Lyon Ainay, Musée des Arts Décoratifs

On your left at No. 32, you pass the former Hotel de Lacroix-Laval (Jean de Lacroix-Laval was mayor of Lyon from 1826 to 1830) which has belonged to the Chamber of Commerce of Lyon since 1925. It was built by Jacques Germain Soufflot in 1739 in a simple style with little decoration. It houses the Museum of Decorative Arts (entrance 34 Rue de la Charité) which is mainly dedicated to aristocratic life in the eighteenth century: decoration, furniture, tapestries, ceramics, porcelain, art objects, weapons, ...