Exhibition opening Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 6:30 pm on the Louis de Funès Museum forecourt
Why not leave reality at the museum door?
Think you know Louis de Funès? Get ready to rediscover him in a totally new light! Behind his legendary expressions lay a passion for fantasy and science fiction. UFOs, crazy scientific experiments, masked criminals with futuristic gadgets...
The films of Louis de Funès are brimming with delirious universes, where the extraordinary becomes an inexhaustible source of comedy.
Three universes, one mission: to take you on a journey beyond reality!
Fantômas: The shadow of super-espionage
Human masks, futuristic gadgets and wild chases... Fantômas is James Bond in burlesque, with Commissaire Juve (de Funès) as tenacious as he is clumsy!
La Soupe aux choux and Le Gendarme et les extra-terrestres: a shower of UFOs
La Denrée arrives in a flying saucer, with oil-drinking robots... When science fiction meets terroir, the result is a firework display of tenderness and absurdity.
Hibernatus: ice and laughter
A grandfather frozen since 1905 reappears, and everything goes haywire! Between the clash of eras and the fear of progress, science fiction becomes a comic mirror of our society.
A funny, touching and inventive exhibition
For young and old dreamers, fans of science fiction, comedy or simply Louis de Funès. Come and enjoy an immersive experience, featuring rare archives, cult extracts, reconstructed sets and artificial intelligence!
A fantastic partnership! The Louis de Funès Museum is joining forces with the Lyon Museum of Cinema and Miniatures to take you on a journey through the extraordinary worlds of fantasy and science fiction cinema from the 70s and 80s, in France and abroad. Strange creatures, miniature sets, hand-crafted special effects: rediscover an era teeming with imagination, populated by mythical monsters, wacky robots and parallel worlds.
An intergalactic partnership! The Musée de la Gendarmerie et du Cinéma de Saint-Tropez (Gendarmerie and Cinema Museum, Saint-Tropez) has joined the exhibition with an exceptional loan: the arm of an extraterrestrial from Le Gendarme et les extra-terrestres. An unmissable nod to the delirious universe of Louis de Funès, between science fiction and cult comedy.
Mediation for young audiences: discovering the cosmos!
Guided by La Denrée, children will slip into the shoes of budding astronomers. Through playful workshops, they can reconstruct the solar system, observe the different phases of the Moon, listen to the sound of space and discover the objects that populate our Universe!
Practical information
Admission
> Full price €7
> Group rate €4 per person
> Free for under-18s, students and the unemployed
Opening hours
> Last admission: 45 minutes before museum closes
> Spring - Autumn, May 1 to June 30 and September 1 to 30:
Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Sundays 10:00 am - 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
> Summer, July 1 to August 31 :
Daily, 10:00 am to 7:00 pm (until 9:00 pm on Thursdays)
> Winter, October 1 to April 30 :
Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Sunday, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
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The Pays de Fayence (Fayence district) has many great provencal villages. All of them have a particularity such as the view from Mons or the artistic streets of Tourrettes. Do no forget to stop in Seillans that has the label of "Most beautiful village in France"
North of the A8 motorway, you will find the Pays de Fayence. Saint-Cassien lake, a real oasis of freshness in the Var, awaits you! Take a break at the Lake House before visiting the villages of Bagnols-en-Forêt, St-Paul-en-Forêt or Tanneron.
The city of Roquebrune-sur-Argens is the most westerly of the destination. It includes three districts: La Bouverie, at the foot of Gorges du Blavet; The village, overlooked by its magnificent rock, and Les Issambres, with its nautical activities by the sea.
Les Adrets de l'Estérel is a small town located at the extreme southeastern Var. Bordering the Maritimes Alpes, it is composed of large green forests. The town overlooks the bay of Cannes and has an exceptional view on the Lérins Islands and the Corniche de l'Estérel.
Puget sur Argens is a small village located in the middle of many wineries. Its commercial area, near the village, includes many shopping center. North of the village, the Bois du Defens give rise to several walks.
Welcome to Les Issambres, the district of Roquebrune-sur-Argens located on the coast. True paradise with its 8 km of beaches and creeks, this family seaside resort, already frequented at the time by the Romans, is located between the Gulf of Saint-Tropez and Fréjus-Saint Raphaël.
Frejus, located halfway between Cannes and Saint-Tropez, is at the heart of the Côte d'Azur. Based on a sandstone buttress of the Esterel massif, the town dominates the valleys of Argens and Reyran. Frejus has the appearance of a small Provencal town whose new districts extend to the sea.
65km from Nice Côte d'Azur International Airport, Saint-Raphaël is located between Cannes and Saint-Tropez. This seaside resort on the Mediterranean coast is at the bottom of the great Esterel mountains. Saint Raphael, whose city center is by the sea, is divided into different neighborhoods that have all their characteristics and their personalities.
