Museums and Partners – Musée protestant

Paris, salle de lecture de la bibliothèque de la SHPF

The Society for the History of French Protestantism

Of what use is the history of Protestantism ? Since one hundred fifty years, the Society of the History of French Protestantism (SHPF) has never avoided the question but it has...

Moule à méreau de l'église de La Tremblade

The House of Protestantism in Charentes

The House of Protestantism in Charentes was created in 1994 and it was set up as a memorial to the history of Protestantism in Aunis and Saintonge.

Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort House (Dugas Foundation)

The Huguenot memorial in Ile Sainte-Marguerite

Along with the Castle of If, in Marseilles, the Tower of Constance, in Aigues-Mortes, and the Fort of Brescou, in Agde, the fort on the île Sainte-Marguerite is one of...

The Châtillon-Coligny Museum

This museum is situated in the former local hospital and here you can find an exhibition on the Coligny family and the French Protestants in the XVIth century.

The French Protestant Museum of the West of France

12 kilometers south-west of Pouzauges, in “Le Bois Tiffrais” (or Tiffray), in the commune of Monsireigne, the Société d’histoire du protestantisme français has set up a museum in a building...

In this traditionally deeply protestant region, this hostile environment has had its effect on the local inhabitants : farmers here had to be tough, uncompromising, brave and with great willpower to...

The Désert museum

The “Désert” period in French Protestantism lasted from the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIIV (1685) to the Edict of Tolerance (1787), when Louis XVI restored civil...

The House of Protestantism in Poitou

Since 1987, The House of Protestantism in Poitou, in the Inter-regional Park of the Marais Poitevin, has been a useful source of information abut the history of protestantism in Poitou...

Protestant Museum of the Dauphiné

The protestant museum of the Dauphiné is situated in a XVth century building which became a temple two centuries later. Together with the temple of Collet de Dèze in Lozère,...

Musée du protestantisme de Ferrières

Fondé en 1968, installé en 2010 dans ses nouveaux murs, le Musée de Ferrières a une double ambition qui fait son originalité.

Museum of Protestantism in the Vivarais region

The Museum of Protestantism in the Vivarais can be found in a XVth century fortified building, built in the Boutières style typical of the Ardèche, and classified as a historical...

International Museum of the Reformation (Geneva)

An interactive introduction to Protestantism from the XVIth to the XXIst century

Jean Calvin museum

Noyon is one of the largest historical cities in the north of France, situated 100km north of Paris. From 531 onwards it was a bishop’s see, (the first bishop was...

Jean-Frédéric Oberlin Museum

The subject of the Oberlin museum is Jean-Frédéric Oberlin (1740-1826), a pastor noted for his new approach to agriculture and teaching. He was also a forerunner of social Christianity.

Maison de Jeanne d'Albret à Orthez (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)

Jeanne d’Albret Museum, the history of Protestantism in Béarn

Reconstitution du cabinet de travail de Pierre Bayle

Pierre Bayle Museum

The protestant Museum in the Wassy barn

On the 1st March 1562, the Duc de Guise went to celebrate mass in Wassy and on his way back, forced open the doors of the barn where a thousand...

Temple de la Rochelle (17) : ancienne église des Récollets

Museum of protestant history in La Rochelle

This museum was funded in 1931 by the pastor Samuel Eynard and entirely renovated in 1995. It is now installed in rooms near the temple looking out onto an inner...

The Huguenot history association of Ardèche

Patrimoine huguenot d’Ardèche, a historical association of Protestantism in the Vivarais region, (which comes under the 1901 law controlling all associations in France), has been giving information about the history...

Société d’études du méthodisme français

Des millions de personnes de par le monde suivent encore les méthodes de John Wesley, qui est considéré par beaucoup comme un grand réformateur et qui a dit : «...

Maison d'Albert Schweitzer, Gunsbach, Haut Rhin

Albert Schweitzer’s House in Gunsbach

Société de l’histoire du protestantisme dans la vallée de la Dordogne

La Société de l’histoire du protestantisme dans la vallée de la Dordogne (SHPVD), créée en 1994, est un centre d’archives, de renseignements et une bibliothèque. Elle est située à Sainte-Foy-la-Grande...

Sur les pas des Huguenots

Du Poët-Laval (Drôme) à Bad Karlshafen (Allemagne), en passant par Genève, un itinéraire culturel européen marche sur les traces de l’exil des Huguenots dauphinois, au lendemain de la révocation de...