The Museum of Fabrics and the Museum of Decorative Arts are located in a former mansion of the 18th century, which belonged to the governor of Lyon, the Duke of Villers, and are adjacent to each other. A ticket bought in one museum is valid in another.
The fabric museum, dedicated to the thousands of years of history of textiles, presents ancient Egyptian linen and silk tapestries, fabrics from Asia and Europe, samples of Lyon silk, which was used to decorate the apartments of Marie Antoinette in Versailles and the Russian Empress Catherine the Great, as wallpaper.
The Museum of Decorative Arts presents furniture, Chinese porcelain and silver, Italian majolica of the Renaissance, jewelry of the 18th century, and bronzes. In the museum you can visit the reconstructed rooms of the 18th century, with a detailed reproduction of the era, where you will see a harpsichord from the beginning of the 18th century with two keyboards and a unique clock equipped with a fountain with a songbird in a cage.