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Photo: © Coop Himmelb(l)au
It stands 190 metres long, 90 metres wide and a good 40 metres
high. 14,000 m² of bead-blasted stainless steel, concrete and
glass dominate the façade of the Musée des Confluences in the
French city of Lyon. This futuristic building in the form of a crystal
cloud was designed by the Vienna based firm of architects Coop
Himmelb(l)au.
The museum, which is located at the confluence of the Rhône and
Saône rivers, opened its doors on 21 December 2014. It is the first
museum in France to bring together more than two million works
from ethnological and natural science collections under one roof.
Visitors who enter the 24,000 m² building can move between open
and enclosed exhibition spaces as if following the course of a
river and explore the vast world of knowledge among the many
ramps, walkways and floors.
Colossal knowledge store
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