MATISSE MUSEUM

NICE

The museum has a unique collection of the work of Henri Matisse. It brings together a set of works and objects of the artist and his heirs.
Visit the Matisse museum to have the privilege to penetrate in the intimacy of his creation.

Works by Matisse

The collection of the Matisse Museum in Nice is unique in the world, in that it brings together a set of works and objects from the artist's collection or from his heirs.
Most of these works and objects come directly or almost directly from the studio of Henri Matisse, and therefore constitute an exceptional testimony. During your visit you will enter the intimacy of Matisse. Thus through this course the museum makes you relive the painter in which his works and objects respond.
The interest of the collection lies in the panorama that the museum of Nice offers since the first paintings. Discover his works from 1890 to the gouache papers from the end of his life, and the presentation of all the techniques of expression of the artist.
The Matisse Museum also keeps the artist's personal objects, which allows you to enter the intimacy of his creation.

Matisse Museum in the garden of the Cimiez Arena

The collection

The Matisse Museum holds:
- 31 paintings,
- 454 drawings and engravings,
- 38 gouaches cut out
- 57 sculptures,

This collection covers all of the artist's production periods, as well as more than 400 cut-out gouache paper elements not used by Matisse in his compositions, donated by the family in 2012.

The Matisse Museum is the only one in Europe to preserve almost all of the artist's sculptural work, thus highlighting a practice that he associated with painting throughout his career.

The Matisse villa in the garden of the Cimiez Arena in Nice

The Matisse villa and the Cimiez garden

The Matisse Museum is a fully renovated 17th century Genoese villa in the heart of the olive grove of the Cimiez gardens. It is a monographic museum allowing you to follow the artistic evolution of the painter who lived in Nice from 1917 until his death in 1954.
During your visit we advise you to walk in the gardens of the Cimiez arenas.
Just next to the museum in the garden of the arenas, we suggest you visit the museum of archaeology of Nice.

Schedules & Rates

Opening hours of the Matisse Museum

Museum open every day except Tuesday:
- 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. from November 1 to April 30
- 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from May 2 to October 31

Ticket office closes 30 minutes before.
The Matisse Museum is closed on January 1st, Easter Sunday, May 1st and December 25th.

Prices of the Matisse Museum and Museums of Nice

Ticket 24h : 10 euros/person
When you take a ticket, this ticket gives you access to all the museums of Nice and to the municipal galleries during 24h.

If you wish, you can ask for a week pass: 7 days
7 day ticket: 20 euros/person
As for the 24h pass, it gives you access to all the municipal museums and galleries during 7 days.

Free ticket
- children under 18
- students,
- jobseekers (monthly certificate),
beneficiaries of the revenu de solidarité active (RSA), the allocation de solidarité spécifique (ASS), the allocation de solidarité aux personnes âgées (ASPA),
disabled civilians and war veterans as well as one accompanying person per person,
. But also museum curators, journalists, teachers (Education Pass)
guide-lecturers (professional card)...

GOOD PLACE Nice Museum Pass

Nice Museums Pass
This pass is only for the inhabitants of the Nice Côte d'Azur Metropolis, aged over 18.
It gives you free access to all the galleries and museums in the city of Nice, on presentation of a proof of address less than 3 months old.

Photo Credit - Photo Musée Matisse exterieure ©Ville de Nice -- Musee Matisse_Fenetre_Photo © Francois Fernandez --