The Musée gallo-romain was inaugurated in 1975. Bernard Zehrfuss designed the museum's interior as a concrete spiral ("helical ramp," according to the museum's website). The highlight of the collection is the Lyon Tablet, a bronze tablet with Emperor Claudius' request to the Roman senate to permit the people of Lugdunum to run for magisterial office.
It is set on the Fourviere hill at the center of what was the Roman colony of Lugdunum [see Latin names for places in Gaul (France)], which L. Munatius Plancus, proconsul of Gallia comata 'long-haired Gaul', founded in 43 B.C. The museum is set amid the archaeological ruins by the Roman theater, which you can see from the inside of the museum.
The location of the museum is classified a UNESCO world heritage site.
