Come discover the superb treasures of receive(hold) the beautiful Augustus Grasset de Varzy museum. Augustus Grasset settles down in Varzy in 1862 and creates his cabinet(office) of curiosity in the course of his journeys and of his discoveries. The museum gets organised in different themes: earthenwares, paintings(boards), musical instruments, treasures of old(former) Egypt and of South Pacific …
Presentation(Display) of exhibition(exposure): "Of the Sacred - Heart in Bitouna, history(story) of a forgotten monument": "On May 20th, 1908, a huge crowd climbs the Mount Châtelet behind François-Léon Gauthey, 109th bishop of Nevers, who is going to dedicate the big(great) statue of the Christ to the Sacred - Heart established there in the instigation. Passions arisen from the law of 1905 on the separation of the Church and of the State are more lively than ever, and these two and a half tons of cast iron of iron are as a corner(place) pushed in a Top - turbulent, republican and anticlerical renowned Nivernais. The students of the Ecole Normale Supérieure(teacher's training college) of Varzy, irreverent, will early have made to call him(it) "Bitouna": small salient thing, without interest nor consequence...
This history(story) is going to come alive again through the exhibition(exposure), which will show a work in detail undeniable plastic qualities, and allow to approach in closer this grave effigy of the Christ. Birth and development of the worship(cult) of the Sacred will be also evoked - Heart, which takes off further to the humiliation of the defeat of 1870 and to dramatic tearings of the Commune de Paris, as well as the imaging arisen from this popular devotion".