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Anatole Jakovsky International Naive Art Museum
Over 1000 works of naive art are gathered at the Anatole Jakovsky International Naive Art Museum, inside 19th-century Château Ste-Hélène, 2km west of the centre. Romanian art critic Anatole Jakovsky (1909-83), who moved to southern France in 1932, kick-started the museum by donating his vast collection. Pieces date from the 18th century to the present day. Take bus 8, 10, 11 or 12 from the bus station to the Fabron stop, from where it's a 500m walk, or take bus 34 to the Musée Art Naïf stop.
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Centre National d'Art Contemporain
Sensational temporary photographic and contemporary art exhibitions are displayed at the Centre National d'Art Contemporain, inside 18th-century Villa Arson, 1km north of the town centre. Take bus 36 to the Villa Arson stop, or bus 4, 7 or 26 to the Fanny stop on blvd de Cessole.
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Galerie des Ponchettes
Galerie des Ponchettes, a 19th-century vaulted building which was used as a public lavoir (wash house) in the 1840s, then as a fish market until Matisse persuaded the council to revamp it in 1950.
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Monastère Notre Dame de Cimiez Museum
The Monastère Notre Dame de Cimiez houses a small museum illustrating the everyday lives and activities of its Franciscan monks.
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Musée Archéologique de Nice-Cimiez
Nice's little-spoken but lingering language, Nissart, derives most of its vocab from the Roman city of Cemenelum, founded by Augustus in 14 BC. Its ruins form the focus of the Musée Archéologique de Nice-Cimiez. Both the public baths and amphitheatre - the venue for outdoor concerts during the Nice Jazz festival - can be visited.
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Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain
European and American avant-garde works from the 1950s to the present are the focus of Nice's don't-miss Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain. Highlights among the permanent 2nd- and 3rd-floor exhibits include items wrapped by Christo; a red model-T Ford crunched into a 1.6m-tall block by Marseillais sculptor César; and the mundane objects (rubbish, letters, children's toys) encased in Perspex containers by Nice-born Arman.
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Musee de Paleonthologie Terra Amata
East of the port, this museum displays objects from a site inhabited 400,000 years ago by the predecessors of Homo sapiens .
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Musée des Arts Asiatiques
Ornamental treasures from Cambodia, China, India and Japan are showcased in the striking white-marble Musée des Arts Asiatiques , designed by a Japanese architect, near the airport. Participating in a Sunday afternoon traditional Chinese or Japanese tea ceremony including museum visit; advance reservations essential)is a highlight.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts
Find Nice's Musée des Beaux-Arts in a fantastic cream-and-apricot villa built in 1878 for Ukrainian princess Elisabeth Vassilievna Kotschoubey. Its decorative stucco friezes and six-column rear terrace overlooking luxuriant gardens make it typical of Nice's belle époque .The collection is a mishmash of absolute gems, like Jan Brueghel's Allegory of Water and Allegory of Earth, and yawnsome 18th-century portraits.
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Musée et Site Archéologiques
Behind the Musée Matisse lie the ruins of the Roman city of Cemenelum - the focus of the Musée et Site Archéologiques where you can visit the public baths, amphitheatre and original paved streets, and view relics like ceramics, glass, coins and tools. The Archaeology Museum comes alive when the public baths and the amphitheatre become the venue for outdoor concerts during the Nice Jazz Festival. However, both can be visited any time of year.
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Musée Masséna
Also called Musée Masséna, this museum was closed for renovation until 2007 at time of writing, although the marvellous Italianate neoclassical villa (1898) housing the museum is worth a gander.
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Musée Matisse
The Musée Matisse, 2km north of the centre, houses a splendid assortment of works by Henri Matisse. Its permanent collection is displayed in a red-ochre 17th-century Genoese villa overlooking the olive-tree-studded Parc des Arènes. Temporary exhibitions are hosted in the futuristic basement building.
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Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall
The Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall houses the largest public collection of works by Belarusian painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985), known for his characteristic flying animals, flowers, violinists and kissing couples.The exuberant swathes of colour used by Chagall to illustrate Old Testament themes are set off by the severity of this purpose-built museum.
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Palais Lascaris
Baroque Palais Lascaris was owned by the Lascaris-Ventimiglia family in the 17th century and is a frescoed orgy of Flemish tapestries, faïence and gloomy religious paintings. On the ground floor is an 18th-century pharmacy.
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