Sharing the Maison Waldberg with the Seillans tourist office is this gallery of work by Dorothea Tanning and surrealist Max Ernst, who lived in Seillans from 1964 until his death in 1976. They bequeathed their collection of lithographs and other work to the city.
Tanning-Ernst Collection
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