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Musée d’Archéologie

Promenade Pierre Merli · Museum · Vieil Antibes

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The building

Antibes’s archaeology museum sits in the Bastion Saint-André, built in 1698 on Vauban’s plans at the southern tip of the town walls; its two brick-vaulted galleries were the garrison’s refectory. Opened in 1963 after a run of shipwreck finds, it tells the story of Antipolis from the seventh century BC to the fifth century AD – from Etruscan and Greek pottery and the Terpon pebble, the town’s oldest inscription, to the cargoes of wrecks found in the Anse Saint-Roch. Climb to the roof terrace for the view the town recommends.

Good to know. On the sea wall, at the southern end of the old town. Check the season’s opening days on the town’s page.

Facts

Address
Promenade Pierre Merli
Use
MuseumOpenStreetMap
Footprint
887 m²OpenStreetMap
Heritage setting
Within the setting of a historic monumentBDNB
Quartier
Vieil Antibes
Built
1698Ville d’Antibes
Architect
Vauban (plans)Ville d’Antibes
Heritage
Monument historique inscrit, 23 January 1930Wikipédia · Mérimée PA00080660

On the map

Musée d’Archéologie, its outline lit, on Promenade Pierre Merli.

Mer MéditerranéeSquare Albert 1erAvenue Barquier

Building outlines and heights © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

On Promenade Pierre Merli

Promenade Pierre Merli

The street guide: every building on the map, the sun along the street, the places and the buses.

Nearby

Sights

  • 30 mmonument romain provenant de BiotMonument
  • 0 mbastion Saint-AndréPalace
  • 270 mFontaine de la TourraqueStatue and art
  • 140 mSquare Albert 1erViewpoint
  • 20 mMusée d'ArchéologieViewpoint
  • 280 mMonument de l'opération maritime d'avril 1942Monument

Food & drink

The sea and the port

Buses

  • 60 mAvenue Barquier
  • 130 mMaizière
  • 190 mAvenue Maréchal Reille

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Sources

Text: Metro Mode, from Ville d’Antibes – Découvrir le musée d’Archéologie; Wikipédia – Bastion Saint-André (Antibes); Office de Tourisme – Antibes, la cité des remparts.

Building outline, height, floors, use and address: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0.

Year built, dwellings, storeys and materials: BDNB (CSTB, from the fichiers fonciers), Licence Ouverte 2.0 – facts about the building only.

Wikidata (CC0) and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); the photograph from Wikimedia Commons under its own licence.

Buses: Compagnie des Autobus d’Antibes GTFS (Licence Ouverte 2.0).

Official website antibes-juanlespins.com