Musée d'Art Contemporain

Located at the Cité Internationale, the Museum of Contemporary Art, near the banks of the Rhône and the Parc de la Tete d'Or, is nestled in a pleasant setting. The contemporary art museums collect works created by living artists. They are therefore looking to the current artistic without the most immediate, however, ignores the history of recent art. At its inception in 1984, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon aims to be the collection of contemporary art is missing from the Museum of Fine Arts. To fulfill this mission, he chose to develop a policy of producing works of art supported by a program of exhibitions to date.