The Cantini Museum is home to one of the most beautiful French public collections dedicated to art from the first half of the twentieth century. The original building, a handsome townhouse built in 1694, was bequeathed to the city of Marseilles in 1916 by Jules Cantini. Since 1986, it has undergone extensive renovation and expansion work and reinforced its security infrastructure, allowing it to present important exhibitions. The collection's main focus is the period spanning from 1900 to 1960. It boasts a number of works emblematic of the movements that marked the history of modern art : fauvism (Derain, Camoin, Matisse, Chabaud), Cubism (Dufy, Laurens, Gleizes), Surrealism (Ernst, Masson, Arp, Brauner), the fifties (Fernandez, Bryen, Hantaï, Riopelle, de Staël), the sixties and the seventies (Debré, Estève, Asse, Tal Coat, Ubac). Among the museum's major acquisitions, there are also great figures who marked the 20th century art (Picasso, Kokoschka, Artaud, Giacometti, Bacon, Balthus, Dubuffet, Tàpies). To conclude, let us point out the noteworthy photography collection, of which the ensemble (photos by Germaine Krull, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Herbert Bayer, François kollar, Florence Henri) focusing on Marseille's famous Pont transbordeur is undoubtedly the jewel of the collection .