This private mansion built in 1694 by the 'compagnie du Cap Nègre' had been bought in 1709 by the family de Montgrand. They own it until 1801.
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Many owners succeeded one another ' le cercle des phocéens' remains more than half a century installed in 1836. Before being acquired by Jules Cantini, important marble worker who was involved in construction of differents kind of many civil and religious buildings in Marseille during the Second Empire.
Great armateur of Art , Jules Cantini donated it to the city in 1916 to be used as a museum for the art of our time.
This amazing cultural establishment in Marseille is is devoted to a...