Musée des géomètres-experts de la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Small professional museum in Lyon on the history of the chartered surveyor profession (géomètre-expert): over 200 instruments and a library, free visit by appointment.
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About the museum
The Musée des géomètres-experts is housed in the Maison du Géomètre on the cours Charlemagne in Lyon. It was created in 1989 and extended in November 1996. It is a museum for the profession itself, devoted to the history of the géomètre-expert's trade.
The collection includes more than 200 items: surveying, cosmography, drawing and drafting instruments. It is complemented by a library holding books on the profession, maps and old surveyors' plans, judicial expert reports and dictionaries of local and professional usage.
Highlights
- Over 200 surveying, cosmography, drafting and drawing instruments
- Professional library with maps and old plans
- Court expert reports and dictionaries of local usage
- Free visit by appointment
- Founded
- 1989
Admission & discounts
Admission is free.
Free visit.
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