RS states in his 2022 France book that the Confluence Museum can be skipped, but the area is worth a visit. A post recently stated that they loved the museum. I read a description and seems quite different. Any visitors out there with feedback? Time is precious when traveling.
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Sapulpa, OK, USA
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In Lyon, right? I haven't been yet, but I'm planning on see it this fall.
We have found that any time Rick calls a museum "skippable," we're sure to enjoy it. Fodor's said the Confluence Museum was delightful, innovative, and exciting (or words to that effect; I returned the book to the library yesterday!)
Take a look at Fodor's or another guidebook; never a bad idea, by the way, to get more than one point of view.
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big blue marble
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It's a natural history museum, and a pretty good one at that.
If natural history is not your thing, it's skippable.
If it interests you, it's worth a visit.
I'm not sure the area immediately around the Confluence Museum is worth a visit. It's basically an old industrial brownfields area that, for the past decade or so has been under heavy reconstruction with new buildings housing businesses, apartments, a shopping mall, and similar types of uses. Before then, it was Lyon's equivalent to a red light district.
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Sapulpa, OK, USA
6721 posts
Ooooh, Francis, I can't wait! We'll be there in October.
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I visited the Confluence Museum when I was in Lyon and really enjoyed it. Also the Resistance Museum was outstanding. The Miniatures Museum was very entertaining. I had the Lyon Card which also includes transportation. Enjoy!!
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I visited the Musée des confluences several years ago right after it opened. My feeling from that visit - thus possibly out of date - is that it's not so much a natural history museum as an anthropology museum. There were lots of interesting things to look at, but they were poorly labeled. However, I found the building itself to be well worth a visit. It's really intriguing. Similarly, the Fondation Vuitton in Paris.
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Seattle, WA
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Not very recently, but maybe recently enough (2019) we spent 3 nights in Lyon and made very good use of the city card. My husband and I loved the Confluence Museum.
We also visited and enjoyed the Resistance, Beaux Art, Textile, Lumiere, Cinema/Miniature, the Puppet Museum and took the very good boat tour.
The setting, building and displays at the Confluence were all very interesting and really well presented. I think what we may have enjoyed the most was how different the Confluence was from the fine art and history museums we’d visited. It was a bit of a museum palette cleanser.