.

Sumptuous first empire decoration, furniture, oil-paintings, doors, entrance ways, and paneling coming from the "château de Lucien Bonaparte" in govone (Piémont). Also includes religious art, arms, porcelaine, stoneware, european and oriental jewelry, Nice and european original paintings, regional historical artifacts, aristocratic attire, regional furniture and ancient marquetry from local craftsmen.

Emphasis is given to the 1960-70 art movements, the New Realists and Pop Art creators. Its collection includes works from Arman, César, Raysse, Klein, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Christo, Tinguely, Villeglé, Hains, Rotella, Dufrêne, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenbourg, Wesselman, and many others.

This museum, the only one which was built in Europe by Kenzo TANGE, opens to the public on the 17th October 1998. Its architectural conception is symbolic. It gathers ancient collections which are portraying the diversity and richness of the traditions of Asian civilisations.

Donated to Nice by Mr. and Mrs Anatole Jakovsky and open to the public since 1982, this original museum is found in the former summer resort of the parfumer Coty. A collection tracing naive art's world progression starting from the 18th century.

The museum displays its vast collections, wich are going from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries (Italian seicento, french eighteenth century : Van Lou, Natoire , Fragonard) in a magnificient residence, erected in1878 by the princess Kojchoubey. An important panorama of the french nineteenth century is therein given Bastien-Lepage, Bashkeirkeff, Carpeaux, Chéret, Rodin, impressionism and post-impressionism : Boudin, Monet, Vuillard, Van Dongen.

This theatre is aimed at welcoming and offering photographic exhibitions, symposiums and conferences. Five exhibition rooms offer an opportunity to exhibit all
trends, from photojournalism to plastic photo, from "straight photography" to digital picture: portraits, landscapes, reports and applied photography. One can find
theoretical and practical training courses, a documentation centre, a multimedia computer network, a bookshop, a photo-coffee....

Located in a 17th century convent covered with frescos, the museum evokes the Franciscan way of life from the 18th century to modern day. Free entrance to the church (15th-17th century), where visitors can admire documents and works of art, such as, three paintings by Louis Brea, a large gilded wood baroque alter piece with a fallen Jesus and a Seraphic Cross ( 1477 ) located in the square. Recommanded for church lovers.

Composed of four rooms dedicated to the study of birds, fungi, mineralogy, and geology. Use of natural settings and fossils to retrace our planet's history since its origin. An important natural science library is at the disposition of the public. Feel free to ask for permission.

The Matisse Museum a magnificent 17th century Italian villa with distinctive red walls decorated with trompe l'oeil stands on a hill just above the center of Nice in the heart of an olive grove close to the Hotel Regina where Matisse lived. The park and nearby ruins were part of the ancient Roman City of Cemenelum, now known as Cimiez. The museum, modernized and expanded in 1993, now consists of the original 17th century villa and a sleek and modern adjoining structure that is partially underground.

The museum's collection is made up with the works donated by the Matisse himself who lived in Nice from 1917 to 1954; his heirs ; and with works lent by the State. The visitor will discover Matisse's evolution from his early student copies to his mature work.

Located in the heart of a Mediterranean garden , the museum has a permanent exhibition of Chagall's outstanding paintings, his stained-glass windows which decorate the concert hall and a mosaic that Chagall created especially for the building. Also presented are a mixture of Chagall's gouaches, preparatory sketches, engravings, lithographs, art books, as well as, major works acquired or donated to the museum's collection after Chagall's death in 1985.

Old sailors never die-they can always be found in original naval museums like this one, where ancient arms, navigatiion instruments, scale models, boats, engravings, and paintings are displayed in the Bellanda Tower, a historical monument, overlooking the sea.

This prehistoric elephant hunter's camp, discovered in the center of Nice, has been marvelously reconstructed showing the evolution of the excavation with plaster castings and a recreated Acheulian living quarter dating around 400,000 BC.

Home of the Lascaris family (Vintimillia), this Genovan style palace units a magnificent 17th residence with ornaments from the 18th century. The entrance hall is decorated with the Lascaris coat arms, a monumental staircase, grandiose public rooms with fresco cover edarchways, 17th and 18th century furniture, and flemish tapestries. Also found are exhibits of regional art and popular traditions, a magnificent 18th century pharmacy with its original woodwork, and a collection of vases and tripods.

This 13th room manor, a scrupulous reconstruction of a rural priory, is the work of the Reverend Father Alfred Lemerre, a Dominician friar, born in 1868 in Roubaix. It contains regional articles and furniture from the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.

An exceptional presentation of Raoul Dufy's paintings (le Havre 1877-Forcalquier 1953), water colors, designs, engravings, ceramics, tapestries, textile stencil-plates, etc.

An important father and son collection. Alexis Mossa ( 1844-1926 ) was the originateur of Nice's carnaval procession and a remarkable water-color landscape painter. His son, Gustav Adolph (1883-1971 ) continued in his father's steps and invented his own universal symbolism.

Superb 18th century dwelling inserted in a vast architectural strucutre decorated with pebbles. Villa Arson houses an international art research pilot school, resident artists, and a national center for contemporary art. This institution, controlled by the Ministry of Culture, also organizes temporary art exhibitions, conferences, lectures, and publishes catalogs.

Galleries are specialised in the presentation of contemporary works, either
graphic, photographic or painted. A priority is given to the young creation.