The Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon is a library in Lyon, France. In addition to providing standard library services it also hosts a variety of special collections, in particular in the fields of photography, Lyon and the Rhône-Alpes département, old books, textiles, music, contemporary art and literature. It holds one of the largest collection in Europe with more than 3.2 million items, including 1,5 million books, 203,500 old master prints and 670,000 photographs Source: Wikipedia (en)