Wednesday, 10-July-2024



Driving to museums is cool and all, but you know what’s even cooler? Walking approximately 120m (just under 400ft) to an art museum! A combination Art / History museum!

Not art history, that is to say. But a museum that showcases both art and history. Cassis is a small town, okay? The town museum isn’t super extensive, just roll with it.


And… I’ll be frank, here, the museum is clearly underfunded. I’m not saying that I could do better, but… as far as town museums go, this one didn’t quite reach the benchmark of “this museum showcases at least the summary of the town’s wikipedia page”.

It was neat, though, don’t get me wrong! Just… left me wanting, in terms of actual content.

What was there, then? Well – It was two stories; the first one being some interesting artifacts that had been recovered from the Mediterranean surrounding Cassis, and the second being paintings by Jacques Troupel. The artifacts were mainly Amphorae, the types of large stoneware jugs that were used in Greek and Roman times. The paintings were mainly “fire paintings”, where Jacques would paint with flammable material, and then light it to produce the interesting flame-scoring patterns.

It was neat, definitely… but I’ll still add a quick link to Wikipedia for those of my readers interested in the more detailed history of the town.


Link = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassis