The Musée Grobet-Labadié is a museum in

Marseilles Marseille (; ; see below) is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean S ...

, housed in a 19th-century

hôtel particulier () is the French term for a grand urban mansion, comparable to a Townhouse (Great Britain), British townhouse. Whereas an ordinary (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a ...

owned by the family whose collection it displays. In 1919, Marie Grobet, daughter of the Marseilles businessman and politician , gave the family art collection and hôtel particulier to the city. The museum was inaugurated on November 3, 1925 by Mayor Siméon Flaissières and finally opened its doors to the public in January 1926. The museum obtained the “Musée de France” label in 2003 and was listed as a historical monument by order of June 15, 2022.

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