Musée de la Castre (Castre Museum)

Based in Cannes, France, Musée de la Castre is a museum that presents collections belonging to the city of Cannes’s primitive art, Mediterranean antiquities, music instruments of the world in Asia, Africa, Oceania, America and landscape paintings of the nineteenth century. It is situated at the top of the hill of Suquet in Cannes, inside what remains of the medieval castle of the monks of Lérins.

Its origins dates back to 1877 and was then located in the Town Hall. Its first collection was gifts to the city by noble Dutch, Baron Lycklama, who was a cultivated traveller. The Baron Lycklama collection consists of his own collection of antiques Mediterranean and ethnographic objects purchased at the Middle East and Central Asia and reported in Europe. The collection also consists of items collected by traveller Edmond de Ginoux de la Coche (convened before 1850 and acquired in 1874 by Lycklama), that includes primitive art and ethnology Oceanic and pre-Columbian art .

Its current presentation focuses on four sets namely the primitive arts and ethnology through the Himalayas, the Arctic, the pre-Columbian America and Oceania.
Musée de la Castre is open to members of the public from Tuesday to Sunday at 10h00am until 13h00pm and again from 14h00pm until 17h00pm.