The building is the center of arts "Malmaison" on the Croisette - like a shard of the past. On this site there are modern waterfront home, and "Malmaison" stands out among them the architecture of the XIX century, and small size.

His story is interesting. Once it was a luxury "Grand Hotel", built in 1863 by architects Viana and Blondel. The building "Malmaison", which placed the casino and tea room, the entrance to the hotel complex. The hotel, popular among European aristocracy, lived to see the end of the fifties of the XX century, but was demolished after. In 1963 it was restored. However, you can say so only conditionally - architecture has changed, the current four-star "Grand Hotel" looks boring. Although the comfort he certainly provides a hotel garden overlooking the waterfront and adjacent to the "Malmaison" it looks like an oasis.

With the demolition of the hotel remained intact only the building "Malmaison." In the early seventies, the city bought the building to arrange it in a new exhibition space. Renovated in 1983 and restoration in 1993 arts center "Malmaison" became well-known on the French Riviera.

This annual exhibition of the greatest artists of the last century - such as Matisse and Picasso, who sought inspiration in the French Riviera. In 2013, Picasso's granddaughter Marina gave more than a hundred works of his great grandfather for the exhibition, which had a great response. Art Centre exhibits the work of contemporary artists. Public interest has caused a retrospective exhibition of the famous French photographer André Villers, great filming - Picasso, Chagall, Le Corbusier, Dali, Fellini ... It turned out to be spectacular recent exhibition of the artist Patrick Moya Nice "Moya civilization" and the Italian sculptor Roberto Barney "Nothing for nothing."

Arts Center forms its own collection, which already includes photographs of Lucien Clergue, André Villiers, Lee Miller and other contemporary artists, as well as sculptures and paintings.

From November 2013 to April 2014 in the "Malmaison" will show prints and etchings by Georges Braque - one of the founders of Cubism.