Museum of Fine Arts

The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon is a municipal museum of fine arts in Lyon. It is housed near place des Terreaux in a former Benedictine convent of the 17th and 18th centuries. Housed in a wonderful structure, the Lyon Museum of Fine Arts is the city's center for artistic works. More than 70 rooms display one of the finest art collections in all of France, including an outsanding array of antiquities and artwork, more than 600 Ancient Egyptian pieces, rare Asian ceramics and the second-largest numismatic collection in the country. Thirty-five rooms are dedicated to European paintings, from classic artists such as El Greco and Rembrandt to more modern masters such as Picasso and Renoir.