Mougins Museum of Classical Art

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The MACM, the Mougins Museum of Classical Art was a private museum inaugurated in June 2011 in the village of Mougins in the Alpes-Maritimes department, France. In August 2023, the MACAM closed to make way for a new museum, the Female Artists of Mougins Museum (FAMM), which opened in June 2024. The museum's director was Leisa Paoli.

Concept of the Mougins Museum: Ancient artworks used to be presented with paintings, drawing, and sculptures by artists such as Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, Marc Quinn, Antony Gormley, and Damien Hirst, among many others. The collection also included works by artists who spent time in Mougins, such as Francis Picabia, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, and Pablo Picasso (who spent the final 12 years of his life in Mougins village). The museum embraced the visionary concept of displaying ancient, neo-classical, modern and contemporary art side by side to show the pervasive and lashing influence of the ancient world. Thus works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Damien Hirst and others were included in the museum along their ancient sources...