Explorer Aix-en-Provence

Caumont Centre d'Art occupies the Hôtel de Caumont, an 18th-century mansion in the Mazarin quarter of Aix-en-Provence, begun in 1715 to plans by Robert de Cotte. Culturespaces restored it and opened it in 2015; visitors see the period salons, the stairway and the garden, and two temporary exhibitions a year devoted to major painters.

The Pavillon Vendôme is a 17th-century pavilion in Aix-en-Provence, built from 1665 for Louis de Mercœur, Duke of Vendôme, with a façade of three classical orders and two carved atlantes at the door. The collector Henri Dobler left it to the city in 1941; today it is a municipal museum with period rooms and art exhibitions, set in a French formal garden.

The Musée Granet is the art and archaeology museum of Aix-en-Provence, opened in 1838 in the former priory of the Knights of Malta beside the church of Saint-Jean-de-Malte. It is named after the painter François Marius Granet, who left it his collection in 1849, and shows European paintings, sculpture, works by Cézanne and finds from the Entremont oppidum.

Cézanne's Studio is the house on the Lauves hill north of Aix-en-Provence where Paul Cézanne worked from 1902 until his death in 1906. The upper-floor studio, lit by a large glazed wall, keeps his easels, furniture and the objects that appear in his last still lifes; the house stands in a garden of olive and fig trees and is run by the city as a museum.