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Chalon-sur-Saône, Musée Nicéphore Niépce

Visiting the Nicéphore Niépce museum

is to ask questions about one's relationship with images,
is to discover photography, from the invention by Nicéphore Niépce up until digital technologies,
is to dive into the multiple histories of photography, its aesthetic and documentary adventures, and its popular and commercial uses.

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Romanèche-Thorins, Musée Départemental du Compagnonnage Pierre-François Guillon
The museum presents the history of a guild through the collection of a member of the carpenters' guild, Pierre-François Guillon.

Cluny, Musée d'art et d'archéologie, Palais Jean de Bourbon
An independent residential building, the palace built by the Abbot Jean de Bourbon in the second half of the 15th century, close to the main entrance, occupies a special position above the site of the abbey of Cluny.
It was spared the vandalism of the Revolution and was then purchased by a resident of Cluny, Jean-Baptiste Ochier. It assumed its present role as museum following a gift by the widow of a Cluny doctor in 1864. Two years later the new museum opened its doors.

Mâcon, Musée des Ursulines
Set in a 17th century building, the museum of the Ursulines develops regional archeology and ethnography collections. The Fine Arts section is particularly rich in paintings from the 16th to the 20th century.

Mâcon, Musée Lamartine
The Lamartine Museum occupies the first floor of the Seneca Mansion, acquired in 1896 by the Mâcon Academy. Created by it in 1969 to mark the centenary of the poet's death, it was renovated in 1990 by the town of Mâcon, which took over its operation and management.

Solutré, Musée départemental de Préhistoire

The Solutré Museum presents the collections from one of the richest prehistoric sites in Europe. This was a hunting site used for for over 25,000 years by men of the Upper Paleolithic Age (from 35,000 to 10,000 B.C.), who came to hunt, dismember and smoke thousands of horses and reindeer. The Solutré archeological and botanical park, laid out on the archeological site, completes the visit to the museum. It lets you discover a wide variety of vegetable species that are characteristic of this area as well as the key results of the archeological digs.