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Centre de la Vieille Charité
Designed by Marseillais architect Pierre Puget, the arcaded courtyard of the Centre de la Vieille Charité wraps around Provence's most imposing baroque church.
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Musée Cantini
Recessed behind grand gates inside a 17th-century hôtel particulier (private mansion), the Musée Cantini has collections including 17th- and 18th-century Provençal ceramics and landscapes of the surrounding region including André Derain's Pinède, Cassis (1907) and Raoul Dufy's Paysage de l'Estaque (1908).
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Musée d'Art Contemporain
Wild, off-the-wall creations of Marseille-born sculptor César (César Baldaccini; 1921-98) are displayed at the Musée d'Art Contemporain as well as works by Christo, Nice new realists Ben and Klein, and pop artist Andy Warhol.
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Musée d'Histoire de Marseille
A fascinating insight into Marseille's composited cultural heritage, the Musée d'Histoire de Marseille has some extraordinary exhibits such as the remains of a merchant vessel discovered by chance in the Vieux Port in 1974, which plied the surrounding waters back in the early 3rd century AD. To preserve the soaked and decaying wood, it was freeze-dried right where it now sits behind glass.
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Musée de la Marine et de l'Économie
The colonnaded Chamber of Commerce (also known as the Palais de la Bourse), built between 1854 and 1860, houses a Musée de la Marine et de l'Économie. The museum highlights Marseille's economic ties to the sea through a series of paintings, engravings, models and other exhibits.
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Musée de la Mode
Avant-garde fashions take centre stage at the stylish Musée de la Mode, which features thousands of garments and accessories from 1945 onwards, and some striking temporary retrospectives such as 1920s beachwear.
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Musée des Docks Romains
At the Musée des Docks Romains, displays include 1st-century Roman structures; with vast jars that held up to 2000L of wine or oil.
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Musée du Santon
One of Provence's most enduring - and endearing - Christmas traditions is santons (from santoùn in Provençal, meaning 'little saint'). These plaster-moulded, kiln-fired nativity figures between 2.5cm and 15cm high were first created by Marseillais artisan Jean-Louis Lagnel (1764-1822). Santonniers (santon makers) still use his method today.
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Palais Longchamp
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 .
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