"NICE AT SCHOOL OF HISTORY.

From June 24, 2017, to October 15, 2017

VILLA MASSENA

As part of the exhibitions 'School (s) of NICE'

The exhibition proposes to explore the moments of its history where Nice was the rendezvous of the history of the world.

So, is that in the l of a broad chronology from "the invention of fire" on the site of Terra Amata, ago 400,000 years to 'the invention of tourism', in the middle of the 18th century, through the Roman conquest, the "barbarian invasions" or "Congress". Nice"of 1538, a gallery of time offers visitors a course surprising in the history of Nice and its territory.

Office of the Commissioner
Jean-Jacques Aillagon, assisted by Aymeric Jeudy
Scenography & graphic design
Kristof Everart & Marcel Bataillard
Number of works
More than 200 works

Thanks to Jean-Jacques Aillagon for this exhibition which explores a few sequences where Nice was the rendezvous of the history of the world in a meaningful way.

Newspaper Le Monde on the terrible attack of Nice during the fireworks of July 14, 2016
Raoul Dufy who loved so and so peidre Nice and its famous Fireworks

"Invention of the Maditerrannee" by the Greeks, which based on the shore of Niçois a colony which should prove sustainable, that of Nikaia...

Nice becomes a cosmopolitan city dedicated to the aristocratic and climatic resort, then what commonly referred to tourism to the twentieth century...

The exhibition offers an exploration of a few thousand years of the history of Nice and emphasizes the joints with the General history, it is the sketch of a portrait of the city or will meet heads of works from all periods.

Nice at school of history could be a day, a full-fledged Museum!