Great Cultural Center - interesting architecture. Parking just around the corner.

A nice cultural center for Nimes, where you go from the library to the classrooms where you can set up exhibitions such as those of modern art. The architecture is new and majestic as a whole and definitely makes it quite a tourist attraction. Then there is also the possibility of going to the bar-restaurant with a terrace overlooking the square of the Roman temple.

Interesting architectural design. The museum itself is fine, a few interesting works. The guards in each room follow you around a bit excessively and ruin the experience.

We visited it on Sunday, museum is open but toilets are closed. Fairly poor exhibition, your tickets are checked in every room you enter.

I'm probably not well qualified to judge this gallery, as I'm not a big fan of contemporary art, however I am always open to giving it a try. In my opinion, such as it is, this was particularly poor. Very few exhibits, many of them completely missed me, in that I could see little artistic quality in them. I think I enjoyed about 5% of the exhibits. I was accompanied by 2 other people, both of whom had a wider appreciation of art than myself, and they also found it particularly poor. Frankly, a waste of €8.

Impossible to enjoy art here because of the terribly intrusive attendants. They followed us closely - and audibly - while we visited the rooms as if we were intruders on their premises. Never had such an experience in 40 years of visiting museums all over the world.

Great building and pretty library, nevertheless, the museum disappointed us. Super SMALL exhibition and quite awful. We enjoy contemporary art museums but this one is not worth the money. Nice admission staff, but the one at the exhibition were kind of annoying.

The view from top is a good tip. It's a place called " Le ciel de Nîmes" toping 5he museum. It's worth visiting collections of that nice art center and public library. The restaurant and bar over the terrace is one if the best adresses in town....

Nice but small, interesting collection

I was there for the opening of the first exhibition to occupy the entire space by a single artist ( and he’s local!) Despite being 87? He not only directed the installation, he apparently created the last work for it 5 days ago! A stunning space with knowledgeable and friendly staff. A must see !

So cool to work there, there is an open space that is so calm

It's a nice enough building, and you get a great view of the temple across the street from the rooftop cafe, but the permanent exhibition is woefully small and uninteresting.

Lovely place. Definitely recommend a visit. Friendly staff too.

The building is certainly amazing but the Art is so disappointing! It really made me feel how humanity is proven to be gradually less and less intelligent (phones, screens, pesticides, less direct interaction, inexistent creative boredom...who knows?) But it is a proven fact and Art always reflects the society it belongs to. I would even say "lacking respect" for the nice architecture to hold in a whole wall just one photograph that seemed to be taken by error. Horrible Art, quite contemporary of course. Authors and curators will of course say I know nothing and I am an old person. Cafeteria on the top is great, if weather is nice. Clean toilets.

Building is cool, however the art exhibition quite disappointing. It was very small and not a lot of information in English.

Fabulous show celebrating their 30 Years. They do a great job presenting contemporary art chronologically. The information placards explain the emergence of contemporary philosophies and their transition in form over the las 5 decades. I recommend seeing this in conjunction with the Museum Romanité (Musée de la Romanité). Their current contemporary exhibit binds the relationship between the two museums. Ignore negative reviews and come to appreciate this excellent exhibit.

The Carré d'art at Nîmes in southern France houses a museum of contemporary art and the city's municipal library. Constructed of glass, concrete and steel, it faces the Maison Carrée, a perfectly preserved Roman temple that dates from the 1st century BC

We enjoyed the Carré. The art is a bit strange and not for everyone, but the building is very nice, as are the cafe and bookshops.

Tourists visiting the famous Maison Carrée should cross the "boulevard", just 50 feets across, to enter in this typical French cultural center named nowadays "mediatheque", designed by the great architect Norman Foster. There, you can just relax and get to better understand how cultural questions are important, inclusive in plenty of small French cities where "mediatheques" are commonplaces. Library, free press, exhibition rooms, coffee shop, etc. Very friendly feeling wandering around and... a free entrance. Deserves at least a 15 minutes pit-stop.