Masséna Museum
_(5953504945).jpg) Masséna Museum (2011) |
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| place | Nice 
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Museum of Art and History
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| architect | Hans-Georg Tersling |
| opening | 1921 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 51,063 (2014) |
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State Museum
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The Musée Masséna is one of the 18 state museums and cultural institutions in the French city of Nice . It is located on the Promenade des Anglais right next to the Hotel Negresco and has been showing art from the time up to the end of the Belle Époque as well as the art and regional history of the Côte d'Azur since 1921 .
history
The original villa was built between 1898 and 1902 according to the plans of the Danish architect Hans-Georg Tersling (1857–1920), who had created several representative buildings on the Côte d'Azur during the Belle Epoque . The building was built in the then fashionable neoclassical style with a strong Italian influence. The magnificent ground floor and the furnishings in the halls were designed by Tersling and Aaron Messiah (1858–1940). The art objects and furniture are in the style of the Empire . The building complex includes a large park, which is designed according to the English model , but with Mediterranean plants.
The museum is named after the grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte's military leader André Masséna , the politician Victor Masséna, Prince of Essling and Duke of Rivoli (1836–1910), who had the villa built and used it as a winter residence. His son and heir André Prosper Victor Eugène Napoléon Masséna sold it to the city of Nice in 1919 for an amount equal to what he would have had to pay to keep the park of the villa inaccessible to the public under French inheritance law.
The museum opened in 1921. Extensive repairs and restorations took place up to 2008, so the museum is now handicapped accessible. In addition, the collections and presentations have been reorganized and modernized. Admission was generally free until 2014, since then a fee has been charged for visitors who do not come from the region.
Exhibitions
In the Masséna Museum, paintings, sculptures, handicrafts, jewelry and furniture from the Belle Epoque are shown on two floors. Special objects are, for example, the death mask of Napoleon Bonaparte , made by the surgeon Docteur Arnold, and the mother-of-pearl diadem of Napoleon's first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais . In addition, large-format paintings, genre paintings , including patriotic seascapes , battle pictures , sculptures and the book Côte d'Azur , handwritten by Stéphen Liégeard , are on display.
But the museum also offers rooms on the second floor for changing exhibitions of modern art , if it is related to local history. From February 4 to May 24, 2016, there was an extensive and much-noticed exhibition on the Vie? ou theater? the Berlin painter Charlotte Salomon , who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943 .
On the top floor is the library of the French mountaineer and philanthropist Victor de Cessole (1859-1941) with many documents and papers on the history of the county of Nice , Provence , the Savoie department and northern Italy.
literature
- Didier Gayraud: Belles demeures en Riviéra (1835–1930). Éditions Giletta, Nizza 2005, ISBN 2-915606-20-X , pp. 116–117 and 303.
- Louis Mézin: La Villa Masséna. You Premier Empire à la Belle Époque . Somogy; Musée Masséna, Paris / Nice 2010, ISBN 978-2-7572-0387-3 (French).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The top 5 des musées municipaux les plus fréquentés à Nice. on metronews.fr
- ^ Exposition Charlotte Salomon “Vie? ou Théâtre? " au Musée Masséna on the Académie Nice website (French).
- ↑ Charlotte Salomon Musée Masséna Nice. le-musee-prive.com, accessed on July 17, 2016 (French).
- ↑ Bibliothèque de Cessole / Center de documentation du Musée Masséna [Nice]. documentation-provence.org, accessed July 17, 2016 (French).
