The “Musée Marabini-Martac” was inaugurated at the former Hotel des Ambassaseurs”
The Museum
There is a new museum on the Côte d'Azur thanks to a couple of Italian patrons in the former Hotel des Ambassaseurs in Menton. The Musée Marabini-Martac, opened earlier this summer in Menton. The project resulting from the renovation of the historic Hotel des Amabassadeurs, a building designed in 1865 by Gustave Eiffel in the Belle Epoque style, at number 3 Rue Partouneaux, is partly Italian. It is in fact the hotel's Italian owners, Liana Marabini-Martac and Mauro Marabini, who decided to convert the building into a museum to exhibit more than 900 works including paintings, sculptures, photographs, books and manuscripts by artists and writers. Collectors and patrons, both authors of several books and articles of a cultural nature, the Marabini couple already have several “artistic” experiences behind them: creators of the Sacred Contemporary Art Biennial (BACS), which takes place every two years in Menton (next edition in October 2025) and in Villa Tignano in Emilia, gave birth a few years ago to the private museum Art.
The exhibition dedicated to food
With an exhibition dedicated to food in the history of art, the Musée Marabini-Martac opens under the supervision of a committee of experts consisting of art historians, gallery owners, journalists and world-famous museum directors. “Food in art through the ages”It proposes a journey back in time through the works of artists who have grappled with a theme much represented in history: from Guido Reni to Giorgio Morandi's still lifes, via William Turner, Alexander Calder, Salvador Dalì, Lucio Fontana and Banksy.
