Shortly before the war, Michel, Auguste and Marie-Thérèse Jouve (1852-1938) founded the museums of Cavaillon. The Jouves were the heirs of a family that had acquired its wealth through the trade of silkworm grains and descendants of the revolutionary wildman Jourdan Coupe-Têtes. They became local VIP's at the close of the 19th century. Enamored with their city, sensitive to its natural, monumental, and everyday heritage, they conceived, organized and archived a general report in which the story of their own lives interpenetrates with that of a whole region. Without any descendants to carry on the family name, they dedicated their lives and fortune to the creation of a vast cultural, social, and political project. The Jouve's relation to heritage and history was far ahead of its time and remains ours to this very day, granting their propositions a visionary scope. In parallel to the museographical collections inventory, four pre-inventories co-financed by the Ville de Cavaillon were conducted on the site by the DRAC PACA on our initiative. In the 19th century, the home was converted into a rental apartment building and then into the industrial and commercial headquarters for silkworm breeding, it wasn't until 1855 that the house became a domestic space once more. In addition, its interior was entirely refurbished during the 1880's and 1890's. It now stands alone as the privileged expression of the Jouves' notability, and their significant cultural and patrimonial endeavor.