Musée de paléontologie de Terra Amata

Nice · Alpes-Maritimes · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

A site museum located in Nice, the Terra Amata Museum of Prehistory is built on the paleolithic excavation site of the same name, discovered during digs that unearthed remains dating back approximately 400,000 years. The museum presents the ways of life of the region's earliest inhabitants, their stone tools (choppers, hand axes, bifaces), their habitats and their hunting practices. As France's first site museum to open, it received the Museum of the Year Award in 1977 and benefited from the label. The museography was entirely redesigned in 2016, incorporating audiovisual, digital and interactive devices to contextualize the archaeological collections with advances in prehistoric research, notably on fire domestication. The museum is currently closed for accessibility improvements and will welcome visitors again in autumn 2026.

Practical information

Address

25 Bd Carnot, 06000 Nice, France

Phone number

04 93 55 59 93

Official website

nice.fr

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Getting there

Nearest station

About 10 min walk from tram Port Lympia.