Musée Regards De Provence

I didn’t like it at all. Not the permanent exhibit and not the temporal exhibit. I also would say that 8.5€ is a bit overpriced compared to other activities that can be done in the city. There were very few people even if it was on Saturday. I guess the price is related to the small amount of visitors. I believe something more interesting can be done with this privileged space in the old port of Marseille.

The building's original purpose was as a station sanitaire or Marseille sanitary station, where people arriving from abroad by sea or air went through a disinfection, screening and vaccination process in a bid to fight the city's ever-present threat of epidemics. They had videos showing how everyone was off loaded, 1st class was treated better, all clothing removed, steamed, dried, x-rays were taken, medical procedures by physicians and everyone dusted with DDT. The sanitary station is a building located in Marseille, built between 1946 and 1947 for the direction of sanitary control at the borders, near the port, at the bottom of the Panier, facing the sea, between the cathedral of La Major and Fort Saint-Jeans. The building had been abandoned for some 40 years and was occupied by squatters when the Fondation acquired it in a lamentable state. Privately funded, the 6.5 million €uro restoration project was overseen by the Marseille architect Guy Daher. Once threatened with demolition, the station sanitaire is today a listed building. Sleek and very 1950s-looking yet also quite contemporary, this 1,115 square metre / 12,000 square foot space is a worthy companion to the two brand-new, ultra-modern museums just across the road, the Villa Méditerranée and the MuCEM.