JULES VERNE MUSEUM
Go there and contact
The museum invites visitors on a "journey to the heart of Vernian writing", through books, documents and excerpts from the works...
The author of Voyage au center de la terre (Journey to the Center of the Earth), Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours (Around the World in Eighty Days)... was a local boy. Jules Gabriel Verne was born in Nantes on February 8, 1828. A museum dedicated to him is housed in a large 19th-century bourgeois house on the Butte Sainte-Anne. Inaugurated in 1978 to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, and renovated in 2005 to mark the centenary of his death, the Jules Verne Museum invites visitors on a "journey to the heart of Verne's writing", through books, documents, excerpts from his works and illustrations, posters, games and objects: thanks to the writer's grandson, the museum boasts furniture from his Amiens living room, his globe and his compass box. In 1966, the heirs of Maxime Guillon-Verne, descendants of his youngest sister, donated to the city of Nantes an important collection of correspondence that is particularly interesting for an understanding of his early literary essays. Visitors are invited to let themselves be carried away by Jules Verne's boundless imagination, which gave birth to the masterpieces we know today. His inventiveness, daring, fantasy and humor unravel the most unexpected situations with the skill of the playwright he was in his early days. Come and rediscover the well-known and lesser-known aspects of a writer who knows how to speak to the heart, the imagination and the intellect.
Book the Best Activities with Get Your Guide
Members' reviews on JULES VERNE MUSEUM
