Musée international d'art naïf Anatole Jakovsky

One of the first pictures to look for in this villa on the Fabron hillside above Nice is by Henri Rousseau, the Paris toll clerk who taught himself to paint. His portrait of Frumence Biche, a friend shown in civilian dress, hangs among other familiar names of naive painting: Séraphine de Senlis, the housekeeper who painted flowers and fruit, Louis Vivin, André Bauchant and the American Grandma Moses.

The collection is the gift of Anatole Jakovsky, a Paris art critic who spent much of his life writing about self-taught painters, and his wife Renée. By the early 1990s it numbered about 600 works from 27 countries, and it follows naive art from the 18th century to the present day.

The house came first. The Château Sainte-Hélène belonged to the perfumer François Coty from 1922, was remodelled for his former wife Yvonne in 1930, and was sold to the city by their daughter Christiane in 1973. The museum opened there on 5 March 1982.