Sábado 19 septiembre, 10:30

Setembre 2026

Dissabte 19
- 10:30 - 12:00

Bibliothèque municipale de la Part-dieu

30 boulevard Vivier Merle, 69003 Lyon 03

Rhône

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Architectural discovery of the Part-Dieu library

Name: Descubrimiento arquitectónico de la biblioteca Part-Dieu
Start: 2026-09-19T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-19T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Bibliothèque municipale de la Part-dieu

The library offers you an architectural tour of its building inaugurated in December 1972.

Sábado 19 septiembre, 10:30

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The library offers you an architectural tour of its building inaugurated in December 1972.

Setembre 2026

Dissabte 19
- 10:30 - 12:00

Additionnal information

Manifestation

Journées Européennes du Patrimoine

Acerca del lugar

Bibliothèque municipale de la Part-dieu

30 boulevard Vivier Merle, 69003 Lyon 03

Rhône

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

The Library opened by Louis Pradel, Mayor of Lyon, on December 6, 1972, consists of two structures. One, open to the public, extends over 5 floors horizontally. The other, called the silo, is the great dark vertical tower that stands in front of you. Its 17 floors contain storage stores, for a total of 90 km of shelving. Each floor can hold four to five linear kilometres of shelving. The climatic conditions are controlled, by ventilation, in order to preserve the documents at best: the temperature (18°C) and the hygrometry rate (50% humidity) are kept constant throughout the year, the most important thing for the old bottoms is to avoid sudden variations in temperature. A mechanical book hoist (the "pater noster") allows the transport of documents, between the floors, to the distribution banks. The Silo contains more than 2.4 million documents, rare and precious works, newspapers and magazines, books, microsillons, posters, prints, postcards, photographs ... With all these documents, t

Etiquetas

Musée, salle d'exposition

Acceso

Gare de la Part Dieu, T1, T3, Metro line B stop Part Dieu, C7, C1, C2 vélo'v Cuirassiers: corner rue Bouchut Vivier Merle: Behind the tram station Part-Dieu/ Gare SNCF

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Setembre 2026

Architektonische Entdeckung der Part-Dieu-Bibliothek

Architectural discovery of the Part-Dieu library

Scoperta architettonica della biblioteca Part-Dieu

Découverte architecturale de la bibliothèque Part-Dieu

Descubrimiento arquitectónico de la biblioteca Part-Dieu

Setembre 2026