Updated: SEPTEMBER 9, 2026
Every art exhibition on show right now across the French Riviera and Monaco, town by town, with dates and what it costs to get in. Prices are the full adult rate; under-18s go free almost everywhere.
💡 Insider tip: save money with passes. Nice’s municipal museums share one ticket, Antibes has the Pass’Musées across four sites, Vallauris covers two museums on a single ticket, and Grasse and Le Cannet share a four-day ticket between them. If you are seeing more than one thing in a town, ask at the tourism desk.
Antibes & Juan-les-Pins
- Michel Verjux: Voiles, découpes, traverses at the Musée Picasso, Château Grimaldi , through September 27, 2026. Beams of light rework the château’s rooms and its sea-facing terrace. €12, or €15 for the Pass’Musées covering four Antibes sites over seven days.
- Quino at the Musée Peynet et du Dessin humoristique , through September 20, 2026. A retrospective of the Argentine cartoonist who created Mafalda. Included in the €15 Pass’Musées.
- Les voix de leurs œuvres at the Fondation Hartung-Bergman , through September 25, 2026. Hans Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman told through their own words, in the house and studios they built. Visits by appointment.
Beaulieu-sur-Mer
- Harumi Klossowska de Rola at Villa Kérylos , through September 20, 2026. Bronze animals and plants by Balthus’s daughter, set through the rooms of the Greek villa. €15.
Biot
- Léger et La Création du monde at the Musée national Fernand Léger , through October 12, 2026. The sets and costumes Léger designed for the 1923 Ballets Suédois production. €10 while an exhibition is on.
- Glass is Biotiful V at the Salles Hedberg-Torun , through October 25, 2026. Forty contemporary glass pieces picked from an international open call.
- Biot International Glass Festival at the Musée d’Histoire et de Céramique Biotoises , September 20 to November 25, 2026. Work made specially for the festival by twenty international glass artists.
Cagnes-sur-Mer
- 80 ans du Château-musée Grimaldi , through January 4, 2027. The castle museum’s eightieth birthday, told through its founding gifts and its years as home of the Painting Festival. €4.
- Destination Bijou at the Musée du Bijou contemporain , through September 20, 2026. Three contemporary jewellery shows at once, including a Herman Hermsen retrospective.
Cannes
- Hervé Di Rosa: Mirages du monde at the Centre d’art La Malmaison , through November 8, 2026. Vivid paintings from the Figuration Libre artist’s travels around the world. €6.50. The gallery closes September 25 to October 2.
- Marion Charlet: Felicità at the Suquet des Artistes , through January 10, 2027. Saturated, sunlit paintings of imagined paradises. €4.50.
- Gilbert Portanier: les céramiques en liberté at the Espace Miramar , September 8 to 27, 2026. A centenary tribute to the Vallauris ceramicist.
- Un hommage à André Malraux: le musée imaginaire revisité at the Musée du Masque de fer et du Fort Royal , through October 31, 2026. Malraux’s museum without walls, reworked on Île Sainte-Marguerite. €6.50, plus the ferry from the Vieux Port.
- Les oubliés du Fort Royal , from November 28, 2026. The forgotten story of the fort’s First World War civilian internment camp. €6.50.
- Francis Picabia: Méditerranée, l’atelier azuréen at La Malmaison , from December 5, 2026. Picabia’s Riviera years. €6.50.
- Alexandre Roubtzoff: Sous le soleil de Carthage at the Musée des Explorations du Monde , from December 27, 2026. The Russian-born painter’s luminous Tunisian scenes. €6.50. The museum is closed for works September 14 to October 30.
Grasse
- Parfums d’Asie at the Musée International de la Parfumerie , through January 3, 2027. Scent traditions from China to India, through rare materials, incense and things to smell. €6, or €10 for a four-day ticket shared with the Musée Bonnard in Le Cannet.
Le Cannet
- Bonnard intime: Les toilettes de Marthe at the Musée Bonnard , through October 31, 2026. Bonnard’s private paintings of Marthe, shown with L’Atelier au Mimosa on loan from the Centre Pompidou. €8.
Menton
- Le château de la Bête at the Musée Jean Cocteau, Le Bastion , through November 16, 2026. Eighty years of Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête, in posters, photographs, drawings and work by contemporary artists. €5.
- Les jardins enchantés de Jean Cocteau at the Galerie des Musées , Palais de l’Europe, through January 30, 2027. Gardens and growing things in Cocteau’s imagination, drawn from the Séverin Wunderman collection.
Monaco / Monte-Carlo
- Victor Brauner, the Magical Adventure at Villa Paloma , through January 3, 2027. More than 160 works by the Surrealist painter, drawn from an exceptional Monaco private collection. €6, and free on Sundays and for anyone under 26.
- Le Jeu de la rose et du carré on the Villa Paloma rooftop, through January 3, 2027. Eight artists reimagine the Surrealists’ Jeu de Marseille tarot as flags. Same ticket as above.
- Le Mariage du Siècle at the Prince’s Palace , through September 25, 2026. Rainier III and Grace Kelly’s 1956 wedding, through archives, dresses and jewellery. €13 with the State Apartments.
- De Toumaï à Sapiens at the Musée d’Anthropologie Préhistorique , through October 16, 2026. Seven million years of human evolution, with 3D reconstructions.
- Magies d’ailleurs at the same museum , through December 15, 2026. Ritual and magical objects compared across world cultures.
- Méditerranée 2050 at the Oceanographic Museum , running long-term. Four immersive rooms that drop you into the Mediterranean of 2050. €22.50 adults, €14 children 4 to 17.
- Patrimoine en danger on the railings of the Jardins Saint-Martin , through October 4, 2026. Fifteen young prizewinning photographers on cultural heritage at risk. Free, in the open air.
- Mise-en-scène at Hauser & Wirth , through September 26, 2026. Pierre Paulin’s furniture staged with Picasso, Bourgeois and contemporary artists. Free, by appointment.
- Xevi Solà: Thoughts of a Bigger Splash at Opera Gallery , September 18 to October 15, 2026. New paintings by the Catalan artist. Free.
- Lumières sur la Lagune at Lampronti Gallery , September 23 to November 6, 2026. Canaletto, Bellotto, Guardi and Marieschi, timed to the Yacht Show. Free.
Villa Sauber, the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco’s second house, is shut for restoration and extension until 2029, so the whole programme is at Villa Paloma for now.
Mougins
- Beth Carter: Contes pour chasser la tristesse at the Centre d’art de Mougins , through November 1, 2026. Big charcoal drawings and sculptures of mythic half-human, half-animal figures. Free on the first Sunday of the month.
- Bertien van Manen: Les échos de l’ordinaire at the Centre de la Photographie de Mougins , through October 4, 2026. The Dutch photographer’s close, unshowy record of ordinary life. €6.
- Icônes: images fantasmées at the same centre , from October 31, 2026. How photography feeds the urge to reinvent ourselves. €6.
Nice
Nice’s municipal museums share one ticket: €10 for a single museum, or €15 for a pass covering ten of them over four days. Under-18s, students and job seekers go free, and residents of the Métropole can get a free three-year Pass Musées.
- Henri Matisse – Yves Saint Laurent. Le beau, la mode et le bonheur at the Musée Matisse , through September 28, 2026. Matisse’s colour and cut-outs set against Saint Laurent’s couture. €10.
- Chagall à l’œuvre. Un prêt d’exception au musée at the Musée national Marc Chagall , through September 21, 2026. The second rotation of 141 works lent from the Centre Pompidou donation. €12; this is a national museum, so the Nice city pass does not cover it.
- De la scène à la toile. Artistes et mondaines de la Belle Époque at the Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret , through April 4, 2027. Belle Époque performers and society women from the museum’s own collection. €10.
- Merveilles et curiosités du Palais Lascaris , through January 11, 2027, and Coun. Libera l’Art, through January 18, 2027. The baroque palace as a cabinet of curiosities, with a contemporary artist installed among it. €10.
- Nice, ma ville, mes jardins at Villa Masséna , through September 20, 2026. Centuries of artists painting the city’s gardens. €10.
- Mathieu Forget: Lévitation at the Musée de la Photographie Charles Nègre , through September 27, 2026. Eighty photographs about movement and weightlessness, in the artist’s first museum show. €10.
- Africa Pop at the Musée International d’Art Naïf Anatole Jakovsky , through October 18, 2026. Popular and naïve African art, loudly and brilliantly hung. €10.
- Anne et Patrick Poirier: Mémoires des ruines at the Musée d’Archéologie de Nice-Cimiez , from November 7, 2026. The artist duo answer the Roman site around them. €10.
- Staring at the Sun and Dany Albiach: Là où le jour cède at Villa Arson , both through September 27, 2026. The art school’s graduating year, alongside Albiach’s nocturnal installations.
- Atmosphérique, filmer l’architecture at the Forum d’Urbanisme et d’Architecture , through October 30, 2026. Architecture seen through film, conceived by arc en rêve in Bordeaux.
- Lilette et Gilbert Valentin: Quand la terre devient lumière at the Espace Lympia , through October 18, 2026. The couple’s ceramics, shown in the old harbour prison.
- Bernard Reyboz: Hors norme at L’Artistique , September 11, 2026 to January 16, 2027. Invented worlds by an artist who is half inventor.
- Trésors, charafi et quoi encore ? at the Centre du Patrimoine , through October 30, 2026. Niçois heritage and vernacular treasures.
- Léonard de Vinci, à la croisée des Arts et des Sciences at the Gare du Sud , through December 31, 2026. An immersive walk through Leonardo’s art and engineering.
- Écrire la ville: 850 ans d’archives et de mémoire urbaine at the Archives Nice Côte d’Azur , from September 10, 2026. Eight and a half centuries of the city in writing.
- OVNi, La Biennale de l’image en mouvement, across the city, November 13 to 29, 2026. Video and moving-image art in hotel rooms, galleries and public buildings.
MAMAC, the modern and contemporary art museum, is closed for renovation, and its programme is touring other venues around the city in the meantime.
St-Paul de Vence
- Ellsworth Kelly: Aux bords de l’eau at the Fondation Maeght , through November 15, 2026. The American painter’s flat, exact colour, in the season’s major show. €18.
- Peter Knapp: Le temps Courrèges in the Fondation’s Galerie Anny Courtade , through November 8, 2026. Fashion photography from the Courrèges years. Same ticket.
- Abstract Constructions and Jean Prouvé, Inventeur de Maisons at the Fondation CAB , both through October 31, 2026. Geometric abstraction alongside Prouvé’s prefabricated houses and furniture.
St-Tropez
- Henri Person: Une personnalité tropézienne notoire at the Musée de l’Annonciade , through October 4, 2026. A centenary tribute to the painter and his friendship with Signac. €6.
- 70 ans d’Et Dieu… créa la femme at the Musée de la Gendarmerie et du Cinéma , through March 7, 2027. Photographs, posters and costumes from the Bardot film that made the town. €5.
- De la caserne au musée… 10 ans déjà at the same museum , through December 31, 2026. Ten years since the old gendarmerie became a museum. €5.
- Paris Match: Hommage à Brigitte Bardot on Place Blanqui and Square de Lattre de Tassigny , through October 11, 2026. Fifty photographs of her career and her animal campaigning. Free, in the open air.
- La force de la douceur, through the streets and quays, through October 11, 2026. Monumental bronzes by five women sculptors, placed around the town. Free.
- Szczesny: Les Années Saint-Tropez at the Salle Jean Despas , through September 13, 2026. Stefan Szczesny’s bright Mediterranean figures and still lifes.
- MARPA and Rodrigue Hornez at the Lavoir Vasserot , September 10 to 16, 2026, followed by Christoff Debusschere, Peintre officiel de la Marine, September 24 to 30, 2026. The Lavoir changes artist almost every week, so it is always worth a look on the way past.
Vallauris
- Pascale Marthine Tayou at the Musée national Picasso , La Guerre et la Paix, through November 23, 2026. A project made for Picasso’s painted chapel by the Cameroonian artist. €6, and the same ticket gets you into the Musée Magnelli next door.
- Anton Prinner: Le ciel pour plafond at the Musée Magnelli , Musée de la Céramique, through September 28, 2026. Sculpture, Vallauris ceramics, prints and photographs. Same €6 ticket.
Vence
- Mémoires de l’eau at the Musée de Vence , Fondation Émile Hugues, through November 1, 2026. Six immersive sound and video installations on water as memory. €6.
Villefranche-sur-Mer
- L’Absurde et Le Rêve: Arne Quinze & Joana Vasconcelos at La Citadelle , through October 31, 2026. The first show the two artists have made together, built around Cocteau’s Villefranche. Free, and the fortress gardens are worth the walk on their own.
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