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The Musée Matisse is the City of Nice's museum of Henri Matisse, who lived and worked in Nice from 1917 until his death in 1954. Opened in 1963 in the Villa des Arènes, a red 17th-century Genoese villa on the Cimiez hill beside the Roman ruins, it holds paintings, drawings, cut-outs, nearly all his sculptures and objects from his studio.

The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild is a pink seaside villa on the isthmus of Cap Ferrat, built between 1907 and 1912 for Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild to designs by the architect Aaron Messiah. Its rooms hold her collections of furniture, paintings and porcelain, and nine themed gardens surround it. She left the estate to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1934.