musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain de Nice

• Name — Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain • Established — 1990 6 21 • Location — Place Yves Klein - 06364 Nice cedex 4 FRANCE • Type — Art museum • Visitors — 135714 per year (2012) • Website — www.mamac-nice.org/

The Museum is located near the Place Garibaldi. It was designed by two architects, Yves Bayard and Henri Vidal, and is shaped as a tetrapod arch straddling the course of the Paillon. The monumentality of the project developed to cross the Paillon allows connection through a terrace, called the Promenade des Arts, from the Museum to the Theater. With its square plan, the architecture of the building is inspired by neo-classicism rules. The available area is approximately 4,500 m2, distributed over ten showrooms. The facades are covered with smooth white Carrara marble. The entrance and the shop are located at the level of the esplanade Niki de Saint Phalle, which overlooks the Place Yves Klein. The gallery spaces are devoted to temporary exhibitions on the first floor, and the permanent collections are on the second and third floors. The entrance is free and opens daily from 10.00 am to 6:00 pm, except on Mondays and some holidays.

Since the opening, Yves Klein has a room which displays approximately twenty of his works, several of them belonging to the permanent collection of the museum. In October 2001, Niki de Saint Phalle bequeathed a large part of her collection to the city of Nice for the museum. The donation consists of 170 works including 63 paintings and sculptures, 18 prints, 40 lithographs, serigraphs, and 54 many original documents. In 2004, artist Albert Chubac gave a hundred works to the Museum. In 2010, the collector Khalil Nahoul offered 94 art pieces (paintings, drawings, prints).

Since the opening of the Museum on June 21, 1990, over 213 exhibitions have been presented. • 3 exhibitions are actually running (May 2013) • 8 exhibitions were shown at the Galerie des Ponchettes • 34 exhibitions were shown in the display cabinet • 89 exhibitions were shown at the Museum's Galery • 79 exhibitions were shown in the Museum