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History Museum Attractions In Marseille

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Marseille is the second-largest city of France. The main city of the historical province of Provence, today it is the capital of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. It is located on France's south coast, covering an area of 241 km2 and had a population of 852,516 in 2012. Its metropolitan area, which covers 3,173 km2 is the third-largest in France after Paris and Lyon, with a population of 1,831,500 as of 2010.Known to the ancient Greeks and Romans as Massalia , Marseille was an important European trading centre and remains the main commercial port of the French Republic. Marseille is now France's largest city...
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History Museum Attractions In Marseille

  • 1. Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations Marseille
    The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations is a national museum located in Marseille, France. It was inaugurated on 7 June 2013 as part of Marseille-Provence 2013, a year when Marseille was designated as the European Capital of Culture.
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  • 2. Musee d'Histoire de Marseille Marseille
    The Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille is one of the main museums in the city of Marseille, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It occupies a wing of the Palais Longchamp, and displays a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 16th to 19th centuries.
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  • 3. Musee d'Archeologie Mediterraneenne Marseille
    The MACM, the Mougins Museum of Classical Art is an art museum located in the village of Mougins, in the Alpes-Maritimes region of France. It is 30 minutes from Nice airport and 15 minutes from the centre of Cannes. The MACM opened to the public in June 2011. The museum has won several international awards and has loaned dozens of objects to other museums and university exhibitions all over the world. The museum’s large and diverse collection of antiquities includes Roman, Greek and Egyptian sculpture, vases, coins, and jewellery, and also the world’s largest private collection of ancient arms and armour . These ancient artworks are interspersed with classically inspired paintings, drawings, and sculptures by artists such as Matisse, Chagall, Dufy, Cézanne, Rodin, Dalí, Andy Warhol, ...
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  • 7. Musee de la Faience Marseille
    The Musée de la Faïence de Marseille is a museum in southern Marseille, France, dedicated to faience, a type of pottery. It opened to the public in June 1995 in the Château Pastré at 157, avenue de Montredon 13008 Marseille. It is planned to transfer the faience museum to the Château Borély, which will also hold the planned Museum of Decorative Arts and Fashion, as part of preparations for Marseille becoming the European cultural capital in 2013.The museum is housed in the magnificent nineteenth century building named after its former owner Eugène Pastré . The chateau is at the end of a long avenue in the 120 hectares Campagne Pastré park, owned by the city of Marseille.
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