Jules Verne Museum

Museum in Nantes, France

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The Jules Verne Museum located on the side of a cliff in Nantes.

The Musée Jules Verne is a museum dedicated to the French writer Jules Verne. It is located in the city of Nantes, France, 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.[1]

## Description

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Museum entrance

The museum is housed in a late 19th century building overlooking the river Loire. 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.[2]

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.[3]

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:

1. Jules Verne's drawing room; featuring chairs and the clock from his own drawing room. His china 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.
2. The start of dreams
3. The sea, the sea
4. The two Jules
5. Known and unknown worlds
6. The Voyagers on stage
7. Reading and games room
8. 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.[4]

## Location

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The museum is located at 3, rue de l'Hermitage, Nantes.[5]

## Gallery

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* Jules Verne Museum, Nantes, France

* The Loire River seen through an iron gate

## References

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1. ^ "Le site officiel de Jean BRUNEAU, artiste-peintre nantais". www.jeanbruneau.com. Archived from the original on 2014-10-22. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
2. ^ "Maison des parents de Jules Verne". Patrimoine des Pays de la Loire. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 22 June 2015..
3. ^ "Maison actuellement Musée Jules Verne". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
4. ^ "Nantes. Le stade La Beaujoire dans le giron de la métropole". 10 December 2014.
5. ^ Nantes, Nantes Métropole | Ville de. "Musée Jules Verne". metropole.nantes.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-05-04.

## Externals links

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* Official website
* Musée Jules Verne on Nantes Tourist Office website Archived 2016-02-03 at the Wayback Machine

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* Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863)
* Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
* From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
* The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1866)
* In Search of the Castaways (1867–68)
* Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1869–70)
* Around the Moon (1870)
* A Floating City (1871)
* The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (1872)
* The Fur Country (1873)
* Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
* The Mysterious Island (1874–75)
* The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875)
* Michael Strogoff (1876)
* Off on a Comet (1877)
* The Child of the Cavern (1877)
* Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (1878)
* The Begum's Fortune (1879)
* Tribulations of a Chinaman in China (1879)
* The Steam House (1880)
* Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (1881)
* Godfrey Morgan (1882)
* The Green Ray (1882)
* Kéraban the Inflexible (1883)
* The Vanished Diamond (1884)
* The Archipelago on Fire (1884)
* Mathias Sandorf (1885)
* The Lottery Ticket (1886)
* Robur the Conqueror (1886)
* North Against South (1887)
* The Flight to France (1887)
* Two Years' Vacation (1888)
* Family Without a Name (1889)
* The Purchase of the North Pole (1889)
* César Cascabel (1890)
* Mistress Branican (1891)
* The Carpathian Castle (1892)
* Claudius Bombarnac (1892)
* Foundling Mick (1893)
* Captain Antifer (1894)
* Propeller Island (1895)
* Facing the Flag (1896)
* Clovis Dardentor (1896)
* An Antarctic Mystery (1897)
* The Mighty Orinoco (1898)
* The Will of an Eccentric (1899)
* The Castaways of the Flag (1900)
* The Village in the Treetops (1901)
* The Sea Serpent (1901)
* The Kip Brothers (1902)
* Travel Scholarships (1903)
* A Drama in Livonia (1904)
* Master of the World (1904)
* Invasion of the Sea (1905)

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* "A Drama in Mexico" (1851)
* "A Drama in the Air" (1851)
* "Martin Paz" (1852)
* "Master Zacharius" (1854)
* "A Winter amid the Ice" (1855)
* "The Count of Chanteleine" (1864)
* "The Blockade Runners" (1865)
* "Dr. Ox's Experiment" (1872)
* "An Ideal City" (1875)
* "The Mutineers of the Bounty" (1879)
* "Frritt-Flacc" (1884)
* "Gil Braltar" (1887)
* "In the Year 2889" (1889)
* "The Eternal Adam" (1910)

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Novels|

* The Lighthouse at the End of the World (1905)
* The Golden Volcano (1906)
* The Thompson Travel Agency (1907, by Michel Verne)
* The Chase of the Golden Meteor (1908)
* The Danube Pilot (1908)
* The Survivors of the "Jonathan" (1909)
* The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz (1910)
* The Barsac Mission (1919)
* Backwards to Britain (1989, written 1859)
* A Priest in 1839 (1992, written ca. 1847)
* Paris in the Twentieth Century (1994, written 1863)

* Doctor Ox (1874, short story collection)
* Journey Through the Impossible (1882, play)

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* Aouda
* Tom Ayrton
* David Farragut
* Phileas Fogg
* Lord Glenarvan
* Captain Nemo
* Jacques Paganel
* Jean Passepartout
* Cyrus Smith

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* Nautilus
* HMS Sword

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* Jules Verne Museum
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* Jules Verne lunar crater
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