It’s fragile, feminine, nourished by intuition, ambiguity . . . and a lot of anxiety. Words by Rudy Ricciotti describing The Jean Cocteau Museum in Menton
📍Location: Menton, France
Museum Director: Françoise Leonelli
Completion: 2011
Project Manager: Marco Arioldi
words by Rudy Ricciotti describing his work.
The Jean Cocteau Museum in Menton was designed by the Algerian born architect Rudy Ricciotti. It plays a very beautiful game with the sun in the summer creating a bold shadow symphony by the ocean.
![📍Mentonphoto by Nadia Bouzid [summer 2017]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56703520d8af1045cf9bcf0d/1507416597222-WIF8PD3HX39L7T9CZBTV/Jean+Cocteau+Museum)
📍Menton
photo by Nadia Bouzid [summer 2017]
![The Museum📍Mentonphoto by Nadia Bouzid [summer 2017]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56703520d8af1045cf9bcf0d/1507416804156-5QK977OG20BB7XNE9BTH/Jean+Cocteau+Museum)
![one of my favorite things; the game between the sun and the architecturephoto by Nadia Bouzid [summer 2017]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56703520d8af1045cf9bcf0d/1507416828973-MIVL53IV7DNISYT4QDK5/Jean+Cocteau+Museum)
one of my favorite things; the game between the sun and the architecture
photo by Nadia Bouzid [summer 2017]
![Play of light📍Mentonphoto by Nadia Bouzid [summer 2017]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56703520d8af1045cf9bcf0d/1525938364938-MFUS5PAUGT4THAF1QEQ0/Le+mus%C3%A9e+Jean+Cocteau+collection+S%C3%A9verin+Wunderman)
"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious" -Jean Cocteau
![The Museum📍Mentonphoto by Nadia Bouzid [summer 2017]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56703520d8af1045cf9bcf0d/1525938310212-7HFATTDD7E7C2MDDTWJ7/Le+mus%C3%A9e+Jean+Cocteau+collection+S%C3%A9verin+Wunderman)
![The Museum📍Mentonphoto by Nadia Bouzid [summer 2017]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56703520d8af1045cf9bcf0d/1525938337498-5JSIBFUJ8CDM5IBSHC92/Le+mus%C3%A9e+Jean+Cocteau+collection+S%C3%A9verin+Wunderman)