- Castle of the Dukes of Brittany

Created from the merger of six collections dating from the 1920s, the permanent collection of the Nantes History Museum contains more than 50,000 objects. Over 800 are on display.
The selection is extremely diverse: paintings, sculpture, relief maps, model ships, maps and plans, posters, engravings, photographs, films, tools, scientific instruments, furniture, objets d'art, archived documents, etc...

They have been chosen for their significance and their capacity to illustrate and explain the different historical themes.
A ship's figurehead, a Turner watercolour of Nantes, a weathervane from a traditional Loire boat, the tapestry of the States of Brittany, a 13th century dugout canoe, the uniform dress worn by a Nantes resistance member sent to the concentration camps... each object is presented in a way which brings out its historical and human interest.