Are you a real history buff and are you looking for the best history museums to visit in Lyon? These are the ones:
1Musée des Confluences
LyonMusée 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', ' 2Musée gallo-romain de Fourvière
LyonMusée 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 3Textile Arts and Decorative Arts Museum
LyonThe 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 4Museum of the Resistance
LyonThe 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 5Maison des Canuts
LyonMaison 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 6Musée d'Histoire de Lyon
LyonMusée 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 7Mémorial National de la Prison de Montluc
Lyon 8Musée de l'imprimerie de Lyon
LyonMusée 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. 9Soierie Vivante
LyonIn the Soierie Vivante museum, visitors can visit the workshop to learn more about weaving techniques and experience the technique of weaving by themselves. 10Musee UrbainTony Garnier
LyonMusee 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.