Lyon's Centre d'Histoire de la Resistance et de la Deportation is one of the city's most important history museums, housed in a place directly tied to wartime repression. Its exhibitions examine resistance networks, occupation, deportation, propaganda, and memory with the seriousness the subject demands.
It is a sobering but essential counterpoint to Lyon's Roman, Renaissance, and culinary pleasures. Allow enough time to read and absorb the material; this is not a museum to rush between meals.