{"id":7,"date":"2008-04-07T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2010-05-31T09:16:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T09:16:40","slug":"massena-museum-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/massena-museum-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Massena Museum Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long wait but well worth it. The Mus\u00e9e Massena (Massena Museum<\/a>) in Nice<\/a> finally opened after a nine-year restoration. For years, I would stroll by the stately exterior wondering when (if ever) I could see what’s inside.<\/p>\n

I waited a while after the opening ceremony in March to pay a visit. I took advantage of the special \u20ac2.50 fee (it’s usually \u20ac4) and chose a Saturday instead of the first and third Sundays of the month when admission is free.<\/p>\n

All in all, it was a charming excursion into Nice history. Although the museum claims to own some 15,000 objects displaying the history of Nice, only a fraction were on display. My favorite was the display of photos and paintings showing Nice up through WWII. It gave an excellent idea of a less developed and more relaxed city.<\/p>\n

My only complaint (and it’s not a small one) is that there was a lack of labelling on the objects. In many cases, it was not really clear what you were looking at.<\/p>\n

Ah, but that’s why admission is only \u20ac2.50, the ticket seller told me. In another month or so, all will be in order and the museum will be even more fascinating to visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long wait but well worth it. The Mus\u00e9e Massena (Massena Museum) in Nice finally opened after a nine-year restoration. For years, I would stroll by the stately exterior wondering when (if ever) I could see what’s inside. I waited a while after the opening ceremony in March …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nice","category-french-riviera-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}