Musee Matisse, Nice

To Henri Matisse I give 5 stars. To the Henri Matisse's museum I give it 3. The museum is in a very nice location uphill and there's a lovely atmosphere on the outside. On the inside the people who would welcome you speak little to no English so we had to gesture and half-speak french our way in. More than half of the captions underneath or on the side of the stunning sculptures and paintings were in French only, so it became pretty exhausting very soon for us - Italian speakers - to understand what we were looking at. There were only a few qr codes here and there which took you to English audios describing the artworks and their history but there were just too little to appreciate the virtual guide. The setting is very nice and I liked the simplicity yet elegance of the interior design and furniture; I found this museum to be beautiful overall, I just can't get over how much of an outsider I felt just for not speaking French. I don't think there ever was a time I went to an Italian public museum and found Italian-only descriptions.

Very interesting conversation with the security lady about profiling visitors as well as her favorite Hockney flower painting. I like the I Pod art. Loved the person who did the lightening as well as the persons choice of fragrances for each room. I forget that there is at least over a hundred people involved . It rained today so it was perfect to go to the Matisse.