Nouveau Musée National de Monaco

The Nouveau Musée National de Monaco showcases the Principality of Monaco's heritage and presents contemporary art through temporary exhibitions at two venues: the Villa Paloma and the Villa Sauber.

Villa Paloma
 56, boulevard du Jardin-Exotique, 98000 Monaco
+377 98 98 48 60

Villa Sauber
17 avenue Princesse-Grace, 98000 Monaco
+ 377 98 98 19 62
www.nmnm.mc

Open every day from 10 am to 6 pm (11 am to 7 pm in July and August) except 1 January, 1 May, 4 Grand Prix days, 19 November and 25 December.

Guided tours, workshops for youth and families (booking required): public@nmnm.mc 

The NMNM collection 

The collections held at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco comprise more than 10,000 works, mainly produced between the 19th and 21st centuries. It’s a diverse and multi-faceted collection, presented across several different fields: the Arts, Science and Technology, Performance and Scenography, and Territories and Landscapes (Borders and Otherness). An important part of the collection comes from the Musée des Beaux-arts at Villa Sainte Cécile, which from 1935 to 1958 exhibited sculptures, ceramics, Vue Optique, paintings, drawings, and prints relating to the Principality of Monaco and its surroundings, including neo-classical works by François-Joseph and Jean-François Bosio (Monegasque sculptors and engravers).
                 
The collection was further developed in the late 1960s with a donation of more than 500 nineteenth-century dolls and mechanical automata, bequeathed by Madeleine de Galéa's grandson to Prince Rainier III and exhibited at Villa Sauber between 1972 and 2008. Meanwhile, the collection has been enriched by works linked to Monaco and the surrounding region, including works by artists such as Claude Monet, Kees Van Dongen and works by Léon Bakst, Natalia Gontcharova, Michel Larionov, Pavel Tchelitchev, Alexandre Benois, Naum Gabo, André Derain, Jean Cocteau, Christian Bérard and Serge Lifar, associated with the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo. Since 2002, the museum has been home to 4,000 costumes and 400 set designs from the Monte-Carlo Opera, acquired from the Société des Bains de Mer. The museum's collections also include monumental works by Guy Lartigue, Alexander Calder and Victor Vasarely, sculptures by Anish Kapoor, Claire Fontaine and Michel Blazy, as well as many others displayed in gardens throughout the Principalty.

Following the opening of Villa Paloma in 2010, the collection has taken a new turn with a focus on acquisitions of modern and contemporary art from international artists such as Lucio Fontana, Ettore Spalletti, Brassaï, Christian Boltanski, Bruno Munari, Alberto Magnelli, Valerio Adami, Luigi Ghirri, Andy Warhol, but also Mark Dion, Nick Mauss, Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA), Camille Henrot, Bertrand Lavier, Jeppe Hein, Francesco Vezzoli, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rebecca Horn, Joan Jonas, Shimabuku, Steve Mc Queen, João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, Latifa Echakhch, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Robert Barry, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth, Yto Barrada, Hans Schabus, Saâdane Afif, Brice Dellsperger or Jochen Lempert.

These works not only respond to today's major issues but also echo the sentiments of older collections. In keeping a desire to ensure the museum remains dedicated to Monaco's artistic heritage, the collection reveals both the specific characteristics of the Monegasque territory while being receptive to the rest of the world. Please note: these works are not permanently on display.