Protestantism Museum

Details of the activity

It allows you to travel through five centuries of Protestant history and life in the Tarn and more broadly in the South-West. His visit is built around strong moments: the Reformation, the Edict of Nantes, the Revocation in 1685 and the time of the Desert, the reintegration and the success of Protestants in contemporary times, the Dreyfus affair and the 1940s. is also a museum of religious facts, proposing to discover a faith, practices, religious institutions, but also a vision of the world, a culture by showing the particular relationships that the Protestant minority has maintained with politics, social, economy, art and memory. We discover Bibles, psalters, objects of worship (prohibited or authorized), as well as elements relating to literacy or the industrialization of the country, depending on the role played by Protestants in these areas. Several stories, directly or implicitly, intertwine their links here: those of the Huguenot world, of Catholicism, of secularism, but also, sometimes, of Judaism, and that of the ever sensitive relationship between the city of men and the city of God... Thus the visitor is invited to a fully historical, secular, comparative journey. With this hope, if not the certainty, that “knowing one's past and that of the other is one of the best ways of learning to live together” (Patrick Cabanel, curator). The museum is a structuring player in its territory through the diversity and quality of the offer of cultural events (exhibitions, conferences, heritage cafés, concerts, workshops, discovery walks, etc.) that it sets up throughout its the year for tourists in season, but also and above all for the inhabitants of the territory. The Musée du protestantisme de Ferrières, musée de France, is led and managed by an association under the 1901 law which has more than 200 members, including around thirty volunteers who are actively involved in its various activities.