The Museum of Asian arts in nice, small, local collection is quite modest. But interesting to visit it, if only because the Museum building in the Park FeNi was built by the famous Japanese architect Kenzo Tange.

The idea to open a Museum of Asian art expressed at the time, mayor Jacques Medecin man, who in the history of nice, colourful and at times controversial page. Be that as it may, the citizens elected him mayor five times. In the nineties under the impression from the works of the French sculptor Pierre-Yves Tramua, many exhibited in Japan, the mayor decided to create a nice Museum dedicated to the art of China, Japan, India and Cambodia. The man is strong, independent and impulsive, he was invited to design the Museum of the great Kenzo Tange.

The architect created the artificial lake in the Park FeNi quite unusual, easy and light building, which in itself is a work of Oriental art. The architect used the two basic geometric shape having a sacred significance in Japanese culture: square (symbol of earth) and a circle (symbol of heaven). Four cubes of white marble surrounded by the same white marble rotunda, topped by a glass pyramid. Each of the cubes contains halls devoted to the art of one country.

The Museum was opened in 1998. Today, there are about two hundred exhibits which are of undeniable historical value pair gilded statue of white-tailed deer XVII-XVIII century from Central Tibet (they symbolize the first sermon of the Buddha), lacquered figure of a meditating Amida Nyorai (Japan, Edo period, XVIII century), magnificent funerary statuette of a kneeling woman (China, the era of Han, (III century). Good Japanese lacquered wooden vessel for tea (the end of XV – beginning of XVI century), Japanese ceramic horse VI century, Indian fabric eighteenth century hand-painted, depicting a young God Krishna.

In the Museum you can get acquainted not only with the static exhibits in a special pavilion regularly features a classic Japanese tea ceremony, presentations of Chinese tea traditions. All explanations are given, however, in the French language.