Museums/Galleries in Lyon and the Alps

Sights Overview

Name	Category	Location

Centre d'Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation During World War II, especially after 1942, Lyon played an important...	Museums / Galleries	Presqu'île and the Croix Rousse District

Institut Lumière On the site where the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis...	Museums / Galleries	Presqu'île and the Croix Rousse District

Maison des Canuts Despite the industrialization of silk and textile production...	Museums / Galleries	Presqu'île and the Croix Rousse District

Musée Alpin Chamonix was little more than a quiet mountain village until...	Museums / Galleries	Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

Musée Archéologique The Roman Temple of Diana (second to third century AD) now houses...	Museums / Galleries	Aix-les-Bains


Musée Dauphinois On the north side of the River Isère is Rue Maurice-Gignoux...	Museums / Galleries	Grenoble

Musée de Grenoble Place de Lavalette—on the south side of the river, where...	Museums / Galleries	Grenoble

Musée des Arts Décoratifs Housed in an 18th-century mansion, the museum has fine collections...	Museums / Galleries	Presqu'île and the Croix Rousse District

Musée des Beaux-Arts In the elegant 17th-century Palais St-Pierre, formerly a Benedictine...	Museums / Galleries	Presqu'île and the Croix Rousse District

Musée des Confluences This innovative new glass-and-titanium museum—an architectural...	Museums / Galleries	Presqu'île and the Croix Rousse District

Musée des Mariniers du Rhône Life on the water is depicted at the Musée des Mariniers...	Museums / Galleries	Serrières

Musée du Vieux Pérouges The Musée du Vieux Pérouges, to one side of the...	Museums / Galleries	Pérouges

Musée Gallo-Romain de Fourvière Since 1933, systematic excavations have unearthed vestiges of...	Museums / Galleries	Vieux Lyon and Fourvière

Musée Historique des Tissus A sister museum to the Arts Décoratifs, this one is dedicated...	Museums / Galleries	Presqu'île and the Croix Rousse District

Musée Stendhal This newly opened museum, established in Stendhal's grandfather's...	Museums / Galleries	Grenoble

Musée Urbain Tony Garnier Built between 1920 and 1933, this project (also known as the...	Museums / Galleries	Presqu'île and the Croix Rousse District

Musée-Château d'Annecy Crowning the city is one of France's most gorgeous castles, the...	Museums / Galleries	Annecy

Musées Gadagne These two museums are housed in the city's largest ensemble of...	Museums / Galleries	Vieux Lyon and Fourvière
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