La Correrie et le musée de la Grande Chartreuse

Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse

From Bruno onwards, the Chartreuse was divided into two houses: above, the fathers in their cells; below, the correrie, where the lay brothers lived, with the workshops, the stables and everything that makes the noise of work, kept at a distance from the silence. The Correrie of the Grande Chartreuse is that place, two kilometres below the monastery; its buildings date from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The road is closed to cars at this point and, in 1957, a museum was opened there to show visitors what they would not see higher up. One walks through a reconstructed cell, the small two-storey house with its workshop and its garden where the Carthusian spends his days, the cloister and the chapel, and learns about a monk's day, the night office and the silence. The most singular piece is the collection of charterhouse maps: seventy-nine paintings, mostly painted in the 17th century at the request of Dom Innocent Le Masson, the prior who rebuilt the monastery after the fire of 1676, and which depict, seen from the sky, the charterhouses of Europe. The museum holds the 'musée de France' label; it was refurbished from 2009 to 2012.

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Getting there : 670 route du Désert, Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse; car park at the museum, beyond which the road is closed to cars. Open from 28 March to 11 November 2026: in the afternoon, except Thursdays, in spring and autumn; morning and afternoon from mid-June to mid-September, afternoon only on Sundays; closed from mid-November to the end of March (to be checked). Admission charge, reduced rate for children and families (to be checked). The monastery itself cannot be visited: it is possible to walk up, by the path, as far as its surroundings.

Opening times and access details are given as a guide only: check before you set out.

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