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His work

Clairac museum

Claude Martin created the Musée historique du Clairacais in the Maison de Japhet. [A]

Two dates for one creation

“In 1966, establishment of the Musée historique du Clairacais”

Exhibition panel [A]

“taken over in the 1970s by Claude Martin, who created a fascinating museum of the Reformation in Clairac there”

Société des amis de Clairac, Newsletter no. 1, May 2018 [B]

1966 according to the exhibition panel; 1970s according to the Société des amis de Clairac — to be verified.

The Maison de Japhet

The letter from the Société des amis de Clairac presents the Maison de Japhet as a 16th-century house given to the town hall; the painter Maurousel had created a “museum” there in the mid-20th century. [B]

A well-visited museum, then closed

According to the Société des amis de Clairac, Claude Martin deposited there part of his collections and documents entrusted to him by people from Clairac. The museum was well visited for more than ten years, notably by descendants of emigrants who came to the gathering of September 1978; repeated thefts led him to close it. The house, still owned by the town, is awaiting restoration and a new use. [W7]

The museum in the history of Clairac

To be completed

The museum in pictures

Research in progress — contribute. Its collections, its rooms, its visitors: what the site’s documents do not say remains to be documented. Did you visit the museum, or do you own a photograph, a catalogue, an article?

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Photograph of the museum to be supplied

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