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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Monuments & Sites, Museums & Art Centres
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon), created in 1803 and located in a former twelfth century Benedictine convent, features one of the largest Fine Arts collections in Europe, and the second largest in France after the Louvre.

The collection contains sculptures and paintings from the 14th to the 20th century, Egyptian art, oriental art, art objects, coins, and more, including names such as Véronèse, Rubens, Rembrandt, Poussin, Géricault, Delacroix, Gauguin, etc.

The building has been seriously renovated by the architects  Philippe-Charles Dubois, Jean-Michel Wilmotte and Gabriel Mortamet, and was inaugurated in March 1998.

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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

20 Place des Terreaux
69001 Lyon
France