The best museums Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur

Found in the Jesuit chapel, the Lapidaire Museum has some collections of Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Gallo-Roman and Egyptian arts from the Calvet museum. It has recently been refurbished to permit the public to see some articles that have been preserved for more than fifty years, while waiting for the creation of a room dedicated to Antiquity. You can discover several chapels dedicated to the Greek collections, including monumental vases and an exceptional collection of funerary steles and votive reliefs, from the excavations undertaken by the Fondation Calvet in Vaison-la-Romaine 1838-1852. The baroque chapel and its stone decor are also worth a visit. A Greek chapel was opened in 2013 with the presentation of Corinthian and Attic vases, classic and Hellenistic terra-cottas from Asia Minor, Egypt, Greece and Magna Graecia. Among the latter, figures a beautiful male head that was part of a statue that dates from the first half of the third century BC.

Dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the international heritage of scents, aromas and perfumes, this unique museum is dedicated to the perfume industry. Here, the history of fragrances, raw materials, manufacturing, industry, innovation, trade, design, uses are revealed... The visit takes place in magnificent historical buildings around a large transparent nave with gardens and terraces. Olfactory workshops are organized.

Spread throughout the city, the museums of Marseille are recognized for the quality and rich heritage of their collections, which represent almost 120,000 works: The Museum of Fine Arts of Palais Longchamp, Château Borély which now hosts the Museum of Decorative Arts, fashion and earthenware, Museum of History and Ancient Port, 26 centuries since the foundation of Massalia by the Phocéens, Memorial of the Marseillaise, in the district of Belsunce, which highlights the history with a lively and breathtaking scenography, wonderful Old Charity, the Roman Docks Museum, the MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art), the Cantini Museum, Museum of Natural History, the Grobet-Labadié Museum. The museums of Marseille, as well as the Natural History Museum and the Cabinet of Coins and Medals, all received the label "Musées de France" in 2003. The Museums Department of the Cultural Action Direction of the City of Marseille manages 12 of the museums that are presented here. To discover and rediscover in 2018!