Editing Brittany (section)

===Museums===
The Museum of Brittany, located in [[Rennes]], was founded in 1856. Its collections are mainly dedicated to the history of the region. Museums dedicated to [[Prehistory]] and local [[megalith]]s are located in [[Carnac]] and [[Penmarch]], while several towns like [[Vannes]] and [[Nantes]] have a museum presenting their own history.

The [[Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes]] owns a large collection of Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities as well as drawings and engravings by [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]], [[Parmigianino]], [[Albrecht Dürer]] and [[Rembrandt]]. Its French art collection gathers works by [[Georges de La Tour]], [[François Boucher]], [[Paul Gauguin]], [[Auguste Rodin]], [[Camille Corot]] and [[Robert Delaunay]]. It has also works by [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Rubens]], [[Peter Lely]] and [[Paolo Veronese]]. The collections of the [[Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes|Museum of Fine Arts of Nantes]] are more dedicated to modern and contemporary art and contain works by [[Edward Burne-Jones]], [[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres]], [[Eugène Delacroix]], [[Gustave Courbet]], [[Paul Signac]], [[Tamara de Lempicka]], [[Wassily Kandinsky]], [[Max Ernst]], [[Pierre Soulages]] and [[Piero Manzoni]]. The Museums of Fine Arts of [[Brest, France|Brest]] and [[Quimper]] offer similar collections, with large quantities of French painting together with the works of some Italian and Dutch artists. The Museum of Fine Arts [[Pont-Aven]] is dedicated to the [[School of Pont-Aven]]. Contemporary sculptures can be seen in the park around the Château de Kerguéhennec, in [[Bignan]].

Museums in [[Saint-Malo]], [[Lorient]] and [[Douarnenez]] are dedicated to ships and maritime traditions and history. The [[Musée national de la Marine]] has a large annex in Brest and a submarine is opened to visitors in [[Lorient]]. In the same town, it is also possible to visit the [[Keroman Submarine Museum]], and the ''Cité de la voile [[Éric Tabarly]]'', a museum dedicated to sailing. In [[Saint-Nazaire]], where many [[Ocean liner|transatlantic ships]] were built, including {{SS|Normandie}} and {{SS|France|1961|6}}, a museum showing transatlantic interiors was installed in a [[Second World War]] base. Nantes has a [[Jules Verne Museum|museum dedicated to Jules Verne]], a [[Natural History Museum of Nantes|Natural History Museum]] and a museum of archaeology and design, the [[Musée Dobrée]].