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Atelier de Passementerie
The riveting Atelier de Passementerie is an authentic workshop where weavers lived and worked until 1979. Its boutique also sells contemporary Lyonnais silk.
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Centre d'Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation
The WWII headquarters of Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie from 1942 to 1944 houses the evocative Centre d'Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation . Multimedia exhibits present the history of Nazi atrocities and the heroism of French Resistance fighters. The life and times of Barbie were the subject of the epic 4½-hour film Hôtel Terminus (1988).
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Maison des Canuts
During the bitter 1830-31 canut uprisings, triggered by low pay and dire working conditions, hundreds of weavers were killed. Gem up on their labour-intensive life at the Maison des Canuts, a museum with a shop opposite that sells silk.
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Montée de la Grand Côte
Silk, stained glass and other visual arts are the soul of Montée de la Grand Côte, a walkway lined with artists workshops that links Croix Rousse with place des Terreaux, 1er.
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Musée d'Art Contemporain
The Musée d'Art Contemporain displays works created after 1960.
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Musée de l'Automobile Henri Malartre
Motoring enthusiasts can drool over 120 vintage cars (not to mention Hitler's Mercedes and Jean-Paul II's Renault Espace!), 50-odd motorbikes, bicycles and modes of Lyonnais public transport over the centuries at the chateau-museum Musée de l'Automobile Henri Malartre, 11km north of central Lyon along the Saône-side D433. Take bus 40 or 70 to the 'Rochetaillée' stop.
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Musée de l'Imprimerie
The Musée de l'Imprimerie focuses on a technology established in Lyon by the 1480s.
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Musée de la Civilisation Gallo-Romaine
Artefacts found in the Rhône Valley, including the remains of a four-wheeled vehicle from around 700 BC and several sumptuous mosaics, are displayed in the Musée de la Civilisation Gallo-Romaine.
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Musée de la Poupée
Dolls of all ages and origins grace the elegant rooms of the Musée de la Poupée, inside a fairy-tale castle 12km northwest from the centre. A vast green wooded park hugs the 16th-century chateau and an electric train takes punters on park tours in summer. The fountain-studded paddling pool makes cooling down on hot summer days great fun.
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Musée des Arts Décoratifs
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs displays 18th-century furniture, tapestries, wallpaper, ceramics and silver.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts
The Musée des Beaux-Arts showcases France's finest collection of sculptures and paintings from every period of European art outside Paris. Its cloister garden is a great picnic venue.
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Musée des Confluences
Watch this space for the incredible Musée des Confluences, a spacey science- and society-focused museum set to open in 2008. As much stunning piece of contemporary architecture as museum, it will be housed in a futuristic steel-and-glass transparent crystal topped by a floating 'cloud'. Inside, three of the 10 vast exhibition areas will grapple with eternal questions like 'Where do we come from?', 'Where are we going?' and 'Who are we and what are we doing?'.
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Musée des Tissus
Extraordinary Lyonnais silks, French and Asian textiles, and carpets are showcased at the Musée des Tissus .
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Musée Gadagne
The Musée Gadagne, in a 16th-century mansion once owned by two rich Florentine bankers, will house a local history and puppet museum when it reopens in 2007 after extensive renovations.
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Musée Lumière
Cinema's glorious beginnings are showcased at the Musée Lumière, a film-buff must 3km southeast of place Bellecour along cours Gambetta. The museum is inside the Art Nouveau home (1899-1902) of Antoine Lumière who, with his sons Auguste and Louis, moved to Lyon in 1870 and shot the first reels of the world's first motion picture, La Sortie des Usines Lumières (Exit of the Lumières Factories) in one of their factories here on 19 March 1895.
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