Our region shows a difficult journey to peace, comprehension and respect of ideas as it was deeply marked by Reformation from the XVIth century, by persecutions from the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, by departures to European places of safety.

The main exhibition through centuries insists on the importance of the Bible for Protestants and makes visitors think over the present religious confrontations by comparing them to past ones.

Every year a temporary exhibition on a chosen theme completes the permanent one.
An advanced student in history is in charge of the visits in July and August and volunteers of the Association are the rest of the year.

When visiting the museum of Protestantism in Haut-Languedoc visitors will notice two interesting points: first of all the local churches that have been influenced by the rites of French Protestantism as a whole, with real specificities however; then the apparent paradox between the withdrawal into their granite area and their "desert" and the opening onto the world through intellectual life, economy and the welcoming of refugees.

The Tarn Mountains, like the Cévènnes and the Chambon sur Lignon Plateau deserve to exist on the map of freedom of thought which was first "freedom of conscience".