What’s Happening: Once a month, a thorough museum exhibition about the history of naturalism lets visitors partake in clothing-optional visits.

The Download: Marseille has become one of the leading hotspots for European nudists, where multiple clothes-optional beaches and naturist communities luxuriate in the Mediterranean’s balmy climes. So there’s no better place than the city’s Mucem, the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations, to stage “Naturist Paradises,” an exhibition about the art of living in one’s birthday suit. More than 600 paintings, sculptures, photographs, films, and objects chronicle the past century of France’s dalliances with nudism, a counter-cultural movement that arose in the early 20th century. In the face of rampant industrialization and urbanization, some believed the utopian ideal of returning to the land and exposing one’s body to the elements was medically beneficial. The reality might be murkier, but it’s hard to argue that increased absorption of Vitamin D and fresh air doesn’t relieve at least a little bit of stress.

Besides setting out to chronicle the movement’s rise, the show also disproves the popular belief that it was simply a fad from the sixties. “A new craze for nudity in nature has arisen,” the museum’s curators explain, “going hand in hand with the search for healthy, vegetarian diets and the use of natural therapies, meditation, and yoga in the open air.” Archival photography of André and Gaston Durville’s naturist club Héliopolis in Île du Levant, an island off the French Riviera, shine a spotlight on the holistic, vegetarian life the brothers pioneered; there are also graphic posters advertising nudist communities as far away as Leysin, Switzerland. Visitors to Mucen are even encouraged to take part. On one Tuesday per month, the museum is hosting clothes-optional visits with the region’s naturist communities.

In Their Own Words: “The heart of naturism is to reconnect with nature, to rediscover your naked body,” Amélie Lavin, one of the show’s curators, tells ARTnews. “I hope that the exhibition also allows us to question the equation that we systematically make between nudity and sexuality. The exhibition shows a lot of naked bodies but it’s not at all about sexuality.”

Surface Says: If walking around a drafty museum naked isn’t your vibe, the show is still worth seeing with clothes on, too.

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