Musée Dobrée

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The Dobrée Museum, formerly known as the Thomas Dobrée Departmental Museum, has been owned by the Loire-Atlantique Department since 1895. It is located in the centre of Nantes, in the Graslin district, near the Natural History Museum and the Cambronne Course. In 2013, the department decided to gather collections and monuments within a new departmental department called Grand Patrimoine de Loire-Atlantique.

The Dobrée museum is one of the buildings concerned, as is Châteaubriant castle, the château de Clisson, the chapel of the Vieux-Bourg de Saint-Sulpice-des-Landes and the domain of the Garenne Lemot. Between 1862 and 1895 the shipowner and collector Thomas Dobrée (1810-1895) built a neo-medieval building with a dual function: place of residence and exhibition space of his collections. When he bought the plot, it already included an elevation building, the episcopal mansion of the Touche erected in the 15th century.

In 1972, a third building was built on the plot, the "Voltaire building" housing among others, the museum's reserves. On the night of April 13-14, 2018, the museum is the victim of the theft of the screen from the heart of Anne of Brittany...