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The 19th-century Villa Les Palmiers, also known as the Palais du Marbre, is the highlight of West Nice. As I outline in Nice Uncovered, the history of this magnificent palace is fascinating. In its golden age, the palace once welcomed Napoleon III and his wife. The palace garden (above) is a haven of peace with classical sculpture, shady lanes and reflecting pools. 

The interior of the residence is now devoted to the Municipale Archives and is normally closed to the public but on the recent Heritage Days weekend, all the downstairs rooms were opened to visitors. Even though I had spent some time in the Archives reading room researching my book, all the other rooms remained off-limits. I was amazed at what lay beyond my reading room! The wrought iron staircase, frescoes, multicolored marble and woodwork were outstanding.

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And check out the old elevator!

So the garden is always open and now you can take a free guided tour of the interior two Fridays a month through February. See the schedule here. You will need to call and reserve at 04 93 86 77 44. It’s worth it!

Villa Les Palmiers

The Heritage Days are here again! Les Journées du Patrimoine is the highlight of September for history, archaeology, art and museum buffs. Taking place next weekend, September 21-22, it’s a time to celebrate Nice’s varied culture. Nearly all museums are free, some with special guided tours (in French of cours) and exhibits. In Nice Uncovered: Walks Through the Secret Heart of a Historic City I discuss several important landmarks that are infrequently open such as the Villa Les Palmiers, the Holy Cross Chapel of the White Penitents, the Hotel de Ville, Palais de l’Agriculture, La Semeuse and the Chateau Valrose. If you haven’t paid a visit, now’s the time.

In other neighborhoods, highlights include the Victorine Studios which was once France’s “little Hollywood”, a must-stop for cinephiles and the Observatory with great views over the coast. I’m unfamiliar with the Trotabas Campus of the University of Nice Cote d’Azur but I’m looking forward to checking out Chagall’s masterpiece Odysseus. The Villa Dreamland also sounds like an exciting discovery.

Make reservations now! Places are limited.

Archives Nice Côte d’Azur/Villa Les Palmiers

Fabron site Palais de Marbre
9, avenue de Fabron
04 93 86 77 44 – archives@ville-nice.fr
archives.nicecotedazur.org
Tramway line 2 (Fabron station)
Free visits

Ground floor lounges. Model and exhibition retracing the history of the house, from the 19th century to the present day.

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Guided tours

  • Saturday and Sunday at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m. and 5 p.m.

Association of Malounat

9, rue du Malonat
06 78 25 04 18
elisabeth.bondanelli1@gmail.com

Malonat, what a story

Guided tours

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Guided tours ending with a skit in Nissart Visit of the rue du Malonat, known since the Middle Ages. Its history is rich, come and discover it…


Bookbinding workshops

5, rue Desboutin

Guided tours

  • Saturday and Sunday at 9:45 a.m., 11 a.m., 1:45 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4:15 p.m.

Discover an artistic craft: visits to the workshop, demonstrations and explanations of the stages of making a traditional leather binding

By reservation: vah.nice.fr
Duration: 1 hour – Accompanied children, without stroller.


Romain Gary Heritage Library

Encounter Visits

21 bis, boulevard Dubouchage Tram line 2 Durandy stop
bmvr.nice.fr

Art on the water

Encounter

  • Friday September 20 at 4 p.m.

Meeting with Silvana Sideri, graduate in Art History – Duration: 1 hour

Throughout the centuries, water has inspired a multitude of artists, each bringing their unique vision and interpretation of this vital element. Whether representing beauty, power, serenity or transformation, water in all its forms continues to be an essential muse in the art world.

Experience a real journey through the frescoes of Roman and Renaissance art (from the Roman mosaic of Pompeii to Botticelli), impressionist artists but also modern and contemporary art with artists such as Olafur Eliasson who invite you to reflect on the presence and impact of water in our environment.

Discovery of exceptional documents

Guided tours

  • Saturday at 10:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Guided tours Presentation of heritage documents, from old books to contemporary bibliophily and also belonging to heritage sound collections.

Duration: 1 hour
By reservation: 
bmvr.nice.fr


Raoul Mille Library

33, avenue Malausséna
bmvr.nice.fr

At the hook

Free visits

  • Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

An eclectic display that illustrates the diversity of marine resources, inspiring objects, engravings, plans, books, photographs and other wonders… A whole itinerary chosen from the reserves of the Romain Gary heritage library and enriched with historical watercolors from the Natural History Museum of Nice, reproduced for the occasion.
In partnership with the Romain Gary heritage library and the Natural History Museum of Nice

Guided tour

  • Saturday at 10am

Guided tour of the exhibition with Olivier Gerriet, director of the Natural History Museum
Duration: 30 min

The factory: my marine heritage, tomorrow

  • Saturday at 2:30 p.m.

Written expression and artistic practice workshop
For teenagers and adults Duration: 1h30
Subject to availability


Henri Bosco University Library

Visits

100, boulevard Édouard-Herriot – Carlone Campus – Côte d’Azur University
04 89 15 14 00
bu.univ-cotedazur.fr

Guided tours of literary and Asian archive collections

  • Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Travel back in time at the university library, which offers guided tours of its remarkable collection on Asia and French colonial history (ASEMI funds), including 6,000 old photographs covering the period 1860-1954; and the funds of writers who lived in Nice, in particular Henri Bosco, Provençal and Niçois, but also Moroccan… Games and tastings will punctuate your visits! Free visit of the exhibition Photographing China also possible

Book
In case of cancellation: bu-lettres@univ-cotedazur.fr or 04 89 15 14 00

Meet 15 minutes in advance in front of the entrance to the Henri Bosco library of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Campus Carlone, avenue Edouard Herriot, with proof of identity.


Sea and mountain discovery center / Nautical Eagle Base

Nautical base – 50, boulevard Franck-Pilatte
04 93 55 33 33   
info@cdmm.fr / 
mermontagne.org

Visit to the Vincent Fossat Regard sous la Mer room

  • Saturday from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

A dive to discover the underwater riches of the Mediterranean without getting wet!
The Regard sous la mer space is one of the 5 regional pilot sites for promoting the natural and cultural underwater heritage of the South Region and offers you a multi-sensory experience:

  • a touch terminal on regional heritage

  • an immersion with the sounds of the sea

  • an exhibition on Nice’s aquatic heritage

  • a virtual reality wreck dive (for ages 12 and up)

     


Heritage Center – The Senate

14, rue Jules-Gilly

The 36 views of Bald Mont Chauve – JÀNLUC SAUVAIGO

Free visits

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Between 2004 and 2010, Jànluc Sauvaigo illustrated a series of sketches from the “popular tale of Nice”, with Mont Chauve as a setting, and thus Les 36 vues du mont Chauve were born. The first card was initially inspired by the Japanese painter Hiroshige, for the others, Jànluc Sauvaigo called upon Hokusai and his famous Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji. The author would say “I wanted to celebrate in my own way a magical place in the country. And in Nice, Mont Chauve was an obvious choice. It can be seen from the Paillon and Var basins, almost everywhere. […] The series began at the end of the 19th century and continued for fifty years, until around 1925.”  


Chapel of Notre Dame de Bon Voyage

Visits

270, route de Turin
06 64 80 06 16
comte-de-nice@orange.fr / 
comtedenice.fr

Free or guided tours

  • Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Located on the strategic “Salt Route”, the Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Voyage chapel, a small chapel with a symbolic vocation, allowed travelers and road professionals to ask for protection when leaving Nice or to thank for having had a “good trip” when arriving in Nice.


Holy Cross Chapel of the White Penitents

1, rue Saint-Joseph
04 93 85 43 45 / 07 81 09 97 62
pénitents.blancs@wanadoo.fr

Free or guided tours

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.


Jewish cemetery of the castle: place of remembrance and memory

Allée François-Aragon, Château hill
abihssiraserge@yahoo.fr or 06 20 63 34 90

  • Sunday at 10am

In 1783, the Jewish cemetery was transferred to the historic site of the old citadel of Nice. This place of remembrance is also a memorial space with a cenotaph that pays tribute to the Jews arrested in Nice during the Second World War and victims of deportation. Visits organized by the ACIN (Association cultuelle Israélite de Nice).


Nice Nautical Club

50, boulevard Franck-Pilatte
cnnice.fr

Commented discoveries

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Nice Nautical Club opens its doors to help you discover a 140-year history. Promoter of nautical disciplines, it is a living heir to the activities that developed with the arrival of vacationers in Nice.


Consulate General of Italy

72, boulevard Gambetta
connizz.mail@esteri.it or 04 92 14 40 90
consnizza.esteri.it

Guided tours


The buildings of the Consulate General of Italy in Nice between 19th century historicism and new architectural trends of the 20th century.

  • Saturday and Sunday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. FULL

The Consulate General of Italy in Nice is made up of two buildings: the 19th-century Villa Daïla and the 1930s Casa degli Italiani. This will be followed by an aperitif surrounded by images of contemporary dance by photographer Raffaella Persilia and outdoor works by sculptor Serenella Sossi.
Reservations required: segreteria.nizza@esteri.it


Archaeological Crypt

Jacques-Toja Square

Guided tours

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. FULL

Last departures at 12:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Departure: every 30 minutes
Prepare to enter an underground world where each stone, each pit tells the story of a centuries-old city. Let yourself be told about Nice!
Flat shoes recommended.
By reservation: 04 92 00 41 90 or 
vah.nice.fr


Holy Trinity Church

11, rue de la Buffa
www.holytrinitynice.org
09 53 19 69 32
holytrinitynice.info@gmail.com

Free visits

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (service on Sunday at 11 a.m.)


Saint Nicholas and Saint Alexandra Orthodox Church

6, rue Longchamp

Free visits

  • Saturday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Inaugurated in 1860, the church on Rue Longchamp is the oldest church in the Russian tradition in Nice. The iconostasis brought back by boat from Saint Petersburg is a masterpiece.


Saint Bartholomew’s Church

11, montée Claire-Virenque (meet on the forecourt of the church)

Guided tour

  • Saturday at 2 p.m.

Visit of the cloister, the church, the cemetery and the estate of the Counts of Cessole (nowadays the Bishopric and the House of the Environment).
By reservation: 06 15 05 87 48

Guided tour

  • Sunday at 10am

By reservation: 06 15 05 87 48
Visit of the cloister, the church and the cemetery

Concert vocal ensemble Hildegarde

  • Sunday at 3:30 p.m.

For the benefit of the restoration of the church organ


Fort of Mont-Alban

Mont-Alban Fort Trail
Meet in front of the fort entrance
Bus no. 33, direction Mont Boron, stop “Chemin du fort” then 5 min walk
Not accessible to people with reduced mobility. Children under the responsibility of an adult.

Guided tours

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Last departures at 12:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Departure: every 30 min
One of the last witnesses of Nice’s military past.
By reservation: 04 92 00 41 90 or 
vah.nice.fr


Urban planning and architecture forum

Visits89, route de Turin
04 97 13 31 51

(Re)discovering slaughterhouses

Architecture tour

  • Saturday at 11am

The former slaughterhouses of Nice were the testimony of a singular industrial architecture, mobilizing the most avant-garde technologies in their design as in their operation. With the contemporary cultures pole of the 109, this place of social memory still alive is projected into a new existence as a multidisciplinary third place.
Duration: 1h
By reservation: forum@ville-nice.fr

CALIFORNIA D’AZUR, territory of the same

In architecture, in urban forms or in landscapes, there is a sense of déjà vu between California and the Côte d’Azur.
In these two places, reality and fiction have so mutually nourished each other in half a century of formulating modernity that the exhibition navigates, to provide the keys, in a conglomerate of real and mental images as an architectural fact.
Articulated around a temporal and spatial frieze constructed as a mirror between the West Coast and the Riviera, it highlights contemporary issues that speak to everyone (housing, urban forms, landscape, mobility, “change of scenery”, lifestyles, etc.), but in a way that not everyone will have thought of.

Free visits

  • Saturday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Guided tour

  • Saturday at 2 p.m.

Duration: 45 min
By reservation: forum@ville-nice.fr


Great Synagogue of Nice

7, rue Gustave-Deloye
06 16 95 68 44

Open house

  • Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Presented by European Days of Jewish Culture in partnership with the Consistory of Nice

Goldberg Trio Concert

  • Sunday at 8:15 p.m.

With Liza Kerob, Federico Hood, Thierry Amadi, all three soloists of the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Works by Haydn, Mozart, Dohnanyi
Presented by European Days of Jewish Culture in partnership with the Consistory of Nice


Hotel de Ville (City Hall)

5, Town Hall Street

Guided tours

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Departure: every 30 min
From a seminary to a prison and then a hospital that became a town hall in 1868, this 18th century building has constantly been transformed. What decor does it offer today?


Prehistory Laboratory of the Côte d’Azur

15, boulevard Maurice-Maeterlinck
09 83 41 91 01

Free visits

  • Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

The cultural evolution of man

Presentation of the major stages based on casts of fossil Hominid skulls and prehistoric tools, from Sahelanthropus tchadensis, 7 million years ago, to modern Man.

The evolution of paleoenvironments, paleoclimates and paleobiodiversity

Presentation from casts of bones of Quaternary fauna. Throughout the Quaternary period, the climate evolved with cycles of 100,000 years, comprising cold periods of about 80,000 years followed by warm or temperate periods of about 20,000 years.

Lower Paleolithic sites in Nice

Presentation of the prehistoric sites of the Lower Paleolithic discovered in Nice: the open-air site of Terra Amata, the Lazaret cave and the Vallonet.


La Mouette- The pointus of Nice

Entrecasteaux Quay
Poinus slipway – Panne M

Presentation and history of the pointus and the port of Nice

  • Saturday and Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Workshops

  • Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Introductions to repair and caulking work during demonstrations at our “petite folie” pointed school.
Knotting and rigging workshop by Patrick Moreau.
Demonstration and introduction to the art of pottery by Sandra Banctel, Terracotta workshop.

Pointu boat trip

  • Saturday and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Boarding at the “Passagin” pontoon, Entrecasteaux quay side

Blessing of works and pointus

  • Sunday at 12 noon

Exhibitions

  • Saturday and Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Jack Métal 06, works on the theme of the sea
Jean Octobon, monumental works
Exhibition of photos on the theme of the sea

Free visits

  • Saturday and Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Works by Roland Bénaroche and M. Gamba
Live painting on a pointu by the artist Laurent Bosio on an anecdote of one of our dear departed


L’Artistique – Arts and Culture Center & Ferrero Space

27, boulevard Dubouchage
Tel: 04 97 13 47 70
lartistique@ville-nice.fr
http://www.nice.fr/fr/culture/musees-et-galeries/l-artistique

Jean Mas in Shadow and Cube

Free visits

  • Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Visits / meetings with the artist

  • Saturday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

L’Artistique is offering, alongside a new hanging of its permanent collection, a temporary exhibition devoted to “Ombres” and “Cubage de l’École de Nice”, two series of works by Jean Mas.
Exhibition presented from September 3, 2024 to January 4, 2025.


La Semeuse – La Providence Cultural Centerisits

8 bis, rue Saint-Augustin
La Semeuse
04 93 80 34 12
providence@lasemeuse.asso.fr
lasemeuse.asso.fr

Guided tour

  • Saturday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Former chapel of Providence built by the Visitandine order in 1669.
Demonstration by Catherine Hyvert, on the 18th century organ designed by the Concone Brothers and listed as a historic monument.


Le 109


89, route de Turin
04 97 13 32 56
le109.nice.fr

The Satellite Image

  • Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Free tours of the photography exhibition


Matisse Museum

164, avenue des Arènes de Cimiez
04 93 81 08 08 – 
musee-matisse-nice.org

Miró/Matisse. Beyond Images

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

From June 28 to September 29, 2024, the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona and the Musée Matisse in Nice are joining forces to organize an exhibition dedicated to the relationship between the works of Henri Matisse and Joan Miró. MiróMatisse. Beyond Images reveals the deep, lasting and constructive ties that the two artists had, as well as their conceptions of art. The exhibition aims to go “beyond images” by going beyond the clichés about Matisse, painter of the “joie de vivre”, and Miró, inventor of monsters, while showing that they based their creation on a critique of the tradition of images in the West.
As part of this exhibition, the Musée Matisse Nice will offer specific events and activities in connection with the European Heritage Days.


Charles Nègre Museum of Photography

1, place Pierre-Gautier
04 97 13 42 20
musee.photographie.nice.fr
@museephotonice

Bettina Rheims, Why have you forsaken me?

Free visits

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Guided tours

  • Saturday and Sunday at 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.

The Musée de la Photographie Charles Nègre is presenting, for the first time in Nice, an exhibition dedicated to Bettina Rheims Why did you abandon me? Never has a photographer gone so far in the research work around femininity, never has she questioned it so much, magnified it, put it in danger so much. A brilliant portraitist, Bettina Rheims has the art of revealing the personality and emotions of those she photographs and delivers suggestive, disturbing and touching images.


Archaeology Museum of Nice / Cimiez

160, avenue des Arènes de Cimiez
04 93 81 59 57
musee.archeologie@ville-nice.fr
musee-archeologie-nice.org

Cemenelum, a town on the via Julia Augusta

Take a free visit to the archaeological site and the museum allowing you to take the measure of the networks and routes in Roman Antiquity.

Free visits

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Guided tours

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Walk in Cemenelum

Guided tours

  • Saturday and Sunday from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Come and discover with your family (from 6 years old) the remains of the ancient city of Cemenelum as well as the objects discovered on the site and preserved in the museum.

From gesture to flame

Fire lighting techniques from the origins to the present day.

Free visits

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The history of fire production is as long as that of Man. Through a retrospective of techniques, this exhibition covers all the ways of lighting a fire from traditional methods to the most modern and original techniques.

Visit / demonstration of the exhibition From gesture to flame

  • Saturday and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Come and discover fire lighting techniques from the origins to the present day! Visit the exhibition and fire lighting workshop.

Tell me, Roman, how did the Romans do it?

Projection

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Broadcast of the series of short films Dis-Romain, comment fait les Romains? produced by the museum team, in collaboration with the Casadoc’ association and Marie Lamia.


Terra Amata Prehistory Museum

25, boulevard Carnot
04 93 55 59 93  
musee.terra.amata@ville-nice.fr
musee-terra-amata.org

Free visits

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The Terra Amata site, a prehistory of networks

Guided tours

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The Terra Amata Prehistory Museum offers you a special visit to take a leap back in time 400,000 years!

Received ideas about prehistory

Projection

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Broadcast of the series of short films Received Ideas of Prehistory produced by filmmaker Marie Lamia.

Tools, between art and science, François Mauplot exhibition

Free visits

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

This exhibition is an opportunity for young and old to discover the tools of Terra Amata, between art and science, through the eyes of photographer François Mauplot.

Guided tours

  • Saturday and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Guided tour of the Tools exhibition by its designer, photographer François Mauplot. An encounter between arts and sciences.


Jules Chéret Museum of Fine Arts

33, avenue des Baumettes
04 92 15 28 28
musee.beaux-arts@ville-nice.fr
musee-beaux-arts-nice.org

Berthe Morisot in Nice, impressionist stopovers

Free visits

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Berthe Morisot, the first female Impressionist, stayed in Nice twice between 1881 and 1889. Her creations from Nice, now scattered around the world, are brought together for the first time at the Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret.
Masterfully celebrating 150 years of Impressionism, this exhibition is produced in partnership with the Musée d’Orsay and the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa.

Guided tours of the exhibition

  • Saturday at 11am and 1:30pm in French, 3pm in English, Sunday at 3pm in French

By reservation, online ticketing

Restitution of the workshop “Reflections of the port”

Free visit

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

As part of the Berthe Morisot exhibition in Nice, impressionist stopovers, the Museum of Fine Arts, in collaboration with the Association Amicale des Bateliers & Plaisanciers du port de Nice, La Mouette and a professional photographer, offered a photographic creation workshop in the port of Nice.
Discover at the museum, a selection of these photographs taken in the pointus niçois by the participants.

Tasting tours “One bite, one work!”

  • Saturday at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., Sunday at 12 p.m. and 1 p.m.

Combining the pleasure of the eye and the taste, of the work and the palate, this is the sensory visit that the Museum of Fine Arts offers you as part of the Berthe Morisot exhibition in Nice, impressionist stopovers. Chefs Daniele and Diane Mundo from the L’Ardoise restaurant have imagined a taste experience inspired by the works of Berthe Morisot.
Duration: 30 min
By reservation, 
online ticketing


Natural History Museum

60, boulevard Risso
04 97 13 46 96
www.nice.fr/fr/culture/musees-et-galeries/museum-d-histoire-naturelle    

Behind the scenes at the Museum: the specimen

Guided tours

  • Saturday and Sunday at 10am and 11am

Trace the journey of a specimen, from its acquisition to its publication, via the taxidermy and genetics laboratory, during this behind-the-scenes tour of the Museum.
Duration: 45 min.
Reservation required: paul.thoisy@ville-nice.fr

A short history of biodiversity: when LEGO® gets involved!

Free visit

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Guided tours

  • Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.

The Natural History Museum of Nice opens its doors to Lego® minifigures. One brick after another, they tell us about the richness and fragility of our biodiversity.
Duration: 45 min
By reservation: paul.thoisy@ville-nice.fr


Marc Chagall National Museum

36, avenue du Docteur-Ménard
04 93 59 87 20
musee-chagall.fr

Permanent collections

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Free tours, guided tours and creative workshops
Full program 
musee-chagall.fr


National Sports Museum

6, allée Camille-Muffat, Allianz Riviera stadium
04 89 22 44 00
museedusport.fr

Permanent exhibition

Free visits

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Discover the new permanent course and enjoy new features presenting the benefits of sport. More than ever, emotion and the history of sport are combined for memories to share with the family.

Workshops to share with the family

Outdoor entertainment

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The area around the museum comes alive! Enjoy the many demonstrations and sports initiations on offer!

Visits to the Allianz Riviera (subject to availability)

The Girls of the Games  

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The National Sports Museum invites you to discover the exhibition Les Elles des Jeux, which offers you the opportunity to measure the spectacular path taken in more than 130 years, from the virtual exclusion of women from the Olympic Games to the fight for parity. A journey long bordered by prejudices and prohibitions but fortunately strewn with great memorable firsts.


Côte d’Azur Observatory

96, boulevard de l’Observatoire
Center for Research in Planetary and Universe Sciences

Heritage walks

  • Saturday and Sunday

Discovery of the historic site of the Côte d’Azur Observatory, a research center in Planetary and Universe Sciences, on the Mont-Gros hill.
Opening hours and reservations required on the website www.oca.eu


Palais de l’Agriculture

113, Promenade des Anglais
04 93 88 58 44
scah.nice1@gmail.com

Guided tours

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Built in 1901, this Belle Époque palace is home to the oldest association in Nice. Created on June 14, 1860, the first day the County of Nice was annexed to France, the Société Centrale d’Agriculture, d’Horticulture et d’Acclimatation de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes has continuously trained farmers and “acclimatizers” in the department. Since 1945, the SCAH has been training amateurs. Restored in 2012, the palace will allow the public to discover its rooms, library, frescoes, architecture and activities. The Société Centrale d’Agriculture et d’Horticulture de Nice will also hold its open doors, in order to publicize the activities of the association.
No reservation required


Lascaris Palace
 

15, rue Droite
04 93 62 72 40

Free visits

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Discovery tour

  • Saturday and Sunday at 10am and 11am

Discovery of this ancient palace, the only testimony of this magnitude of civil baroque in Nice with David Assas-Silveri, responsible for cultural diffusion and mediation.
Duration: 50 min
By reservation

Discovering the conservation of works

Discovery workshop (from 8 years old)

  • Saturday and Sunday at 10am and 11am

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, come and discover with Yuna Thébaut, in charge of the collections of the Palais Lascaris, the professions and know-how related to the preventive conservation of objects. In the palace’s conservation workshop, you will discover the gestures, techniques and tools used such as those for fighting insects or even basing objects.
Duration: 45 min
By reservation

Aquela mar – This sea – Maurice Maubert

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.    

Maubert offers an opportunity to reconnect with our common heritage: the sea.
This exhibition is divided into three parts to explore this artistic adventure. It presents paintings, installations and a set of works on the theme of “Santa Manza”, a visual and sound storyboard composed of ink portraits, texts and paintings. Also discover 12 volume scenes entitled “Memory and maritime curiosity”.

The Baroque Centuries by Jean-Loup Fontana

  • Saturday at 3:30 p.m.

Third part of the cycle with a conference entitled Living environment.
Duration: 1h30
Grand salon, subject to availability
Reservation

Charlotte Marchandises Concert

  • Sunday at 2 p.m.

Duration: 1h30
Large lounge, subject to availability
Reservation


Victorine Studios

6, avenue Edouard-Grinda

Guided tours

  • Saturday at 11am, 2pm and 4pm FULL

Discovery of the studios which commemorate more than 100 years of emblematic filming…
Duration: 1 hour
By reservation: contact@studios-victorine.com


Haliotis sewage treatment plant

Visits333, Promenade des Anglais
04 93 21 11 61
haliotis2.fr

Water house

Free visits

  • Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.  FULL

Historical evocation in partnership with the Archives Nice Côte d’Azur.
Explanatory panels of the future project, model and screening of a film.

Guided tours

  • Saturday at 9am, 10:30am, 12pm, 1:30pm, 3pm and 4:30pm  FULL

The EAU d’AZUR Authority invites you to come and discover the current and future Haliotis wastewater treatment plant, which will become one of the Metropolis’ flagship projects.
After a presentation of the future project, which is resolutely focused on preserving the environment, you will be invited to take a guided tour of the site to better understand how it works and the phasing of the planned work. An exhibition will also allow you to discover the history of wastewater treatment in Nice, as well as the project to create the Marine Protected Area.
Duration: 1h30
By reservation: 
vah.nice.fr
ID required as well as closed shoes


Michelet and Mikve Benkemoun Synagogue

Visits22, rue Michelet
07 56 97 08 18

Guided tours

  • Sunday at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Ritual baths for women and men and ritual baths for utensils.
Presented by European Days of Jewish Culture in partnership with the Consistory of Nice


Terraces of the Ponchettes

Staircase at the corner of Quai des États-Unis / Rue Raoul-Bosio

Crossed horizons, gestures and vacations

Guided dance tours

  • Saturday at 2pm and 4pm, Sunday at 10am and 2pm  FULL

The MAMAC and the City of Art and History department offer a joint tour from the heights of the Ponchettes terraces. Facing the horizon, this popular holiday resort has been above all a unique place of contemplation since the 18th century.  
The Ponchettes terraces immerse the visitor facing the sea and provide a glimpse of artistic imaginations. The sea and its reveries become a field of artistic experimentation, an open-air workshop where artists remake the world.
At the crossroads of these discoveries, the tours are punctuated by dance performances by the Sauf le Dimanche dance company.

By reservation 04 92 00 41 90 or www.vah.nice.fr
Appropriate clothing and flat shoes required.
MAMAC is preparing for the future. It is closed for renovations but its programming continues outside the walls! To follow us: https://www.mamac-nice.org/


Francis Gag Theater

4, rue de la Croix
04 92 00 78 50
theatre.fgag@ville-nice.fr

Musical show

  • Saturday at 8 p.m. FULL

Termal, the aguascalentense folk dance group by Jorge Campos Espino
& El Mariachi Mi Nombre es México by Martha Martínez and Alberto Gaytán
With its joyful music and traditional costumes, the Mariachi has conquered hearts around the world. Registered on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, it is one of the emblems of Mexican culture and its heritage. It will cross the ocean to transmit its good vibrations to the audience of the Francis-Gag theater, an ultra festive connection in perspective!
In partnership with the Language, Culture and Tradition department of Nice

Free, invitations to be collected online: http://theatre-francis-gag.org/


National Theatre of Nice

Franciscan Hall
4-6, Place Saint-François
tnn.fr

Guided tours

  • Saturday at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4 p.m.

By reservation: 04 93 13 19 00 or at the theater reception (Monday to Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.)
Limited places. Minors accompanied by an adult.
Meet 15 minutes before the time at the Aigle d’or.
Duration: 1h15
Come and visit behind the scenes and behind the scenes of the Théâtre National de Nice in the former Franciscan convent dating from the 13th century… A leap of 800 years of history! The oldest known building still standing in Old Nice, this place, which has just opened to the public, is a true jewel of Nice’s heritage. Tours provided by the TNN public relations team and a guide-lecturer from the City of Art and History department.


TILT (Third place for fun and technical innovation)

105, boulevard de l’Ariane
https://lespetitsdebrouillardspaca.org/lassociation/

Digging the Riana: Exhibition, scientific animation

  • Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.  

Digging the Riana captures past and contemporary traces of water in the Ariane district: a palimpsest of streams and rivulets, indicator trees, a few pipes and gutters allow us to follow the streams, the béals and the canals buried underground, and, in a few places, a washhouse, a cave and artistic petrifications stop us. These heritage elements are revealed by means of an investigation provided with photographs, drawings, paintings, poems and sculptures from which memory and history emerge.

On the trail of water in the Ariane district

Guided tours

  • Saturday at 10am and 2pm 

By reservation: nemoz.charlotte@gmail.com / m.barbieux@debrouillonet.org

Digging the Riana along the Paillons

  • Saturday at 4 p.m.  

by Charlotte Némoz and Les Petits Débrouillards
By reservation: nemoz.charlotte@gmail.com


Bellanda Tower – The Bellandarium

Lesage Climb – Castle Hill

Free visits

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Due to its privileged position, the Bellanda Tower offers one of the most beautiful views of the Bay of Angels and tells us the thousand-year-old history of the Castle Hill.


Saint Francis Tower

Tower Street

Free visits

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. FULL

Last climbs at 12:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.

Meeting point at Ruelle Saint-André
Not accessible to children under 7 and people with reduced mobility.
261 steps. Please note that the bell rings every 30 minutes.
Like a signal in the Old Town punctuated by the sound of its bell and its clock, step by step, your effort will be up to the breathtaking view embracing the city of Nice.
By reservation: 04 92 00 41 90 or www.vah.nice.fr


Côte d’Azur University – Trotabas Campus

Faculty of Law and Political Science
Avenue du Doyen-Louis-Trotabas
04 89 15 25 00

Ulysses’ Message

Come see Marc Chagall’s monumental mosaic, The Message of Ulysses, a masterpiece admired in the Salle des Pas Perdus. An explanatory booklet will guide you through its symbols and poetry.

Free visits

  • Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Guided tour by Anne Dopffer

  • Saturday 10:30 a.m.

By reservation

Villa Passiflores

Guided tours

  • Saturday at 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. FULL

For a more in-depth immersion, take part in the guided tours of the Villa Passiflores led by Dominique Laredo, Doctor of Art and Civilization History.
By reservation
In case of cancellation: 04 89 15 25 00


Meet 15 minutes in advance in front of the entrance to the Faculty of Law and Political Science, Trotabas Campus, avenue du Doyen Louis Trotabas, with proof of identity.


Côte d’Azur University – Valrose Campus

28, avenue Valrose
Parc Valrose
04 89 15 10 05
https://univ-cotedazur.fr/lieux/valrose
Guided tours of the Grand Château

  • Saturday and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. FULL

By reservation :
In case of cancellation: pole-val-patrimoine@univ-cotedazur.fr

Come and discover, with the tour guides from the City of Art and History department, the Domaine de Valrose, a historic and landscaped setting in the heart of the area classified as a UNESCO world heritage site, headquarters of the Presidency of the Côte d’Azur University and the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

Meet 15 minutes in advance in front of the park entrance gates, at 28 avenue Valrose, with your ID. It is essential to come with suitable shoes.


Villa Dreamland

6, boulevard du Prince-de-Galles
Bus 5 (Prince-de-Galles stop), 33 or 16 (Torre di Cimella stop)
https://emi-nice.com/

Dreamland or the dream life of Octave Pelletier

  • Sunday at 10am and 2pm

by Franck Sainte-Martine, visual artist, former chorister, initiator and co-author of the artist’s book Dreamland
Who was Octave Pelletier, a colorful character born in 1878, who was in turn a hypnotist, writer, publisher, spy and olive oil merchant in Nice? Come and meet his great-grandnephew and discover the incredible story of his ancestor in the very heart of the Dreamland* villa where he lived in the 1930s.
Duration 1h30
By reservation: marie.gomez.pujol@emi-nice.com

*Currently the villa houses the International Montessori School of Nice.

 

Around the World is the name of Nice’s newest and largest English-language bookstore. Located at 58 rue Gioffredo, this spiffy and eclectic bookstore is an annex of the prestigious French-language Librairie Massena just a few doors away.

I’m so proud that Around the World now features Nice Uncovered: Walks Through the Secret Heart of a Historic City and hosted a delightful book-signing event yesterday. Did you miss it? Alas. Check out this short reel!

 

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