Overall view looking across the Rhone. Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France. Architect: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, 2015.

Overall view looking across the Rhone. Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France. Architect: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, 2015. Stock Photo
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23 February 2015

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The Musée des Confluences is a science centre and anthropology museum which opened on 20 December 2014 in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, (Rhône), France. It is located at the southern tip of the Presqu'île at the confluence of the Rhône and the Saône, adjacent to Autoroute A7, and comprises part of a larger redevelopment project of the Confluence quarter of Lyon. The deconstructivist architectural design, said to resemble a floating crystal cloud of stainless steel and glass, [1] was created by the Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au. The museum includes collections of natural science, anthropology, and Earth Sciences of the Musée d'histoire naturelle - Guimet. These collections will be supplemented by exhibitions of arts and crafts. The three major exhibitions deal with the questions "Where do we come from ?, "Who are we ?" and "What do we do ?".