Individual visit

The visitor’s itinerary was built on three different reading levels: history, seasons and liturgy. The different testimonials and films will enable you:

-          to understand the different steps in the life of a carthusian monk

Grande Chartreuse Museum Cloister-   to learn more about the Order’s turbulent history over the years   

-          to know more about their everyday life

 

You will find:

-          the reconstitution of a monk’s hermitage

Hermitage

-    a room devoted to Dom le Masson, the rebuilder of the Grande Chartreuse as it is today

-  the many steps of the restoration of a Charterhouse painting and the wonderful work of the restorerGallery of Maps of Chartreuse

-        Model of the Grande Chartreuse Monastery  the renaissance room, which combines a model of the monastery and 6 European Charterhouse paintings, to better understand the link between the Grande Chartreuse and the other Houses of the Order

-          the library, with more than 300 books and a virtual version of the Casalibus Bible.Museum library