A celebration of MUSE at the Observatoire de Lyon

On 6–7 September 2013, the Observatoire de Lyon opened its doors to the press and scientific community for two days of presentations, tours of the recently completed MUSE instrument for ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. In attendance were the French Minister of Higher Education and Research, Geneviève Fioraso and the ESO Director General, Tim de Zeeuw.

This picture shows, from left to right, Tim de Zeeuw, Director General of ESO, Gérard Collomb, sénateur-maire de Lyon, François-Noël Gilly, président de l'université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Geneviève Fioraso, ministre de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche and Roland Bacon, Principal Investigator of MUSE.