Aix can legitimately claim the designation of city of Art and Culture thanks to its renowned International Opera Festival.

The cultural events which take place each year in the fields of dance, music and even cinema, bear witness to its cultural vocation, open to the world.

With 'Aix City Pass', you can visit 4 attractions at a reduced price and visit Cézanne's studio for free!!!

PUBLIC PRICE: 15 euros

TOUR OPERATOR SPECIAL PRICE: 13 euros

- Valid for 1 person

- For 5 days from the date of the first entry (one entry per site during those 5 days)

- The 'Aix City Pass' is sold at the Tourist Office, Cézanne's Studio and Jas de Bouffan

Includes:

-Tour of the city with a guide from the Tourist Office (according to calendar of tours offered by the Tourist Office)

- Tour of Cézanne's Studio (booking advised)

- Tour of the Jas de Bouffan property (booking advised)

- Entry to Granet Museum (if there is a temporary exhibition, a supplement shall be payable on site)

- Guided tour of the city centre on a mini-tram

Museums

TAPESTRY MUSEUM

28, Place des Martyrs de la Résistance - Palais de l'Archevêché
Tel : 33 (0)4 42 23 09 91
Rate and opening

Situated on the first floor of the old Archbishop's palace, the museum keeps a large collection of 17th and 18th century tapestries and the beautiful furniture of the Archbishop's rooms.
But beside the tapestry and upholstery sector,modern art has over the years,found an increasingly important place in the Museum,encompassing up-and-coming young artists to the world-famous ones. A specialised sector dedicated to theatrical art perpetuates the memory of the “International Festival of Lyrical Art”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

6, rue Espariat
Tel : 33 (0)4 42 27 91 27
Fax : 33 (0) 4 42 27 43 88
E-mail : museum-aix@worldonline.fr
Website : www.museum-aix-en-provence.org
Rate and opening

Installed in 1838,the museum possesses a fine collection of dinosaur eggs and bones (65 million years old) together with fish, insects and plants from the local areas. One of the rooms specialises in the prehistoric period.There are 2 500 stuffed birds in the reserves representing over 300 species.

MUSEE GRANET

Place Saint-Jean de Malte – Mazarin district
Tel: 33 (0)4 42 528 832 - Fax:33 (0)4 42 528 782
Rate and opening
Closed the 25 Dec., 1st Jan., 1st May

After four years of renovation, the Granet Museum reopened its doors in 2006, completely transformed and thus becoming one of the region’s most distinguished Fine Arts museums.
Its exhibition area has been enlarged from 700 to 4,000 sq.m and its interior design completely updated.

The “paintings”section and in particular the “French”collection will be presented in different units based around an artist, a particular piece of work,or a theme:
• the French Renaissance,
• the 15th Century around Puget,
• the 18th Century,a flourishing period in Aix,features two parts:an intimate part around portraits by Rigaud and Largillière; and an official part around three works of art from the Palais Comtal, including a two-sided painting by Dandré-Bardon (August punishing the defalcators),
•Granet,after Constantin, has a room devoted entirely to his work, showing just how important his work has been in the history of this museum,
• Ingres deserves a grand display with Jupiter and Thétis (neoclassical room),
•naturalist and academic painting from the 19th Century,
•with the donation of “Cézanne to Giacometti”, the Granet museum sees its focal point shift:19th Century painting around Giacometti, Bran van Velde, Nicolas de Staël, Mondrain, Tal Coat,etc..

MUSEE DU VIEIL AIX

17, rue Gaston de Saporta
Tel 33 (0)4 42 21 43 55
Fax 33 (0)4 42 96 52 76
Rate and opening

Estienne de Saint Jean's aristocratic 17th century mansion shows a large majority of its original decoration and furniture.
An art museum with popular traditional pieces and especially a collection of original wooden puppets.

FONDATION VASARELY

1 Av. Marcel Pagnol, Jas de Bouffan
Tel : 33 (0)4 42 20 01 09 - Fax : 33 (0)4 42 59 14 65
E-mail : fondation.vasarely@fondationvasarely.com
Website : www.fondationvasarely.com
Rate and opening

Erected in 1976, Vasarely’s Foundation proposes to discover its 42 "monumental integrations" on 1 500 sq.m. It represents the architectural and social project of Victor Vasarely, who wished to prove that art can be integrated to architecture and improve everyone’s surroundings.

The Foundation proposes all year long prestigious temporary exhibitions or events of international fame.

PAVILLON de VENDOME

32, rue Célony
Tel : 33 (0)4 42 21 05 78
Fax : 33 (0)4 42 23 57 75
Rate and opening

Built by Louis Mercoeur, Duke of Vendôme, the museum is surrounded by a beautiful and typical French Park.
Furniture, paintings, drawings and objects which reconstitute the life within the high society at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th. Front: doric, ionic and corinthian pilasters, ornamental sculptures.

MUSEE PAUL ARBAUD

2a, rue du 4 Septembre
Tel : 33 (0)4 42 38 38 95
Rate and opening

Meridional crokery, sculptures and paintings.
Library with written works from the 14th to the 20th century (the first collection of private papers from Provence).
Open every day from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. except Sunday, Monday et Bank Holidays.
The Library is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2.00 p.m.

LA CITE DU LIVRE - BOOK CITY

LIBRARY MEJANES
Espace culturel Méjanes - 8, 10, rue des Allumettes
13098 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 2
Tel : 33 (0)4 42 91 98 65 Fax : 33 (0)4 42 27 11 86
Website : www.citedulivre-aix.com

Ballet Preljocaj
Tel 33 (0)4 42 93 48 00
Fondation St John Perse
Espace culturel Méjanes, rue Est
Tel. 33 (0)4 42 91 98 85 - Fax 33 (0)4 42 27 11 86
E-mail : fondation.saint.john.perse@wanadoo.fr
Web : www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~wperse/

Since 1975 the foundation looks after all literature and diplomatic documents as well as information about Saint John Perse and co-edits all publications concerning him. Temporary exhibitions on St John Perse or writers in relation with him.
Open from Tuesday to Saturday (2 pm – 6 pm).

Vidéothèque Internationale d’Art Lyrique et de danse
(In the Library) Tel +33 (0)4 42 91 90 89
Fax +33 (0)4 42 91 98 64

The unique video library was created in 1991 for all types of poems, literature and music. It has a modern system for consulting the information and constitutes a library of numerous opera recordings, especially those of Aix-en-Provence opera festival. Collection of modern dance films, archives of the Preljocaj Ballet.

Les écritures croisées
Press room 1st floor
Tel 33 (0)4 42 26 16 85

Meeting of writers and yearly literary events as the "Fête du Livre" in autumn and "Livres en fête" in spring.

L'Institut de l'image
Tel 33 (0)4 42 26 81 82

The Institute suggests a repertoire of videos (which is linked to recent cultural events) as well as a selection of research videos.

Aix en Provence countryside