Musée National Marc Chagall

With Henri Fish as landscape architect and André Hermant, a member of the Union of Modern Artists, as its architect, the National Museum Marc Chagall, located on the hill of Cimiez in Nice, was established to house the works of the great painter (1887-1985), who supported the genesis and life of the museum until his death. The building, modern and bright, is surrounded by a Mediterranean garden, with green, blue and white harmonies the painter himself desired.

The tour is designed as a poetic journey in Chagall's world: the museum has the largest public collection of the artist's works in the world! More than 800 paintings, gouaches, drawings, lavis, pastels, sculptures and mosaics are preserved in the museum. The collection, extending to 900 m2, shows all aspects of the work of Chagall, who, after the war, became interested in many techniques. The two rooms devoted to the "Biblical Message" cycle do not change. The others are devoted to temporary exhibitions and new hangings from the collection. The auditorium is famed for its three great stained glass windows which evoke "The Creation of the World."