Editing Nantes (section)

===Museums===
[[File:Reliquaire Anne de Bretagne - Musée de Bretagne 20141102-02.JPG|thumb|alt=Heart-shaped reliquary|[[Reliquary]] of [[Anne of Brittany]] in the [[Musée Dobrée|Dobrée Museum]]]]
Nantes has several museums. The [[Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes|Fine Art Museum]] is the city's largest. Opened in 1900, it has an extensive collection ranging from [[Italian Renaissance]] paintings to contemporary sculpture. The museum includes works by [[Tintoretto]], [[Jan Brueghel the Elder|Brueghel]], [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]], [[Georges de La Tour]], [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres|Ingres]], [[Claude Monet|Monet]], [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]], [[Wassily Kandinsky|Kandinsky]] and [[Anish Kapoor]].{{sfn|Le Musée d'arts}} The Historical Museum of Nantes, in the [[château des Ducs de Bretagne|castle]], is dedicated to local history and houses the municipal collections. Items include paintings, sculptures, photographs, maps and furniture displayed to illustrate major points of Nantes history such as the [[Atlantic slave trade]], [[industrialisation]] and the [[Second World War]].{{sfn|Collections et recherches}}

The [[Musée Dobrée|Dobrée Museum]], closed for repairs {{As of|2017|lc=y}}, houses the ''[[département]]''{{'s}} archaeological and decorative-arts collections. The building is a [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque Revival]] mansion facing a 15th-century manor. Collections include a golden reliquary made for [[Anne of Brittany]]'s heart, medieval statues and timber frames, coins, weapons, jewellery, manuscripts and archaeological finds.{{sfn|Les collections}} The [[Natural History Museum of Nantes]] is one of the largest of its kind in [[France]]. It has more than 1.6&nbsp;million zoological specimens and several thousand mineral samples.{{sfn|Aperçu des collections}} The [[Machines of the Isle of Nantes]], opened in 2007 in the converted shipyards, has automatons, prototypes inspired by deep-sea creatures and a {{convert|12|m|ft|adj=mid|-tall}} walking elephant. With 620,000 visitors in 2015, the ''Machines'' were the most-visited non-free site in [[Loire-Atlantique]].{{sfn|Machines de l'île}} Smaller museums include the [[Jules Verne Museum]] (dedicated to the author, who was born in Nantes) and the Planetarium. The HAB Galerie, located in a former banana warehouse on the Loire, is Nantes's largest art gallery. Owned by the city council, it is used for contemporary-art exhibitions.{{sfn|HAB Galerie}} The council manages four other exhibition spaces, and the city has several private galleries.{{sfn|Autres lieux d'exposition}}