After-school

Discover the collections with your group, either on your own or accompanied by a Musée d'arts de Nantes mediator-lecturer.

Guided tours and workshops

Design tour

Marc Chagall, The Red Horse, 1938-1944 © Adagp, Paris, 2024 © Gérard Blot/Agence photographique de la RMN-GP

Duration: 1h
Age range: 6 and up
Number of children: 12

Discover the collections, pencils in hand. After observing the works, children draw and sketch shapes and lines, giving shape to their imaginations.

Game: Back to the museum

Back to the Museum" game Ages 7 / 9 Leisure Center

Duration: 1h
Age group: 6-10
Number of children: 24 maximum
Starting at 11:15 a.m.

Retour à la case musée (Back to the Museum) is a game of goose that takes place in the rooms of the museum, for a playful discovery of the site and its collections. Ideal for a first contact with the museum.

Divide the group into 3 or 4 small teams, depending on the total number of children (maximum 7 per group). There should be as many chaperones as there are groups.

Game: It's the exhibition of the century!

Duration: 1h30
Age range: 11 and up
Number of children: 12

C'est l'expo du siècle! is a large-scale board game that pits 4 teams against each other. For the duration of a game, become curators and exhibition commissioners: manage the works in the collection, experience the ups and downs of museum life, and to win, create as many exhibitions as possible. Guided tour.


Self-guided tours

Games and drawings booklet: Musée à croquer

Running time: 1h
Age range: 6 and up

Discover the museum's collections on your own with Le Musée à croquer, an activity booklet that invites you to draw in a variety of ways, using your sense of observation and imagination. You'll need pencils and the booklet you can download from the link below.

The must-haves

Claude Monet, Water Lilies at Giverny, 1917.

Duration: 1h
Age range: 11-15 years

From the 13th to the 21st century, explore nine centuries of artistic creation in the museum's collections and discover its masterpieces.

Booklet available on request from reception.


Self-guided tour of the permanent collections

Open house

Tours available from 11.15 a.m.

Would you like to take your own free tour of the Musée d'arts de Nantes? This is possible every day from 11.15 am, subject to availability.

To ensure that your visit is as comfortable as possible, we simply ask you to indicate the works you wish to stop in front of on the New Window pre-reservation form. Without this information, your request will not be considered.