Museum of modern and contemporary art in nice is quite young – it opened in 1990. However, plans to create a similar Museum was built in the middle of the twentieth century.

The first project of remaking already existing gallery was supported by Henri Matisse, but life was not realized. Then it was supposed to attach to the Historical Museum in the Palais Massena modern wing, but the project was abandoned, but the place appeared Parking. However, the idea was in the air – after the success of the French art movement "New realism", it became clear that the Museum of modern art needs, and it is in nice (here was born one of the founders of the new realism Yves Klein).

The Museum was created with financial support from the state. Architects Yves Boyard and Henri Vidal has developed an unusual building project. It consists of four thirty-metre high towers, whose smooth shiny facades of Carrara marble with no Windows. Towers connected by glass walkways. Nine exhibition rooms with a total area of 4 thousand square meters are located on three levels: on the first house temporary exhibitions on the second and third permanent collection.

Stored here represent different currents of avant-garde artistic creation, from the 1960s onwards. Of course, a wide choice of new realists – Yves Klein (the Museum has twenty of his works), Cesar, Christo, Francois Dufrene, Gerard Deschamps, and many others. Exhibited works of the pillars of American pop art – Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana and abstract painters Kenneth Noland, Larry Ponsa, Frank Stella, Olivier Mosse, Martin Barr. From the minimalists here is, for example, Sol Le Witt and Richard Serra. In addition, here one can admire the work of the fauves German and Italian avant-garde artists, as well as examples of ironic and naive art, comics, graffiti.

Even if the tourist does not feel a special love for modern art, it still worth to visit this free Museum in order to rise to the top. Terraces on the roofs of the towers always attract visitors. There is a small pretty garden, but it's not only that: with terraces opening out to magnificent views of mountains, town and sea.