Claire Lebossé remained fourteen at the Nantes Arts Museum before taking, on November 3, 2025, the management of the Caen Museum of Fine Arts as a second post. At the same time, she will assume the function of assistant director of the Caen castle.
After studying at the Paris Institute of Political Studies in 2001, she turned to the Museography at the New York University, while following a master 2 in art history at the Sorbonne until 2008. Students of the National Heritage Institute in 2010-2011, she carried out several internships in museum institutions before joining, in 2011, the Nantes Museum of Arts as a conservative of the heritage.
She was a scientific co-commissioner of several exhibitions devoted to Charlie Chaplin, Suzanne Valadon, to surrealism and abstraction. She also contributed to the acquisitions of modern works of art, in particular with the gift of 46 pieces from the collection of Nantes gallery owners Jean and Jeannette Branchet, presented during a temporary attachment. She also participated in the museum expansion project, from 2011 to her reopening in 2017, working on museography and mediation.
Founded in 1801, the Caen Museum of Fine Arts retains an important set of works from the Italian, French and Flemish Renaissance, as well as collections of modern and contemporary art spread over 6,000 m². Since 2007, it has also been associated with a sculpture park. As Director, Claire Lebossé will have to continue collaboration with the Caen University Hospital as part of the “ABC-art, well-being, brain” study, the first results of which are expected in the fall. She will also have to prepare for the arrival of the Gandur Foundation for Art in 2030, which will modify the cultural offer of the city. She will accompany Jean-Marie Levesque in parallel, director of the castle of Caen, built around 1060 by Guillaume le Conquérant, as Adjusting.
Emmanuelle Delapierre, who hitherto directed the Museum of Fine Arts in Caen after entering in 2015, is appointed head of the Nantes Arts Museum.
Entrance to the Caen Museum of Fine Arts located in the castle.
