Rain falls rather rarely in the Alpes-Maritimes, but it can play spoilsport and disrupt your stay. What if the rainy weather offered you the opportunity to have other experiences in Nice? A visit to a museum or a monument is an option. Do the city’s monuments already hold no secrets for you? You can also go to a shopping centre, go to the cinema or the theatre, have lunch or dinner in a restaurant, solve the riddles of an escape game… The choice is yours! You will find a vast choice of activities that take place indoors, to be shared as a couple, with friends or with the family.
When it rains in Nice, you can push open the door of a museum. The metropolis has more than a dozen of them, with establishments that cover all themes! Do you like art? The MAMAC, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, invites you to discover the artistic effervescence of the 1950s to today. Housed in a magnificent mansion on the Promenade des Anglais, the Musée Masséna presents the cultural and artistic wealth of the city of Nice, from the time of its incorporation into France to the end of the Belle Epoque. The Musée des Beaux-Arts has an extraordinary collection by the painter and poster artist Jules Chéret. Another must-see is the Marc Chagall National Museum, dedicated to the work of this immeasurable artist. Are you passionate about history? Located on an excavation site, the Nice / Cimiez Archaeology Museum is devoted to the city’s ancient history. The Terra Amata Museum invites you to travel even further back in time, to meet the first inhabitants of Nice, who lived on this land in prehistoric times. The Museum of Asian Arts presents collections relating to India, Japan, China, Southeast Asia, and Buddhism.
The city of Nice is also home to cinemas, theatres and concert halls. You can also escape the rain by watching a film, attending a play, ballet, concert or show. Are you looking for family entertainment that can also be enjoyed in the rain? Some rooms are accessible to children, and can be explored with the family, while other enigmas plunge you into terrifying adventures, reserved for adults.
What if you made the most out of the rain to embark on a shopping trip in Nice? There are many shops in the shopping centres and streets, where you will find clothes, shoes, fashion accessories, decorative objects and many other surprises.
