It pours down without warning, blurs contours, causes light to shimmer, and transforms landscapes.
Rain disturbs as much as it soothes, and irritates as much as it fascinates. Nantes’ Musée d’arts has dedicated its flagship 2025 exhibition to exploring our intimate and sensorial relationship to rain, and the fascination it has held for artists from the early 19th century on to the 1930s.
This exhibition has been designed by the Musée d’arts de Nantes and will be adapted for Rouen’s Fine Arts museum in 2026.
EXHIBITION CURATOR
Scientific curator:
Marie-Anne du Boullay, head of 19th-century collections.
Assisted by Anouck Sberro, exhibition assistant at the Nantes Museum of Art.
Based on an idea by Jean-Rémi Touzet, currently curator at the Musée d’Orsay.
10 Rue Georges Clemenceau, Nantes
How to get there?
Parking(s) nearby: Parking Cathédrale, Parking Gare Château
Public transport: Trébuchet, Foch-Cathédrale, Foch - Cathédrale, St-Clément
Self-service bicycles: Foch (n°32), Jardin Des Plantes (n°63), Saint Clément (n°64), Duchesse Anne (n°49), Gare De Nantes Nord (n°60), Verdun (n°48), Strasbourg (n°3), Gare De Nantes Nord 2 (n°62), Lieu Unique (n°61), Cours Sully (n°65)
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Last admission 30 minutes before closing time
Evacuation of the exhibition rooms 20 minutes before closing time
Free for PASS Nantes holders
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Advantage for Pass Nantes holders: free access + reduced rate for guided tours and conference visits.
Another advantage of the Pass Nantes: a free drink at the Museum café, see conditions
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4€ reduced
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Free admission on the first Sunday of every month, except July and August.
Free during the weekly nocturne, every Thursday from 19.00 to 21.00
Free for under 18s, disabled people and their companions, jobseekers and recipients of minimum social benefits, Carte Blanche holders.
Free for anyone with a yearly museum membership
Pass Musées : 15 € (valid one year from date to date in the 5 metropolitan museums)
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