BASTION MUSEUM - JEAN COCTEAU
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While working on the decorations for the Wedding Hall, Cocteau noticed an abandoned 17th century fort, "which finished the dike between the port and the promenade du Soleil": the Bastion. The mayor of the time, Francis Palmero, proposed that he turn it into a museum of his works and the artist, charmed by the place, accepted while refuting the term museum: "I will change my works as soon as they look familiar". To respect his thinking, the museum now dedicated to him thus changes the exhibition of his works each year. However, Cocteau was aware that in the autumn of his life the Bastion became a testamentary vocation. He therefore carefully watches every detail of this creation: from the decoration of the eleven loopholes on the first floor to that of the frontispiece, passing through the mosaic of pebbles on the façade representing a lizard, "symbol of Mediterranean laziness". The "Musée du Bastion de Jean Cocteau" was inaugurated in 1966. The original collection contains 102 works, supplemented by other donations and acquisitions. Following the flooding of the Jean Cocteau Museum-Wunderman Collection, the Bastion welcomed a part of the works in this collection: it is an essential stop on the discovery tour of Cocteau's work in Menton.
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