Marc Chagall National Museum

This guide to the Marc Chagall National Museum in Nice starts with a painted harpsichord lid in the concert hall and works back to why it's there: Chagall's 1966 gift to France of seventeen paintings, the Biblical Message cycle drawn from Genesis, Exodus, and the Song of Songs. It follows Andre Malraux's decision to build a museum around them, and Chagall's own insistence on adding an auditorium filled with his stained glass. Sit in that auditorium a moment and take in the blue light of his Creation windows.