Archaeology museums in Nice

Musée des Arts Asiatiques de Nice is the Asian Arts Museum of Nice in Parc Phœnix, which houses collections of Asian arts. It was inaugurated in 1981 and was designed by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange. Its collections are from private and public collections, reflecting the important civilizations in

The archaeological museum of Cimiez (Musée archéologique de Nice-Cimiez) is a museum in Nice in France that is dedicated to ancient history, located on the hill of Cimiez, the ancient Roman town of Cemenelum. With the museum of human paleontology of Terra-Amata, it constitutes the museum of archeolo

Musée Franciscain (the Franciscan Museum) is a museum in Nice in France that is devoted to the life of the Franciscans in Nice from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The museum illustrates the spiritual and social message of Saint Francis of Assisi through paintings, sculptures, engravings

Terra Amata is an archeological site on the slopes of Mount Boron in Nice, in France. On the site, which used to be a prehistoric beach, archeaologists discovered tools of the Lower Paleolithic period (around 400,000 BCE) and traces of some of Europe's earliest domestication of fire. The site now li