# The best museums in Lyon

From the Confluences to the Lumière museum: Lyon's must-see museums according to the tourist office and guides.

- 21 votes · 11 items
- Apr 26, 2023 · madamevalise
- https://even.best/en/l/2746/the-best-museums-in-lyon

## Top 11

1. **Musée des Confluences** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Science and societies in a futuristic building at the tip of the peninsula.
2. **Lyon Museum of Fine Arts** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A great European collection in a seventeenth-century abbey.
3. **Lumière Museum** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Lumière brothers' house, birthplace of cinema.
4. **Cinema and Miniature Museum** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Film sets and hyperrealistic miniatures.
5. **Museum of Contemporary Art** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Contemporary art at the Cité Internationale.
6. **Centre for the History of the Resistance and Deportation** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — In the former military health school.
7. **Maison des Canuts** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Silk looms in the Croix-Rousse.
8. **Gadagne Museums** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Lyon history and world puppets in Old Lyon.
9. **Museum of Decorative Arts** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Furniture and art objects in a mansion.
10. **Museum of Printing and Graphic Communication** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lyon as a Renaissance printing capital.
11. **Lugdunum – Museum and Roman Theatres** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — The Gallo-Roman museum at Fourvière.

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