The best museums Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur

The museum is run by passionate these small clay characters, who made it a shop and throughout the year, sell characters nursery for lovers. In a large room, there is an exhibition of figurines come from different countries, including the famous private collection Marcel Carbonel. The expressions, attitudes and costumes are different, for a theme that, does not change him and concerns the Nativity. The entrance is free, you just need to go to the shop, figurines, of course!

The naive art museum settled in the Château Sainte-Hélène de Fabron in 1982, ancient house of the perfumer François Coty. This site owes its existence to the donation of arts critics Anatole and Renée Jakovsky who gave him their name. It shows works unique in the world tracing the history of from the 17th century to nowadays: South America, Haiti, Croatia, Central Europe, Europe… Three themes feature the permanent collections: the city in the countryside; fables and popular tales and the history of naive art. You will find the works, sculptures, posters and drawings of more or less famous artists such as Rabuzin, Bauchant, Party, Ivan and Josip Généralic, Grandma Moses, O'Brady, Haddelsey, Rimbert, Vivin, Séraphine, Lefranc, Vivancos….

In a rampart house, you will find the museum of Arts and Crafts and traditional museum of Prehistory, retrospective of 38,000 years of prehistory tourrettane exposing the heritage found in the caves of Merle and Baume Périgaud dating from the Upper Palaeolithic human remains, ornaments, tools, animal remains....

In the cobbled and vaulted cellars of this beautiful mansion of the 16th century, Hôtel de Brancas, you will discover an amazing collection of fifty bikes, from the velocipede of 1870 to the bike Paris-Beijing 2008, through the historical tandem of the first paid holidays in 1936. In the city that saw the birth of the famous Vélocio (Paul de Vivie, 1853-1930), brilliant inventor and figure of bicycle touring which significantly contributed to the improvement of cycles (detachable hubs, shifting of speed, equiangular frames, ...), Musée Comtadin du Cycle is of course a must-see!

This cannon tower was built in 1634 and reinforced by Vauban, and served as protection in Toulon harbour crossing its fire with those of the Royal tower. Since 1970, the fort became a naval museum with local maritime history, with permanent exhibitions dedicated to the history of the prison in Toulon and overseas, life convicts, plus temporary exhibitions to discover (inquire by phone).