Maison des Canuts and the Croix-Rousse Slopes

The Maison des Canuts is a silk-weaving museum and working workshop at 10-12 Rue d'Ivry on the Croix-Rousse hill in Lyon's 4th arrondissement, in France's Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The Croix-Rousse was the district of the canuts, the silk workers who powered Lyon's textile industry from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and the museum explains their trade, working conditions and the revolts of the 1830s. Exhibition rooms present looms, tools and silk samples, while the working workshop shows weavers operating traditional looms, including the Jacquard mechanism that revolutionised pattern weaving. A shop sells silk scarves and textiles made in the region. Guided visits, reported on Tuesday to Saturday at 11:00AM and 3:30PM, lead through the workshop with commentary, and a longer option combines the visit with the traboules, covered passages linking the slopes of the hill. A Saturday traboule walk is reported at 3:30PM until 19 December 2026. The museum is open Tuesday to Friday from 10:00AM to 1:00PM and 2:00PM to 6:00PM and on Saturday from 10:00AM to 6:00PM, and closed on Sunday, Monday and public holidays. Prices are about €3 for the exhibition rooms, €10 for a guided visit and €18 including traboules, with reduced rates for students and free entry for children up to 11. A visit lasts one to two and a half hours depending on the option chosen. Metro C to Croix-Rousse is about five minutes on foot. The surrounding slopes, with their tall workshop buildings and large windows built to hold looms, make a good walking area, and the market on Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse adds local colour. Late morning on Tuesday to Saturday is best for the weaving demonstration.