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Nice a L’école de l'histoire Exhibition

From the first inhabitants of the prehistoric site of Terra Amata to the tourists of the Promenade des Anglais, for 400 000 years, Nice has always been present at the great rendezvous of History. A five-chapter exhibition of a city and its territory, this exhibition is a veritable gallery of time: from the invention of fire to the Greek colony, from the Roman conquest to the Barbarian invasions, from the Christianization to the Provence land of France Or Empire, from the invention of tourism to globalization, from the two World Wars to July 14, 2016. This exploration of a few millennia of Nice history constitutes its imaginary museum, a museum where masterpieces of all periods meet, highlighting the singularity of the destiny of this great Mediterranean city. The Masséna Museum The Massena Museum is housed in the Villa Massena, designed in neoclassical style between 1898 and 1901 by architects Aaron Messiah and Hans-Georg Tersling, on behalf of Victor d'Essling (1836-1910), grandson of Marshal of Nice André Masséna (1758-1817). Its gardens were designed by landscape architect Édouard André. The last large stately villa built on the Promenade des Anglais, and one of the only ones still visible today, it is ceded to the City of Nice