Musée Granet

We went to see the Sezanne exhibition. It was really nice but unfortunately totally overcrowded although they are already limiting access with time slots. It also would have been great to understand more about the father -son relationship - the explanations were too short/ shallow and seemed contradictory at times.

The Cezanne exhibit is fantastic and well worth the price! They've brought together a fantastic collection and traced it though his life to show the evolution of style and use of light. The price includes the rest of the collection, and it was well organized to get in with timed entry, keeping it not too busy inside. If you're lucky enough - catch it before Oct 16 :).

An extraordinary Cezanne exhibition covering his early to later works. Tickets only available via online portal and do expect a crowd- but it is a must if in Aix. The museum’s smaller permanent exhibition is also worth a (less crowded) visit.

The temporary exhibition about Cezanne was fabulous however the organisation of the museum leaves huuuuuge space for improvement. The tickets can not be bought in the museum even if the next available slot is in the next 30 minutes. You have to buy online or in tourist office which is 700 meters away. The most ridiculous solution I’ve ever encountered in any other museum. You’re advised to come 30 minutes before just to stand in the queue. Instead of letting people enter on small groups they just put a mass of people to enter small space of the exhibition all together to make the small rooms super crowded. No logic at all. And the worst out of it is the stroller unfriendly policy! Nowhere at the stage of buying tickets online you learn strollers are not allowed. You learn it when entering museum. Parent must carry the child all the time. As I was nowhere before made aware of it I didn’t bring any baby carrier. They finallly made exception for me after consulting their head of security 🤯 the museum has lifts inside but first you need to make two round of stairs in front to enter the building which is a tough barrier for people with strollers or with wheelchairs. This all happens in France and touristic town! Shame and the difficulties they made for people with reduced mobility and first of all not informing the customer on the stage of buying ticket just spoils the whole experience. The staff also is not very helpful as this is a bother to have reduced mobility person as a visitor. Only one woman on the lower floor was actually nice. The rest was behaving as this is such a nuisance. Total disappointment and I’ve been to hundreds of museums before. 2 stars as the exhibition was first class but organisationally it’s a HORRIBLE place.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t see the Cézanne permanent collection since it wasn’t available during my visit in May 2025. But the rest of the artworks were really cool and worth seeing. The layout of the museum was clear and easy to follow — you won’t get lost. A great museum experience overall!

The museum houses permanent collection and temporary exhibitions, in our case Cezanne a Jas de Bouffan 2025. The temporary exhibition was nice, the permanent one was fine but didn't entice me that much.

It has a big Cezanne exhibition on which was good with a lot of his work sharing the same space for the first time such as the skulls, the bathers and his recreated studio with the four seasons. Big queues to get in and you must book a ticket online

The Cezanne exhibition in the summer of 2025 was beautifully presented and extremely well organised. This is the overwhelming reason I wanted to visit the museum. However, the permanent collection did not inspire me so much and the floor with the modern art section was closed and will be closed until October. Whilst the exhibition was 5 stars, my following comments drop a star and they are based on the organisation and feeling given over to me about the museum. I paid full price and I do not believe this is a fair price for this type of gallery compared to others I have seen throughout France and elsewhere in similar European cities, especially when one of their major sections is closed. It does not encourage people to see great art when they visit a beautiful city like Aix. This is particularly true of younger people unless they can take advantage of a cheaper ticket. Arrival organisation of the visit: There is no ticket office at the gallery. I was told I could reserve a ticket online or walk to the tourist office, whilst close by, this is an inconvenience. I reserved my ticket online and it was a complicated and difficult process. The first message on entering the website was "Pour des raisons de forte affluence, les réservations peuvent être momentanément perturbées. Dans ces cas là, merci de réessayer ultérieurement. " In English, it was translated to something like the connection may fail and please be patient as it is overloaded. This was confusing and from what I was told from a person at an information point, this message is always visible. The process of booking a ticket online was unfriendly with many pages to scroll down to reach the point of booking. Regarding the entry to the building: the space taken up by security looks and feels unpleasant and unwelcoming. The grandeur of the security is intimidating. I hope that in the future someone will make the security more subtle and include a ticket office or improve what is already there.

Make a point of going to this museum to see the Cezanne paintings. There is usually a temporary exhibition of other artists.

This place is quiet, with a fun basement. Enjoy the art, although nothing close to the Louvre. You can spend an hour here, but you might not find too much. The works are spread out over twenty centuries, with some modern and some classical.

We enjoyed the collection here and the layout of the museum. We are not art connoisseurs so I cannot attest to the quality of the works, but we enjoyed both the museum itself and the work in the chapel. In fact, the architectural elements in the chapel were beautiful, and I was allowed to very carefully take a photo of only the ceiling! We were amused to see that the upcoming visiting exhibition is from our own area of the world and belongs to someone we had met on occasion.

You can see originals by Aix's native son Cezanne, by Picasso, Paul Klee, Van Gogh and many others recommendable! (Particularly on a rainy day when Aix is not soooo attractive)

The museum is terrible.They really don't know how to handle a group of twenty people.We wait outside for at least an hour outside. And gave us lots of wrong directions. Really don't recommend a large group to visit.