Musée des Confluences
Deconstructed glass-and-steel cloud rising over docks that once stored sugar, salt, and wine.
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This guide to the Musée des Confluences in Lyon starts on the quay at the point where the Rhône and the Saône meet, on the last day of a particular year, when something ended on the very spot where you stand. It looks back at the working port that once stood here, with its barges, rail tracks and warehouses, and at the Austrian architects behind the building and the argument over its budget. Best heard on the plaza, with the old sugar warehouse up the quay in view.
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