Musée des Confluences

Beyond a geographic location that defines the Confluence Museum - bringing quite correctly his name - is a philosophy of the game, a taste of the exchange of intelligence viewpoints.

This dynamic project, backed issues, contemporary issues and challenges, is unprecedented in the world of multiple European museums today. Its purpose and ambition are to question the "long time" the only way to understand the complexity of the world and of ensuring its fundamental mission of disseminating knowledge.

 The museum has a heritage more than 2.2 million objects gradually gathered into a story of half a millennium, the seventeenth to the twenty-first century.

It's the Earth from the beginning, and humanity in its history and geography as the Confluence Museum asks.

Starting from its collections, it combines the latest research in all fields of science and technology, archeology and ethnology, museology and mediation of knowledge. With the challenge to address the greatest number, the museum invites all disciplines to arouse curiosity, questioning, the pleasure of understanding and desire for knowledge.