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Musée Jean Cocteau - Collection Severin Wunderman

Rudy Ricciotti's seafront museum for Cocteau, closed since the 2018 storm

Musée Jean Cocteau - Collection Severin Wunderman
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In 2005 the collector Séverin Wunderman gave Menton some 1,800 works, about a thousand of them by Jean Cocteau, on condition that a building be made for them. Rudy Ricciotti won the competition in 2008 with a slightly truncated triangle of 2,700 square metres whose broken façade is meant to reflect the many sides of Cocteau's work; the museum opened in November 2011.

On 29 October 2018 the waves of storm Adrian flooded its stores, and the museum has been closed since; the works affected have largely been restored, and Cocteau exhibitions are shown at the Bastion in the meantime.

Musée Jean Cocteau - Collection Severin Wunderman is a museum on Quai de Monléon in Menton. The station Menton - Garavan is 1500 m away (about 23 min on foot).

Marché Couvert, Halles municipales de, Quai de Monleon, 06500 MentonCafé du ParvisL'ExocetLe BrazzaPlage de FossanSiniAu pays du citronmaison de rey100 m
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Quai de Monléon: the streetAll of Menton

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