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dows to let in light and hefty wood-beamed ceilings more than 4m high to accom-
modate the huge new machines.
MAISON DES CANUTS
( 04 78 28 62 04;
www.maisondescanuts.com
; 10-12 rue d'Ivry, 4e; adult/child €6/
3; 10am-6pm Tue-Sat, guided tours 11am & 3.30pm; Croix Rousse)
On a guided
tour, learn about weavers' labour-intensive life and the industry's evolution, see
manual looms in use and browse its silk boutique.
Silk Museum
Atelier de Passementerie
( 04 78 27 17 13;
www.soierie-vivante.asso.fr
;
21 rue Richan, 4e; guided tour adult/
child €5/3; 2-6.30pm Tue, 9am-noon & 2-6.30pm Wed-Sat, guided tours & loom
demonstrations 2pm & 4pm Tue-Sat;
Silk Workshop
Croix Rousse)
Trimmings workshop that
functioned until 1979.
Rive Gauche
MUSÉE LUMIÈRE
(
www.institut-lumiere.org
; 25 rue du Premier Film, 8e; adult/child €6/5, audiogude
€3; 11am-6.30pm Tue-Sun; Monplaisir-Lumière)
Cinema's glorious beginnings
are showcased at the art nouveau home of Antoine Lumière, 3km southeast of
place Bellecour along cours Gambetta, who moved to Lyon with sons Auguste and
Louis in 1870. The brothers shot the first reels of the world's first motion picture,
La
Sortie des Usines Lumières
(Exit of the Lumières Factories) in one of their father's
photographic factories in the grounds on 19 March 1895. Today the former factory
houses the Hangar du Premier Film cinema.
Film Museum
Tours
WALKING TOURS
(adult/child €9/5)
The tourist office organises a variety of English-language tours
through Vieux Lyon and Croix Rousse, and several others in French.
Walking Tour
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