The future of the Guimet museum continues to divide the environmentalist majority. The place, opened in 1879 and big brother of the homonymous museum in Paris, has been closed since 2007.
In September 2023, the latter had already made it known that it did not support the hypothesis of “a sale to the highest bidder ” The Deputy for Culture had also repeatedly raised a dissenting voice regarding the spraying of a painting by Monet by environmental activists. The mayor of Lyon said he “regretted the action’ while believing that “in the face of the climate emergency, anxiety is legitimate”