Nantes entdecken

The Musée d'Arts de Nantes is the city's art museum, founded in 1801 and housed in a palace built in the 1890s around a glass-roofed patio. Reopened in 2017 after an extension that added a contemporary wing, the Cube, and the former Oratory chapel, it shows art from the Middle Ages to today, with works by Georges de La Tour, Ingres, Courbet, Monet and Kandinsky.

The Jardin des Plantes de Nantes is a 7-hectare municipal botanical garden opposite the city's railway station, laid out from 1806 and opened to the public in 1829. About 10,000 plant species grow among ponds, cascades and an artificial hill, including some 600 camellia varieties, a magnolia planted in 1807 and a palm house from the 1890s.

The Jules Verne Museum is devoted to the novelist, born in Nantes in 1828. Opened in 1978 for the 150th anniversary of his birth, it occupies a late 19th-century house on a hill above the Loire, where books, posters, models, games and furniture from Verne's own drawing room trace his life and his Extraordinary Voyages.