The Alpes Maritimes General Council commissioned the famous Japanese architect Kenzo Tange

the museum recalls Franciscan life in Nice from the 13th century to today.

This museum is the heir to the first Municipal Museum of Nice featuring loans from the State

This original architecure trace the history of the European and American avant-garde since the early sixties.

The museum displays objects and documents dating back to the Neolithic age, Antiquity and the Middle Ages

The national Marc Chagall museum, was created by the artist's will to bring together in one purpose-built place his most important biblical works : the 17 paintings which make up the Biblical Message.

In a fully renovated Genoese villa set in the olive grove in the Cimiez Gardens, this single-artist museum follows the artistic development of the painter who lived in Nice from 1917 to his death in 1954.

An elephant-hunters’ camp dating back 400,000 years

The museum has been set up in the former residence of perfume creator François COTY