Nowadays, the Chartreuse is off limits to visitors, and visiting motor vehicles are prohibited on the surrounding roads. However, about two kilometers away stands a museum of the Carthusian order and the lives of its monks and nuns. The order is supported by the sales of Chartreuse liqueur. It was closed in 1903 by the French state, the monks found refuge in Italy until 1929, but returned in 1940. A documentary about the monastery, Into Great Silence, was made in 2004, to great acclaim in the film festival circuit.