# Musée Franciscain

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The Musée Franciscain occupies former convent buildings within the Cimiez Monastery complex in Nice, France. The museum follows Franciscan life in Nice from the thirteenth century. Its collection includes paintings, sculptures, engravings, illuminated manuscripts, old books, and objects connected with the order. These works reflect Saint Francis of Assisi’s spiritual and social message. The surrounding complex brings together Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption church, a sixteenth-century cloister, gardens, and a cemetery. The church contains three paintings by Louis Bréa. They depict a Pietà, a Crucifixion, and a Deposition, alongside a large gilded wooden altarpiece. The monastery gardens overlook Nice and the sea. The cemetery includes the graves of Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, and Nobel laureate Roger Martin du Gard. The entire monastery complex has historical monument status. The museum and complex reveal religious, artistic, and architectural layers from several periods, including nineteenth-century neo-Gothic features. The Musée Franciscain is listed as wheelchair accessible. The original chapel appears in records from 1010, while Franciscan control of the site began in 1546. The monastery gardens once served as vegetable plots.

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