Spend an afternoon at the Musée des Beaux-Arts
Place des Terreaux, France
Lyon’s fine arts museum occupies a former abbey beside Place des Terreaux. Egyptian antiquities, paintings, sculpture and decorative arts give you several ways into the collection, so choose a few rooms rather than trying to see everything at once. Displays change, so check which collections are on view before choosing your route. Pause in the cloister garden between galleries, and check the temporary exhibition programme when planning how long to stay.