Museum · Carré d'Or
Musée Masséna
A Belle Époque villa on the Promenade, and Nice's museum of its own history
Victor Masséna, prince of Essling and grandson of the Niçois marshal, built this seaside villa from 1898, asking the architects Hans-Georg Tersling and Aaron Messiah for an Italian neoclassical house with an Empire accent – a nod to Napoleon, to whom the family owed its titles. His son sold it to the city in 1919 on condition that the garden be public and the villa a museum of local history; so it is.
The garden, designed by the landscape botanist Édouard André, was restored in 2006–07. The entrance is on the north side, at 65 Rue de France.
Nearby
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- ManorVilla MassénaManor · Carré d'Or12 m
- Public artMassénaPublic art · Carré d'Or51 m
- MemorialMémorial des victimes de l'attentat du 14 juillet 2016Memorial · Carré d'Or55 m
- SpaN Le SpaSpa · Carré d'Or55 m
- HotelWest EndHotel in Nice, France55 m
Sources
- Wikipédia (fr) : Musée Masséna
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Wikidata
- POP – Mérimée (Ministère de la Culture)
- INSEE IRIS / IGN (the quartier, VERA's approximate division)