The Gallery is like a performance area where each machine puts on a mini-show lasting five to ten minutes. During your visit, the machinists will explain the history and workings of these strange creatures and give birth to this imaginary world of the Heron Tree. It houses a Laboratory and a whole bestiary of machines. A machinist will tell you stories about the elephant and make it trumpet for your pleasure. On board, you will be able to see the moving gears that power the legs. 49 passengers embark on an amazing journey. When the majestic animal goes out for its walk, it is like architecture in motion leaving a steel cathedral. Three carousels are stacked in a genuine concrete lacework topped by a marquee adorned with pediments, and guarded by 16 fishermen from all the oceans of the world. This giant carousel, almost 25 m high and 20 m of diameter, is an incredible machinery that reawakens fairground art. Located on the banks of the Loire river, opposite the Jules Verne Museum, the Marine Worlds Carousel seems to come out of the isle of Nantes’s belly at the most maritime place of the city. The designers let their imagination roam from the treetops to the Savannah or to the ocean depths, building a bestiary of living machines that escape the confines of the workshop to populate this area under redevelopment.
The team of builders of the company La Machine have set up their workshop in the industrial warehouses of the former shipyards. Les Machines de l’île is an unprecedented artistic project that blends the imaginary worlds of Jules Verne, the mechanical universe of Leonardo da Vinci, and the industrial history of Nantes.
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