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Antibes Museums
PICASSO MUSEUM
A visit to the Picasso Museum is a moving experience. It evokes joy and pain, despondency and exultation. Visitors cannot help but sense all that has gone on within these walls that were the Antibes Chateau. There was the delicate balance of a family relationship and the ensuing drama; the intrusion of the museum on the chateau; the silence and the magic. The chateau of Antibes is poetic, serious and joyous at one and the same time, like the sea that is visible from many of its windows. A place which saw nobility and poverty and which one day became the home of the Spanish artist Picasso, who continued the magic. The museum is not to be understood, it is to be experienced. It is what it is, take it or leave it.
PEYNET MUSEUM
The Museum was opened in 1989 and is named after the celebrated illustrator who lived for many years in Antibes. A stroll around the museum is always entertaining, looking at the whimsical work of Raymond Peynet, creator of the well-known Lovers in etchings, lithographs, gouache, Indian ink, on porcelain, dolls, in books and cartoons in the press. His diverse sixty-year career is represented here.
ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
The Archaeology Museum, opened in 1963, was installed in the Bastion Saint Andrée, a military fortification constructed by Vauban at the end of the 17th century. It is ideally situated overlooking the sea, and there is a panoramic view from its terrace of the old town and the Cap d'Antibes;
Recently renovated, the two vaulted galleries house archaeological collections of Antibes, which trace the history of the town since antiquity.
NAPOLEONIC MUSEUM
Entry: 3 Euros
Reduced tariff: 1.50 Euros
Under 18s free
10 Euro combined ticket, valid 7 consecutive days for entry to Picasso, Archaeology, Peynet, Napoleonic Museum, and Fort Carré.
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