Musée Dobrée, Art museum in Nantes, France

The Musée Dobrée is a Romanesque Revival building of granite and schist, built from 1862 for Thomas Dobrée and finished in 1898. Its long east-west wing has two levels, with arched windows under pale stone surrounds and a tall square tower at one end. A round turret with a conical roof stands beside a gabled section with large tripled arched windows. The 15th-century manoir de la Touche and the 1970s Voltaire building share the grounds.

Thomas Dobrée (1810–1895) gave up his shipping business at 28 to collect art, and from 1862 built a Romanesque Revival palace beside the 15th-century manoir de la Touche to hold more than 10,000 objects. He bequeathed the site and collections to the Département de Loire-Inférieure by deed of 8 August 1894, and the museum opened on 8 January 1899. It closed on 3 January 2011 for restructuring and reopened on 18 May 2024.

The reliquary holding the heart of Anne of Brittany, Duchess of Brittany and twice Queen of France, has been displayed at the museum since 1896. It was stolen in the night of 13 to 14 April 2018 along with a gilded Hindu statue and about fifty medieval gold coins and medals; police recovered the objects and they were returned to the museum in September 2018.

The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday in central Nantes and is easy to reach on foot. Staircases and elevators let you navigate through the different levels of the collection.

Thomas Dobrée never lived in his palace: he died in 1895, before the building was finished in 1898. The Breton motto carved on the tower, accompanied by a wyvern devouring a stone heart, is translated as "uncertainty devours my heart".