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Lyon Museums and Galleries Walk

Lyon Museums and Galleries Walk

Lyon · France

6 stops2.6 km33 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Explore Lyon through museums and galleries devoted to fine art, printing, local history, religious art, and Roman archaeology. You will see paintings and sculpture, printed works and presses, Lyon stories and puppets, sacred objects, and mosaics and inscriptions from the ancient city. The route ends on Fourvière, where the collections place Lyon’s artistic and cultural history in view. Allow for an uphill section toward the final museums.

The walk

  1. Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon

    Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon

    A former aristocratic abbey that became Lyon’s great museum of art and antiquities.

  2. Museum of Printing and Graphic Communication

    Museum of Printing and Graphic Communication

    A Renaissance merchant’s house that became Lyon’s museum of printing and graphic communication.

  3. Gadagne Museums

    Gadagne Museums

    A Renaissance merchant’s mansion turned into Lyon’s museum of the city and puppetry.

  4. Maison de Pauline Jaricot

    Maison de Pauline Jaricot

    A sixteenth-century Lyon country house reshaped by Pauline Jaricot into a centre of Catholic mission.

  5. Musée d'art religieux de Fourvière

    Musée d'art religieux de Fourvière

    A museum on Lyon’s “hill that prays,” where religious history meets the Roman past of Fourvière.

  6. Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière

    Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière

    A museum set among the Roman theatre, baths, and second-century odéon of ancient Lugdunum.

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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