• The Louvre museum and the Lugdunum museum in Lyon signed an agreement on Friday.

  • This partnership will allow the Lyon establishment to be loaned pieces from the Louvre collections for its future exhibitions.

  • It will also be a question of revitalizing attendance at the Gallo-Roman museum in Lyon.

The metropolis of Lyon signed a partnership with the Louvre on Friday intended to enrich the collections of the Lugdunum museum, better known as the Gallo-Roman museum.

The objective is also to develop scientific exchanges between establishments.

Thanks to this agreement, the Lyon museum, located on the Fourvière hill near the ancient theaters, will be able to "benefit from privileged loans" for its temporary exhibitions, according to its director, Claire Iselin.

About twenty pieces will arrive in October for an exhibition devoted to the theme of power, including two “monumental” statues of the Roman Emperor Augustus and his wife Livia.

Works on deposit across France

The partnership will also make it possible to enrich the permanent visit route by depositing works of the Louvre.

For now, the Lugdunum museum exhibits two, a bust of Emperor Caracalla (born in Lyon) and a statue of Diana, goddess of the hunt.

The Louvre, which has already forged partnerships with the ancient museums of Arles and Nîmes, is a "national" museum of which 35,000 works are on deposit across France, that is to say as many as the works exhibited in its Parisian galleries, underlines its Chairman and Director, Jean-Luc Martinez.

The agreement he signed on Friday with Bruno Bernard, president of the metropolis of Lyon, and Cédric Van Styvendael, vice-president in charge of Culture, finally aims to carry out scientific projects and exchange practices.

Boost attendance at the Gallo-Roman museum

Aware that the museum's museography is aging, Bruno Bernard hopes to revitalize its attendance.

“We hope to attract more people to this museum which needs a second wind,” he explains.

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A major rehabilitation project will soon be launched on a first level of the Lyon museum, which will accommodate a Gallo-Roman barge from the 2nd century (flat-bottomed boat for transporting goods, note), discovered in 2004 during excavations on the banks of the the Saône, central part of a scenography devoted to trade.

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