Musée International d'Art Naïf Anatole-Jakovsky, Nice

The Anatole Jakovsky Museum has only been part of the Nice landscape since 1982. It has slowly grown an international reputation, though, as a world-class center for the promotion of Naïve Art, a name given to artworks simple in both technique and subject matter, resulting in images drawn from the artist's imagination & spontaneity.

The institution used to be located in the old home of the famous perfumer Francois Coty. In 1930, Mr. and Mrs. Coty began a project to design something new for the location. In 1973, one of Coty’s children sold the building to the city of Nice, upon which the municipal authorities transformed it into the museum it is today.

The institution is the primary home of the art collection from Jakovsky but also houses the collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou. There are some beautiful statues in the front of the location that was designed by the famous Frederic Lanovsky.

The location gets around twenty thousand visitors a year currently. There is art on display here from 27 different countries. Included in the combined exhibition are the works of renowned masters, such as Grandma Moses, Henri Rousseau, and Seaphone Louis.