Current exhibitions | Marseille Tourism

Downtown exhibitions

Oceans

March 22, 2025 > July 13, 2025
Natural History Museum
The exhibition, designed in partnership with OSU Pythéas, AMU and CNRS, takes visitors on an eight-stop journey to discover the seas and oceans, highlighting their crucial importance for the planet, their wealth of resources and the threats they face.
Find out more about the Oceans exhibition

Green Souls – When art confronts the Anthropocene

February 8, 2025 > June 1, 2025
Friche La Belle de Mai – The Tower
The exhibition explores the impact of the Anthropocene on artistic creation, revealing how our “green souls” are rethinking our relationship with living things in the face of contemporary ecological challenges. Through a sensitive and aesthetic approach, it highlights new representations of the world, between environmental awareness, eco-anxiety and the quest for new ecosophical models, reinventing our relationship with bios and the tensions of global warming.
Find out more about the “Âmes vertes – Quand l’art affronte l’anthropocène” exhibition

C’est pas bête. Animal representation in collections

November 13 2024 > July 26 2026
Préau des Accoules – Children’s Museum
This exhibition explores the richness of bestiary throughout art history, highlighting the place of the animal, real or imaginary, in different cultures and eras. Combining works and objects from the collections of the Musées de Marseille, this immersive tour invites visitors to observe, discuss and experiment, through workshops, games and special events, to better understand the symbolism of animals and their impact on our collective imagination.
Find out more about the “C’est pas bête” exhibition

Back

October 18 2024 > March 16 2025
Mucem
The exhibition explores the question of migration in the Mediterranean, with a focus on the theme of return, sometimes impossible or diverted, due to borders, wars or politics. Through objects, works of art and personal accounts, it examines the different experiences of return, mixing dreams, memories and realities, while drawing on a survey carried out in several Mediterranean countries.
Find out more about the exhibition Revenir

The Hip Years – Bernard Plossu

October 3 2024 > March 23 2025
Musée Regards de Provence
The exhibition “Les années Hip – Bernard Plossu” at the Musée Regards de Provence in Marseille retraces the photographer’s discovery of California in 1966. He captures the hustle and bustle of San Francisco and the wild beauty of Big Sur, a refuge for early environmentalists and opponents of the Vietnam War.
Find out more about the exhibition “The Hip Years – Bernard Plossu”.

Right in the millet!

July 9, 2024 > July 9, 2025
Marseille Natural History Museum
The “En plein dans le mil !” exhibition at the Marseilles Natural History Museum explores the importance of millet, an essential cereal in the world diet, often overlooked in Europe. Part of the permanent “Terre d’évolution” trail, this mini-sequence “In the news” highlights its history, uses and role in today’s agricultural and food challenges.
Find out more about the “En plein dans le Mil” exhibition

Marseille 1900-1943. The bad reputation

February 9 2024 > December 31 2025
Deportation Memorial
The exhibition shows how an accumulation of preconceived ideas about Marseille was used to justify extreme actions during the Occupation, in a context of Nazi propaganda. It sheds light on the vision of the city as a place of disorder and threat, serving as a pretext for violent repression targeting its inhabitants, particularly marginalized and resistant populations.
Find out more about the exhibition Marseille 1900-1943. The bad reputation

Popular?

December 13 2023 > December 31 2026
Mucem
This exceptional collection brings together the historical holdings of the Musée national des arts et traditions populaires, the European collections of the Musée de l’Homme and those acquired since the early 2000s, with a view to opening up to the Mediterranean and the contemporary world. The general tour takes visitors through a series of major categories borrowed from the vocabulary of the history of art and technology.
Find out more about the Populaire exhibition

More off-center exhibitions

Infinitely Blue

March 07, 2025 > February 15, 2026
Château Borély, Musée des Arts décoratifs, de la Faïence et de la Mode
The Musée Borély exhibition highlights the importance of blue through the centuries, from its marginal place in Antiquity to its triumph in the Age of Enlightenment, via its poetic role with the Romantics and its industrial boom with blue jeans. Through works from the museum’s collections and those of other Marseilles-based institutions, the exhibition explores the color’s essential presence in earthenware, graphic arts, jewelry and fashion, including creations by leading fashion houses and Mediterranean labels. Associated with the sea and the history of the Mediterranean, blue reveals its symbolic and aesthetic evolution, testifying to cultural and social changes over time.
Find out more about the Infiniment Bleu exhibition

Plastic Butcher – Anita Molinero

october 26, 2024 > march 30, 2025
Musée d’Art Contemporain [mac]
The “Plastic Butcher” exhibition is an artistic manifesto in which Anita Molinero, through some fifty works sculpted by brutal and irreversible gestures, blends humor, anger and the transformation of materials to the limits of formlessness.
Find out more about the Plastic Butcher exhibition

Michel Gondry’s amateur film factory

July 03, 2024 > April 27, 2025
Château de la Buzine
As in the film “Soyez sympas, rembobinez” with Jack Black and Mos Def, the Usine de Films Amateurs invites you to create a film from A to Z in just 3 hours, with no training required. You’ll have access to all the sets and equipment needed to write, shoot and direct your own film, and you’ll leave with your work in hand.
Find out more about the Michel Gondry exhibition

Chez Nos voisins

Steve Mccurry Rangoon Burma Current Myanmar 1994 70x100cm Steve Mccurry In Partnership With Orion57 Curator Biba Giacchetti

Steve McCurry – Views

November 8 2024 > March 23 2025
Hôtel de Caumont – Aix-en-Provence

Steve McCurry’s exhibition at Caumont-Centre d’art presents 80 of his most emblematic works, including shots never before seen in France, retracing 40 years of his career and travels around the world. It offers a thematic tour revealing his humanistic view of humanity, between tradition and modernity, with a special tribute to the monsoon.
Find out more about the “Steve McCurry: Regards” exhibition