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The Musée Jules Verne is a museum dedicated to the French writer
Image:Musee Jules Verne 002.jpg, Jules Verne Museum, Nantes, France
Image:Musee Jules Verne 001.jpg, The Loire River seen through an iron gate
Musée Jules Verne on Nantes Tourist Office website
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The Musée Jules Verne is a museum dedicated to the French writer Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright.
His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...
. It is located in the city of Nantes
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, France
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, and was opened in 1978 to mark the 150th anniversary of Verne's birth. The painter Jean Bruneau, helped by Luce Courville, curator of the municipal library, joined forces to open this museum.
Description
The museum is housed in a late 19th century building overlooking the riverLoire
The Loire ( , , ; ; ; ; ) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône.
It rises in the so ...
. While Verne never lived in the building, its surroundings reflect the atmosphere which influenced his work. His parents had a house in nearby Bas-Chantenay..
The building, divided into several apartments during the 20th century, was gradually bought by the City of Nantes: in 1965, for the upper part, and in 1973, for the lower part.
A large collection of artifacts, replicas of his inventions, and memorabilia inspired by his writings can be found in the museum. The museum is divided into eight themed rooms:
# Jules Verne's drawing room; featuring chairs and the clock from his own drawing room. His china
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on display in the room was donated to the City of Nantes by Verne's descendants. Throughout his career, Verne received the china as gifts from foreign journalists.
# The start of dreams
# The sea, the sea
# The two Jules
# Known and unknown worlds
# The Voyagers on stage
# Reading and games room
# Audiovisual room
The building was renovated in 2005, the centenary of Verne's death. Consequence of the transformation of the urban community into a metropolis, it becomes a metropolitan facility on January 1, 2015.
Location
The museum is located at 3, rue de l'Hermitage, Nantes.Gallery
References
Externals links
*Musée Jules Verne on Nantes Tourist Office website
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