Palais Longchamp

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  • Address
    blvd Philippon, 4e
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  • Phone
    04 91 62 30 78
  • Transport
    underground rail: Cinq Avenues Longchamp

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Lonely Planet review

The colonnaded Palais de Longchamp, constructed in the 1860s, was designed in part to disguise a château d'eau (water tower) at the terminus of an aqueduct from the River Durance. Its two wings house Marseille's oldest museum, the Musée des Beaux-Arts. Also housed here, the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle is for serious fans of the genre, but its lovely gardens with a children's playground and carousel are a good spot to placate enfants .