All history museums and attractions to visit in Lyon

Lyon (France) is a good place to visit if you are interested in history. Below we list all 10 history museums in Lyon, to lose yourself in the place's cultural heritage and local history.

Are you a real history buff and are you looking for the best history museums to visit in Lyon? These are the ones:

  1. Musée des Confluences1

    Musée des Confluences

     Lyon
    Musée des Confluences is a science centre and anthropology museum in Lyon. It hold a collection of natural science, anthropology, and Earth Sciences and exhibits related to arts and crafts. The museum features 4 main exhibitions called 'Origins - Stories of the World', 'Species - the Web of life', '
  2. Musée gallo-romain de Fourvière2

    Musée gallo-romain de Fourvière

     Lyon
    Musée gallo-romain de Fourvière (The Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière) is a museum on the Gallo-Roman civilisation in Lyon. The museum is located near the city's Roman theatre on the Fourvière hill. Musée gallo-romain de Fourvière holds a collection of Roman, Celtic and pre-Roman material, inclu
  3. Textile Arts and Decorative Arts Museum3

    Textile Arts and Decorative Arts Museum

     Lyon
    The Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs is a museum in Lyon that is housed in two 18th century hôtels particuliers and actually consists of two museum: the Museum of Textiles (Musée des Tissus) and the Decorative Arts Museum (Musée des arts décoratifs). The museum holds a very large collection o
  4. Museum of the Resistance4

    Museum of the Resistance

     Lyon
    The Centre d'histoire de la résistance et de la déportation (the Center for the History of the Resistance and Deportation), also called the Museumm of the Resistance is a museum in Lyon that is situated on the former site of a French military health school. The museum illustrates the French Resistan
  5. Maison des Canuts5

    Maison des Canuts

     Lyon
    Maison des Canuts (The House of the Canuts) is a museum in Lyon that collects and exhibits traces of Lyon's industrial development based on silk produce. The House of Canuts offers guided tours with demonstration of weaving on a loom. During guided tours, the history of Lyon silk from 1536 until tod
  6. Musée d'Histoire de Lyon6

    Musée d'Histoire de Lyon

     Lyon
    Musée d'Histoire de Lyon is a history museum in Lyon that is housed in Hotel Gadagne. The museum houses the historic collections of the city and presents it chronologically, illustrating the cultural history of Lyon since the Middle Ages until the nineteenth century, with more than 80,000 objects in
  7. Mémorial National de la Prison de Montluc7

    Mémorial National de la Prison de Montluc

     Lyon
  8. Musée de l'imprimerie de Lyon8

    Musée de l'imprimerie de Lyon

     Lyon
    Musée de l'imprimerie de Lyon is a museum in Lyon that is dedicated to the heritage of printed books and graphic arts. The museum holds various collections that show the beginnings of Western printing from the 15th century to the 20th century.
  9. Soierie Vivante9

    Soierie Vivante

     Lyon
    In the Soierie Vivante museum, visitors can visit the workshop to learn more about weaving techniques and experience the technique of weaving by themselves.
  10. Musee UrbainTony Garnier10

    Musee UrbainTony Garnier

     Lyon
    Musee UrbainTony Garnier (The Tony-Garnier urban museum) is an open-air museum that allows you to discover the architectural contribution of the noted architect and city planner Tony Garnier who is considered the forerunner of 20th century French architects.