The Musée des Confluences stands at the southern tip of Lyon's Presqu'île, where the Rhône and Saône meet. The Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au designed it, and the article calls it Deconstructivist. It resembles a floating crystal cloud of stainless steel and glass. The museum is 144 feet (44 m) high, 492 feet (150 m) long and 272 feet (83 m) wide, with 22,000 square meters of floor area.
It is a science center and anthropology museum with collections from the Musée d'histoire naturelle – Guimet. Four permanent and five temporary exhibitions run at once. They include Origins, Species, Societies and Eternities. The infobox counts about 2.2 million items.
It opened on December 20, 2014, as part of the Confluence district redevelopment. A 153 million euro budget was forecast to approach 300 million euros, which the article calls controversial. It drew 680,583 visitors in 2018. The article gives no hours.
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