Marseille ( mar-SAY, French: [maʁsɛj] (listen), locally [maχˈsɛjə] (listen); also spelled in English as Marseilles; Occitan: Marselha [maʀˈsejɔ, -ˈsijɔ]) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the historical province of Provence, it is located on the coast of the Gulf of Lion, part of the Mediterranean Sea, near the mouth of the Rhône river. Its inhabitants are called Marseillais.
Marseille is the second most populated city in France, with 870,731 inhabitants in 2019 (Jan. census) over a municipal territory of 241 km2 (93 sq mi). Together with its suburbs and exurbs, the Marseille metropolitan area, which extends over 3,972 km2 (1,534 sq mi), had a population of 1,873,270 at the Jan. 2019 census, the third most populated in France after those of Paris and Lyon. The cities of Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, and 90 suburban municipalities have formed since 2016 the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis, an indirectly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of wider metropolitan issues, with a population of 1,898,561 at the Jan. 2019 census.
Monday | Closed |
Tuesday | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM |
Wednesday | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM |
Thursday | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM |
Friday | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM |
Saturday | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM |
Sunday | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM |
Nikola Spasojević | Mar 18, 2018
Small museum showing excavated ancient Roman warehouse with giant amphoras. If you are interested in archeology, you must visit it (if you can find it...). Free entrance.
Chris Moore | Apr 15, 2018
Free access and good exhibits. Staff not so interested.
Conrad Carpenter | Nov 2, 2017
Free, interesting and easy to walk to from the vieux port. Recommended.
brawnhilda | Sep 4, 2017
Free on Sundays, nice supplement to the Museum of the History or Marseille; no English
Phil Smith | May 30, 2017
Good little museum, the only problem was that there were no translations from French. But it is free to enter
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