Marc Chagall National Museum

Musée national Marc Chagall

A museum Chagall helped design for his Bible paintings

⚠ Closed Tuesdays

Hours

Closed Tuesdays. 2 May–31 Oct 10am–1pm and 2:30–6pm; 1 Nov–30 Apr 10am–1pm and 2:30–5pm (4:30pm in March). Ticket sales end 30 min before closing. Closed 1 Jan, 1 May, 25 Dec (official site and tourist office, 2026)

Tickets

€10 (reduced €8), or €12 (reduced €10) during temporary exhibitions. Free for under-18s, on the first Sunday of the month and with the French Riviera Pass (tourist office, 2026). Buy at the door

Address

36 Avenue du Docteur Ménard, at the corner of Boulevard de Cimiez

It opened while Chagall was still alive, built to hold his great cycle of paintings on the Old Testament, the 'Biblical Message'. Walk into the main white room and huge canvases wash over you in blues and reds, goats, angels and lovers floating free of gravity. In the small concert hall, three blue stained-glass windows he designed turn the whole room blue when the afternoon sun comes through. There's a café in the Mediterranean garden for a break afterwards.