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A rich and varied programme awaits you at the Abbey Church of Payerne in 2024!

The Abbatiale de Payerne closes its 2023 season on a high note with the O’Chap show “Le collier perdu de l’impératrice” (The Empress’s Lost Necklace), and the return of the lantern walks.

This summer, from 3 July to 13 August, the Association du site de l’Abbatiale de Payerne (ASAP) is presenting the “Butterfly Chapel”, as well as its second edition of the “Monks’ Garden”.

The Site of the Abbey of Payerne was awarded a special distinction by the Jury at the Awards Ceremony of the annual meeting of the European Museum Forum at the Museu Història in Barcelona (3-6 May 2023).

From 31 March to 21 May 2023: exhibition “A look at the collections: The Abbey church as seen by artists”. As the emblematic silhouette of

As part of the project to have European Cluniac sites – of which the Abbey Church of Payerne is one – listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Abbey Church team is committed to raising awareness in 2023 of the strengths of the application and to raising the profile of the Payerne site.

The Abbey of Payerne is one of 33 European museums nominated for the European Museum Prize 2023, which will be awarded in early May 2023 at the Museu Historia in Barcelona by the European Museum Forum (EMF).

Thank you to the 211 people who voted for one of the 19 models created by visitors to the Abbey Church. Find out the results here.

Use your imagination and develop your creativity by taking part in our whimsical model competition!

On 4 September, the Abbey Church celebrates 1 year since it was reopened after restoration. To mark the occasion, you are all cordially invited to an open day (free admission to the Abbey).

On 20 May 2021, we opened the 19th-century tomb in the parish church. Today, thanks to archaeological and anthropological studies and carbon-14 analyses, we have been able to determine the type of individual to whom the bones found in the sarcophagus belonged.

In 1818, bones identified as those of Queen Berthe, which had been found in the Abbey church, were moved to a tomb in the Gachet chapel of the parish church. The marble slab that closes the tomb recounts the queen’s legendary past.

The restoration of a great building like the Abbey Church is never finished. That’s why, thanks to a generous donation from the Association pour la Restauration de l’Abbatiale, we are restoring the niche in the south wall of the choir.

From 10.00 am on 11 July 2020, the new visitor tour in the Abbey Church will be open to the public.