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The villa
The museum is in a villa built between 1670 and 1685
The Villa des Arènes was built from 1670 to 1685 and named the Gubernatis palace after its sponsor and owner, Jean-Baptiste Gubernatis, then consul in Nice. It took its current name in 1950, when the City of Nice bought it to preserve it.
A museum
The museum shared the villa with archaeology until 1989
The museum was created in 1963 and occupied the first floor of the villa, with a museum of archaeology on the ground floor. In 1989 the archaeological museum moved, allowing the Musée Matisse to expand. It closed for four years of renovation and reopened in 1993 with a new modern wing.
The gift
Most of the collection came from Matisse and his heirs
The permanent collection is made up of donations, primarily those of Matisse himself, who lived and worked in Nice from 1917 to 1954, and those of his heirs. It holds 68 paintings and gouaches, 236 drawings, 218 prints, 57 sculptures and 187 objects that belonged to the painter.
187objects that belonged to the painter, among the collection
Day 2, morning
Next is Marc Chagall Museum.
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