October - March
Closed Sundays, Mondays and Public Holidays
April - September
Closed Sundays and Public Holidays
10 h - 12 h & 14 h - 18 h.
Annual holidays: Last three weeks in January
The museum is situated in Orthez, capital of the Bearn in the 16th century. It was the only capital and the only region of France to have protestantism as its official language.
The museum retraces the history of the reformation of the 16th - 21st century. The exhibition shows the emergence of Calvinism under the reigns of Jeanne d'Albret and Henri IV, also the actions of the reformers Pierre Viret and Lambert Daneau in this little independent country.
Documents, engravings and original objects of persecution endured under Louis XIV and until the French revolution.
It carries you more than four centuries through the story of the protestant church and the Free Evangelical Church.
