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Marseille Museums and Galleries Walk

Marseille Museums and Galleries Walk

Marseille · France

7 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Marseille by way of seven museums and galleries, beginning with the art-filled Musée Cantini manor and continuing to collections rooted in the city’s ancient port and Mediterranean culture. You’ll encounter Roman archaeology at the Musée des Docks romains, regional art at Musée Regards de Provence, and the immersive prehistoric world of Cosquer Méditerranée. The walk also brings you to the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations and the Old Charity Center, where Marseille’s wider cultural story unfolds indoors. End at the Musée Grobet-Labadié manor for a closer look at a richly assembled historic collection and a satisfying final museum stop.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 7. The rest are in the app.

  1. Musée Cantini

    Musée Cantini

    A coral-trading mansion that became Marseille’s home for modern art

  2. Musée des Docks romains

    Musée des Docks romains

    A Roman warehouse preserved in place, with giant wine jars and a thousand years of Marseille’s seaborne trade.

  3. Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations

    Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations

    A museum where Mediterranean history meets a building of stone, water, wind, and concrete lace.

  4. 1 more stop on this walk, in the app
  5. Cosquer Méditerranée

    Cosquer Méditerranée

    A painstakingly recreated prehistoric cave that Marseille could never safely open to the public.

  6. Musée Regards de Provence

    Musée Regards de Provence

    A contemporary art museum inside Marseille’s former port sanitary station

  7. La Vieille Charité

    La Vieille Charité

    Old Charity Center, a museum in Marseille, France

  8. Stop 7

  9. 1 more stop in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

1 more stop in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 7 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

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  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

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  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

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  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.