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In the middle of a hamlet in the region Cévennes and of its typical alleys, in the native house of the camisard leader Rolland, through pieces and authentic documents... The museum of the Desert put back to the present the Huguenot past.
Particularly, after an audiovisual presentation of the Reformation :
- the period called the "desert" ( 1685-1787), about the revolution of the Edict of Nantes and the Edict of Tolerance,
- The war of the camisards, the repression and the resistance,
- The daily life in the clandestineness,
- The long walk towards the freedom of conscience until the Revolution.
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It also wants to be a testimony of Protestant allegiance.
Through its fifteen rooms, the museum of the Desert presents :
- a cévenol piece of furniture and familiar objects dating from the eighteenth century,
- The reconstruction of an evening in Cévennes, weapons and cards of the war of Cevennes
- The hiding places of the hunted people and of the forbidden books,
- The posters of the royal power, of the pulpits, of the cups of the Holy Last Supper,
- Weddings and births certificates in the Desert,
- Remarkable Bibles and psalms books,
- An important collection of engravings and pictures (the Protestant painters of the Protestant history).
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