Marine Worlds Carousel

A team of builders, of craftsmen and of artists, led by François Delarozière and Pierre Orefice, settled its workshop in the Naves of the old shipyards of Nantes.Their imagination explore the treetops, the savannah or the seabeds. A bestiary of living machines are escaping from the workshop…
At the very same spot where the big ships were built, at the crossroads of the « invented worlds » of Jules Verne, of the mechanical universe of Leonardo da Vinci and of Nantes’ industrial history, these monumental structures are for all an invitation to dream and to travel.
Discover the Merry-go-round of the Marine worlds, a genuine 360-degree panoramic theatre, that will receive the audience during the summer 2012 in an amazing urban sculpture dedicated to the sea. In the Marine Worlds, you will be the spectator of these strange and disturbing marine creatures that will move in a huge room built on three levels. You’ll discover the sea in all its states, from the seabeds, the abyss to the surface of the oceans.
Visit the Machines Gallery: As soon as February 2012, when the elements of the Marine Worlds join the Merry-go-round, another universe will develop… Plants will be side by side with mechanical plants and with the animals of the canopy. The visitor will sit astride a giant ant that will run on a treadmill… or a beetle larva coming from the ground.