"In troubled waters" is the mysterious title of the new exhibition of the Maison de l'Absinthe, inaugurated on October 22, 2022. The drink is disturbed, Hearts warm up and languages ​​are delighted. The Môtisan museum has conducted the investigation to harvest confessions and invites you to discover more than twenty testimonies of a valley so long clandestine.


Unpublished testimonies, wacky, prickle, touching and even a bit controversy, are projected for the pleasure of lovers of absinthe. In an intimate setting, immersive, You can listen to the sometimes whispered stories of the witnesses interviewed. The choice to make audiovisual content is part of one of the fundamental goals of the Maison de l'Absinthe; to know, Ensure the safeguarding of the intangible heritage of spirits. So many knowledge that tends to disappear with those who secretly hold them.


Anne Bisang (Director of the Popular Romand Theater), Benjamin Locatelli (artist), Jean-Pierre Jelmini (historian and former director of the Museum of Art and History of Neuchâtel), Jean-Pierre Juriens (gendarme in Môtiers in the 1950s), Françoise Bovet (distilling) and many other witnesses of the green fairy, granted their confidence to the Absinthe house by narrating their most beautiful anecdotes on regional spirits.


"In troubled waters" is an accessible exhibition for people with reduced mobility. It is aimed at young and old. The testimonies are in French, subtitled in German and English.