Marseille’s Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations has a Naturist exhibit open to nudists.
The museum, is allowing visitors to view the works of art naked, but they have to wear shoes as a precaution against the parquet flooring. “It’s to avoid getting splinters,” the Museum's director said. Guess that's why no one plays barefoot in a Celtics game.
Nude visits to the Naturist Paradises exhibition are in partnership with the French Naturist Federation one evening a month, when the museum is closed.
“Therefore, visitors taking part are naturists and are naked,” the museum said.
There are 600 photographs, films, magazines, paintings, sculptures and other artworks from naturist communities and public & private collections in France and Switzerland.
“France is the world’s leading tourist destination for naturists: its temperate climate and the presence of three seas have facilitated the establishment of communities, which – with the exception of Switzerland – have few real equivalents elsewhere in Europe, where naturism is practiced more freely, outside established communities,” the museum said. “Today, there is a new craze for nudity in nature, a craze that goes hand in hand with the quest for healthy, vegetarian diets and the use of natural therapies, meditation and yoga in the open air. These lifestyles, along with the rejection of the diktats that weigh down our bodies, are all keys to understanding the issues at stake in the naturism of yesterday and today.”
So if you're a naturist, head on out to France, strip down to nothing but your shoes, and enjoy a Naturist experience.