text: **Museums**
  
  Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon (*Fine Arts Museum*), main museum of the city and one of the larger art 
  galleries in France. Housed in the Palais Saint Pierre, a former 17th-century convent, it displays a major 
  collection of paintings by artists (including Tintoretto; Paolo Veronese; Nicolas Poussin; Rubens; Rembrandt; 
  Zurbaran; Canaletto; Delacroix; Monet; Gauguin; Van Gogh; Cézanne; Matisse; Picasso; Francis Bacon...); 
  collections of sculptures, drawings and printings, decorative arts, Roman and Greek antiquities; the second 
  largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in France after that of the Louvre; and a medal cabinet of 50.000 
  medals and coins. 