Free museums in Nice

Musée des Arts Asiatiques de Nice is the Asian Arts Museum of Nice in Parc Phœnix, which houses collections of Asian arts. It was inaugurated in 1981 and was designed by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange. Its collections are from private and public collections, reflecting the important civilizations in

Villa Arson is a national center for contemporary art in Nice in France that contains an art museum, an elite school, a media library and a research institution for contemporary art. The complete area of 20,000 m² includes exhibition space, workshops, student accommodation and gardens.

Musée Franciscain (the Franciscan Museum) is a museum in Nice in France that is devoted to the life of the Franciscans in Nice from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The museum illustrates the spiritual and social message of Saint Francis of Assisi through paintings, sculptures, engravings

Terra Amata is an archeological site on the slopes of Mount Boron in Nice, in France. On the site, which used to be a prehistoric beach, archeaologists discovered tools of the Lower Paleolithic period (around 400,000 BCE) and traces of some of Europe's earliest domestication of fire. The site now li

The Musée national du Sport is a national sports museum in Nice that is housed in the Grand Stadium of the city. The collection of Musée National du Sport contains more than 100,000 pieces that document sports from the 16th century to the present, including items such as sports equipment, paintings,

Galerie des Ponchettes is a gallery that is attached to the MAMAC that is dedicated to contemporary art. The MAMAC conducts an exhibition program of several sections of its collections at the gallery of Ponchettes.

The Galerie de la Marine is a gallery in nice that is dedicated to young emerging artists on the national and international scene of contemporary art. Galerie de la Marine and Villa Arson (also in Nice) are partners for the promotion of young artists graduated from the National School of Art in Nice