Musée des arts asiatiques de Toulon, Asian art museum in Le Mourillon district, Toulon, France

The Musée des arts asiatiques de Toulon occupies the villa "Jules Verne" on the coastal road facing Fort Saint-Louis in the Mourillon district. Its three levels hold Chinese collections (137 m²) and Japanese (26 m²) on the first floor, Southeast Asian (68 m²), Indian (22 m²) and Mongolian-Tibetan (26 m²) on the second, with temporary exhibitions on the ground floor. The entrance has a glass door between light blue-green chevron-slatted shutters under a black wrought-iron canopy.

The building was originally a residence for relatives of writer Jules Verne before being converted into a museum. This transformation linked the villa's literary heritage to its new role as a cultural institution.

Most pieces come from bequests to the city of Toulon, often from families of Toulon sailors, since French scientific and military expeditions left from and returned to the port. The first bequest was Baron de Rothschild's in 1892; in 1961 journalist Hippolyte Fauverge de French left 473 objects from India, China, Japan and Southeast Asia.

The museum occupies three levels of the Villa Jules Verne on the coastal road in the Mourillon district, facing Fort Saint-Louis. Temporary exhibitions and activities are on the ground floor; China (137 m²) and Japan (26 m²) on the first; Southeast Asia (68 m²), India (22 m²), Mongolia and Tibet (26 m²) on the second. Admission follows a pay-what-you-wish model.

The museum arranges its Asian art by geographic zones, guiding visitors through a route that mirrors a journey across the continent. This layout transforms viewing the collection into a geographical exploration.