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MUSÉE DES

BEAUX-ARTS DE LYON

⌂ 20 place des Terreaux q Hôtel de Ville # 10am–6pm Wed–Sun ∑ mba-lyon.fr
Founded in 1801, the Musée des Beaux-Arts originally shared a buiding with Lyon’s
School of Fine Art. Today it is housed in the 17th-century Palais St-Pierre, a former
Benedictine convent for the daughters of the nobility. The 70 rooms of the museum
enclose the arches and columns of the former cloister.

Lyon’s Musée des Beaux-Arts showcases the country’s largest
and, some say, most important collection of art after the INSIDER TIP
Louvre. Its rooms display European paintings and sculpture, Time Out
dating from the early medieval and Renaissance to the modern The interior courtyard
period, as well as extensive holdings of drawings and engrav- garden is an ideal spot
ings, and ancient Egyptian and Near East artifacts. There is also for respite between
a dazzling range of objets d’art featuring viewing galleries. Bring
local Lyon silks, ceramics and stone- a snack to have on a
ware from the Far East, and bench or spread a pic nic
Islamic art works. Unusually, under one of the shade-
the musuem is curated in giving trees, to refresh
chronological order rather the senses and mull
than by artist, move- over all you’ve seen.
ment or theme.

Admiring one of the rooms of
sculpture inside the (inset)
Musée des Beaux Arts
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