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Grand Musée d’Art Nantes
Mus̩e des Beaux-Arts, Nantes Architecture, France Рdesign by Stanton Williams Architects
27 Feb 2017
Musée d’Art Nantes
Design: Stanton Williams Architects
Location: Nantes, Northern France
Stanton Williams? transformation of Musée d’arts de Nantes is set to complete in June 2017

Stanton Williams? ?48.8 million transformation and extension of the Mus̩e d?arts will open to the public in June 2017. For this landmark cultural project, the London-based architecture practice has updated the historical site ? an exemplary expression of the city?s civic and cultural pride and one of the largest Fine Arts Museums in France outside Paris Рadding a contemporary layer to an exceptional accumulation of historical monuments. This new design blends a finely tailored museography around the collection with contemporary architecture Рtransforming the introverted image of the former Mus̩e des Beaux-Arts into a vibrant, democratic and welcoming contemporary space that is open to the city and its people. de Nantes
The Musée d?arts de Nantes incorporates several key extension buildings to the original 19th Century ?Palais?, and 17th Century Oratory Chapel, with the addition of a 4,000 sqm contemporary art exhibition space. An auditorium, library, new educational facilities, archive, and external sculpture court have also been create...