MAMAC

❗MAMAC closes on January 7, 2024 for a renovation project as part of the Tour du Paillon season 2 project.

The museum will eventually be at the heart of a large 20-hectare green lung that will actively contribute to the fight against climate change and to the well-being of the inhabitants and visitors.
The work of MAMAC will last 4 years. The museum will benefit from an in-depth renovation campaign to meet the challenges of a 21st century museum and strengthen its international outreach.

"During this closing period, I want the Niçois to continue to benefit from the richness of the MAMAC collections. The closure of the museum for these essential rehabilitation and beautification works marks the beginning of a new era: the discovery of the MAMAC otherwise, including unpublished works that will be exhibited in other municipal museums and in the city. MAMAC will meet the inhabitants of Nice, the Metropolis, and abroad! Niki de Saint Phalle will be exhibited in the United States. I would like to warmly thank Hélène Guenin for this ambitious programming, accessible to all audiences and which will continue to radiate the museum. »
Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice, President of the Metropolis Nice Côte d’Azur, President Delegate of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region.

• MAMAC near you
The MAMAC will offer several collaborations with museums in Nice, the metropolitan area and the South Region, which will allow the public to rediscover the museum's works differently but also unpublished treasures...
Mi-juin 2024, go to the very beautiful setting of the Fernand Léger Museum in Biot, for the exhibition "Fernand Léger et les nouveaux réalismes", co-produced by the Réunion des Musées nationaux-Grand Palais and the Musées nationales du XXe siècle des Alpes-Maritimes, in partnership with MAMAC. The exhibition will unveil an extraordinary face-to-face between one of the masters of modernity and some 60 works of the MAMAC collection!
Mi-October 2024, go to the Matisse Museum for an unpublished face between Henri Matisse and Yves Klein. Two of the biggest artistic signatures in Nice will finally dialogue in a clash at the heart of the Villa's rooms. The majestic Stabile-Mobile (1970) by Alexander Calder, a monumental abstract steel work of 8 meters high and more than 7 meters wide, has already taken its quarters on the northern edge of the Villa des Arènes!

• MAMAC on travel
The collection of the museum will also shine abroad. MAMAC has a very rich set of works by major artists of the second half of the twentieth century. The closure of the museum for work offers a unique opportunity to raise awareness of it and to build collaborations with international museums.
At the end of April 2024, MAMAC will present at the prestigious Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri (United States), a major exhibition of Niki de Saint-Phalle. More than 80 works of the collection will be lent for this exhibition, which will be the first great retrospective in the United States of the Franco-American artist.
Other major projects will be organized in 2024 and 2025 to radiate the MAMAC collection around the world.

• MAMAC nomade
The museum will continue its inclusive policy and its actions towards all audiences: schools, the community, but also with prison and hospital settings. As early as January 2024, the team will ensure a pedagogical continuity with schools with workshops outside the walls, Education Artistic and Cultural projects, events, itinerant educational briefs, sound and digital creations for the future museum....

• MAMAC online
As of February 2024 new entries will be used to monitor the activity of MAMAC. An online offer will be progressively deployed on social networks, YouTube, the museum's website with "Tell me a work"; “Artists’ Words” and “Le MAMAC en coulisses” sections to discover the museum and its collection otherwise.

The Saviour?

The Queen's Bridge!

Prior to its coverage, the Barla bridge was enclosing the Paillon and connecting the Risso and Carabacel boulevards. This bridge, with a length of 72.5 metres and a width of 14 metres, was planned in 1895 and inaugurated by Queen Victoria in 1899. The newspaper Le Phare du Littoral says: "When the Queen's car arrived at Barla Street, the bridge was immediately delivered to the traffic...".