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Architects: Stanton Williams
- Area: 17000 m²
- Year: 2017
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Photographs:Hufton+Crow, Stefano Graziani, Stanton Williams
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Contractor: Bouygues Bâtiment Grand Ouest, Bouygues Bâtiment
Text description provided by the architects. Stanton Williams’ €48.8 million transformation and extension of the Musée d’arts de Nantes 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 - adding a contemporary layer to an exceptional accumulation of historical monuments. This new design blends a finely tailored museography around the collection with contemporary architecture -transforming the introverted image of the former Musée des Beaux-Arts into a vibrant, democratic and welcoming contemporary space that is open to the city and its people.
