Decorative Arts Museum

In the same complex as the Textile Museum, the Decorative Arts Museum has been housed since 1925 in the former Lacroix-Laval mansion. The various rooms form a showcase for the remarkable collection of hand-made furniture and woodwork made in Paris or Lyon. The pendulum collection counts some forty object of exceptional quality, and the ceramic section contains interesting bone and hard china, as well as one of the most important collections of Renaissance Italian majolica in all of France, not to mention the unusual and rare collection of straw in-lay objects from the 17th to more..

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Museum of Fine Arts

The former Abbey of the Ladies of Saint Pierre, in the center of Lyon, now houses the Fine Arts Museum. The completely renovated museum houses one of France's largest art collections. With 7000 sq. m of exhibit space, it offers a true retrospective of civilization and illustrates with equal splendor the art of ancient Greece and Egypt, sculpture and painting from the Middle Ages to the present.

The antiquities collection: 16 rooms take the visitor down a path through antique civilizations: Egypt, Sumeria, Cyprus, Greece and the Roman Empire. The collection of more..

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address:	Palais Saint-Pierre, 20, place des Terreaux
tel:	(33) 4 72 10 17 40

Museum of Gallo-Roman Civilization

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The Museum of Gallo-Roman Civilization was inaugurated on November 15, 1975. The idea of constructing an archeological museum dates back to 1957 when a large part of the Gallo-Roman collection, previously housed at Palais Saint Pierre (Fine Arts Museum), was transferred to a small building on the site of the antique theaters of Fourvière. Louis Pradel, then Mayor of Lyon, decided to construct a new building, upon the advice of Amable Audin, curator of the Gallo-Roman collection and staunch proponent of the project, with the encouragement of Pierre Quoniam, Inspector General of more..

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address:	17 rue Cléberg - 69005 LYON
tel:	(33) 4 72 38 81 90

Textile Museum

Successor to the Museum of Art and Industry created by the Lyon Chamber of Commerce in 1864, the Textile Museum has, since 1946, made its home in the 17th century Villeroy Mansion. In accordance with the wishes of the Lyon silk industry, in full swing in the late 19th century, the museum gave particular attention to the history of silk manufacturing from the Renaissance to the present. It also illustrates the most important stages in textile history: Persian carpets, Coptic tapestries, silks from Spain, Sicily, Italy, the Middle East and the Far East. The costume section reflects more..

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Musée d'Art Contemporain

In 1983, the city of Lyon decided to create a specialized department in charge of forming a collection of contemporary art within the Fine Arts Museum, with its own program of exhibitions and responsible for the organization of the "Octobre des Arts" Show, replaced in 1991 by the Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art. In 1988, the title of Museum of Contemporary Art was conferred by the Museums of France administrative agency. On December 19, 1995, the Museum of Contemporary Art inaugurated its new building at the Cité Internationale and welcomed 130,000 visitors during the more..

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address:	81 Cité Internationale, Quai Charles de Gaulle
tel:	(33) 4 72 69 17 17
e-mail:	stella@mairie-lyon.fr