Musée Grobet-Labadié

Grobet-Labadié museum houses, in a beautifuk XIXth century private mansion owning rich collections belonging to a merchant family from the Marseille bourgeoisie, at its heigh after 1848.
After Louis Grobet's death in 1917, Marie Grobet bequeathed the private mansion and all the collection it housed to the city of Marseille.
Reflecting the tastes of a refined bourgeois society, fascinated and seduced by all forms of art, the French collections assembled in the second half of the 19th century admirably illustrate the artistic electicism of the " enlightened " connoisseurs of that time.
The XVIII th century occupied a major part in collections of the museum however High middle age, the Rebirth and XIX centrury are also represented.

Guided public tours on saturdays and sundays at 3 pm.
On appointment for groups.
Worshops for children during holidays.
Library opened to public, on wednesdays and fridays all day long .
On thursday afternoons on appointment.
Museum welcome scolarship groups for on reservations.

Surface permanent exhibitions: 550
Surface temporary exhibition : 0