Museums 1 and 2 - Textile museum and Decorative Arts museum.The first was a mixture of the history of fabrics, from Egyptian material to modern silk couture dresses, and modern chairs, chaises and deco-structured sofas covered in such fabrics. Some of these chairs were placed in amongst the 17th,18th, and 19th century rooms.
The decorative arts included gold smithing, ceramics, dressmaking, furniture and much more ... albeit in small doses.
Don relaxing at the end of the first museum, amidst some of the new outdoor furniture designs.
Museums 3 and 4 were in the Gadagne buildings, formerly a large merchant household with Italianate architecture, formerly home to perhaps 200 people.
First was the History of Lyon -- although very interesting this comprised 30 rooms each with information to read, so a book might have been simpler!
A famous Lyonnaise person called Jacquard Invented the jacquard loom. It is card-fed, a precursor to Babbage and piano rolls.
Museum 3 was a puppet museum, the excuse being the famous Lyon puppet Guignol. The museum however also covered the history of French and English puppets and touched on puppets from other parts of the world. Yes, the Thunderbirds were represented via video.
Below, Pierrot.
And now a puppet from Czechosovakia.
And Old Mother Shipton, an English puppet in the Punch and Judy repertoire.
We finally escaped endless trips through old buildings with a short boat trip up the Saône.
Near Crois Rousse, buildings with high ceilings and lots of light to enable the weavers to work at their (quite tall) looms.
Old Lyon is a UNESCO world heritage walled city, and you can see parts of the old fort and wall in spots.
Isle Barbe ... where someone famous wanted to live but he was sent to prison! Also a restaurant of Paul Bocuse....
Back to Lyonnaise for dinner. Pig's trotter crostillant ...
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