Visit to Lyon
Last June I visited Lyon, a very beautiful city of France. Among other interesting things to do, I visited the Lumière Museum.
The Lumière brothers and Museum
Dedicated to the Lumière Cinematograph and the history of the Lumière family, the Lumière Museum revisits the various technical creations of Louis and Auguste Lumière. It explores the process of inventing the cinema, from the first experiments that took place around the world to the filming and commercialization of the Lumière films.
Visitors are able to discover unique objects in the villa of the Lumiere (see below).
Various displays also provide insight into the artistic, intellectual and industrial history of the era.
The Lumière brothers were ingenious engineers. They designed devices such as, e.g.,
- the Photorama (for 360 degrees panoramic pictures) and
- the stereoscopic projector (for 3D films, before Avatar!!!).
They were also artists. Indeed, part of the museum is dedicated to their other great invention, the Autochrome plates.
The Lumières were also interested in other disciplines (i.e., sound, mechanics or medical research).
Visitors can see exhibits of several technical masterpieces, such as:
- Edison’s kinetoscope
- the Demenÿ chronophotograph
- the “N°1” Lumière Cinematograph that screened the first ten films on 28 December 1895, at the Grand Café in Paris, before the 33 spectators of the first fee-paying public screening.
Hollywood, the City of Women
At the time of my visit, there was also a photographic exhibition at the Lumière Institute Hollywood, the City of Women. It was dedicated to actresses who embodied the golden age of Hollywood from 1930 to 1955. In previous posts I have made reference to some of them.
If you travel to Lyon, which by the way is worth visiting for many reasons, don’t miss the Lumière Museum.
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