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Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon

Created in 1984, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (Museum of Contemporary Art Lyon) moved to the Cité Internationale in December 1995 to a building specially designed by Renzo Piano. The museum boasts three floors of exhibition space and a total surface area of 2,800 m2. Thanks to its fully modular interior, the exhibition space can be transformed with each new artistic project.


Created in 1984, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (Museum of Contemporary Art Lyon) moved to the Cité Internationale in December 1995 to a building specially designed by Renzo Piano. The museum boasts three floors of exhibition space and a total surface area of 2,800 m2. 

Thanks to its fully modular interior, the exhibition space can be transformed with each new artistic project. A new museum reopens for each exhibition!

The museum shows current national and international artists. Exhibitions, often co-produced with international institutions, focus on all forms of modernity: from sound (La Monte Young, Laurie Anderson, John Cage) to installation (Sophie Calle, Cai Guo Qiang); from choreography (Anna Halprin, Trisha Brown) to painting (Marc Desgrandchamps, Keith Haring, Ben, Robert Combas), and from video (Bill Viola) to performance (Jan Fabre).

Since its creation, the museum privileges a unique policy in terms of collections: it collects exhibitions, which are produced in close collaboration with the artists. There are currently more than 1,300 works of art in its collections which include a large number of monumental works: works over 1,000 m2 by artists such as Robert Morris, Abramovic and Ulay. The entirety of the museum’s collections, if displayed simultaneously, would require over 30,000 m2 of exhibition space.

Every 2 years, the museum welcomes the Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, its artistic direction being entrusted to Thierry Raspail, director of the macLYON. Furthermore, every 2 or 3 years the museum hosts a large monographic exhibition devoting all three floors of exhibition space to a single artist. Exhibitions have included Andy Warhol in 2005, Keith Haring in 2008, Ben in 2010, Robert Combas in 2012 … and Erró in 2014!


ACCESSIBILITY

People with reduced mobility can access the museum by the entrance located to the side of the cinema. This entrance is a priority access to the museum. 

Disabled persons and the person accompanying them may enter free of charge.

The museum is officially approved Tourisme & Handicap.


HOW TO REACH

PUBLIC TRANSPORTS
Informations : TCL
Bus : Line C1, C4, C5 stop Musée d'art contemporain

FROM RAILWAY STATIONS
Part-Dieu: Direct bus line C1, stop Musée d'art contemporain.
Perrache: Subway line A as far as Cordeliers station, and connection by bus line C5, stop Musée d'art contemporain.

FROM THE AIRPORT
Saint-Exupéry: Shuttle service as far as Part-Dieu railway station and connection by bus line C1, stop Musée d'art contemporain

TWO-WHEELED VEHICLES
Bicycles and two-wheeled vehicles can be parked in front of the entrance to the museum on the park side.
The Velo'v station (bicycle hire service, 1/2 hour free, with a credit card or a TCL card) is located near the museum.

BY CAR
ACCESS FROM NORTH – HIGHWAY A6 (PARIS)
A6 direction Lyon, Limonest, Ecully
Périphérique Nord (Téo), exit 4 Porte de Saint-Clair
Go accross the Rhône and direction Cité Internationale.

ACCESS FROM SOUTH – HIGHWAY A7 (NICE, MARSEILLE)
A7 direction Lyon, Feyzin
Exit Lyon Centre – Perrache
Follow Rhône's quays as far as cours d'Herbouville
At right, go accross Winston Churchill's bridge
At left direction Cité Internationale.

ACCESS FROM GRENOBLE / GENÈVE – HIGHWAY A43
Exit 16 direction Lyon Centre, Porte de Gerland
Take avenue Tony Garnier as far as Pasteur's bridge
Follow Rhône's quays as far as cours d'Herbouville
At right, go accross Winston Churchill's bridge
At left direction Cité Internationale.

PARKING
CARS
3 non-free car parks around the museum.
3350 parking spaces are available, 7 days/7 and 24 h/24.

Preferential rate for museum visitors
at Parkings Lyon Parc Auto P0, 80 quai Charles de Gaulle.
45 minutes offered

BUS
Access from quay Charles de Gaulle.
Free parking of the Convention Centre (50 quai Charles de Gaulle).


ADMISSION

Full: 9 €
Reduced: 6 €


VISITOR INFO

OPENING HOURS: next days Thu  11:00-18:00
Fri  11:00-18:00
Sat  10:00-19:00
Sun  10:00-19:00
Wed  11:00-18:00
Thu  11:00-18:00

ADDRESS:
Cité Internationale
81 Quai Charles de Gaulle
69006 Lyon
Rhône-Alpes
France

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