In a daring and unconventional move, the Marseille Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (Mucem) has thrown open its doors to naked visitors, inviting them to shed their inhibitions ...

A huge golden statue of the Virgin Mary that has for more than a century watched over the French port city of Marseille and its seafarers is this summer to receive a gold-leaf facelift. The virgin ...

It offers arresting views of the whole city, too. This is my favourite Marseille museum, giving, as it does, contemporary coverage of the city's story. It is more coherently engrossing than the ...