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Lyon's Musée des Confluence: a journey through space and time

2015-01-12 9 Dailymotion

A colossal building of glass and steel – more than a decade in the making, and nearly 300 million euros later, Lyon’s new Musée des Confluences has finally opened its doors. <br /><br /> Impossible to miss, it is located at the southern entrance to the city where the Rhone and the Saone rivers meet. <br /><br /> “This museum carries its name very well. Beyond its geographic location, it really is a meeting point, a place that offers exchange, a fresh perspective, the intelligence of a new outlook because we take a cross-cutting look on our collections and all our subjects are treated in a multi-disciplinary manner,” says the museum’s director, Hélène Lafont-Couturier.<br /><br /> A massive glass hall leads to the numerous, darkened exhibition rooms, that cover an impressive 5,000 square meters. <br /><br /> The Musée des Confluences contains a unique collection of 2 million objects from every continent with the aim of “telling the story of humankind”. <br /><br /> “The questions we ask are philosophical, but are nevertheless access

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