Explorer Marseille

Cosquer Méditerranée is a reproduction of the Cosquer Cave, a decorated prehistoric cave in the Calanques whose entrance lies 37 metres under the sea, revealed in 1991. Opened in 2022 in the Villa Méditerranée by the harbour, it takes visitors in small exploration modules along a 220-metre route past copies of the paintings and engravings of horses, bison, seals and penguins.

The Mucem, the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations, is a national museum opened in 2013 at the entrance to Marseille's Old Port. Its main building, a 72-metre cube wrapped in a lattice of fibre-reinforced concrete by Rudy Ricciotti, is linked by a footbridge to the 17th-century Fort Saint-Jean, and shows collections on Mediterranean history and cultures.