Musée des Égouts de Paris

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  • Address
    place de la Résistance, 7e
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  • Phone
    53 68 27 81
  • Transport
    underground rail: Alma-Marceau

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Lonely Planet review

A city cannot grow, prosper and become truly great unless some way is found to deal with its odiferous output of human waste. Along the Seine, east of the Eiffel Tower, Paris has a unique working museum devoted to such an answer: sewerage. It'll take your breath away, literally.

The entrance to the Paris Sewers Museum is a rectangular maintenance hole topped with a kiosk that leads into 480m (1575ft) of raw sewerage tunnels, complete with all sorts of vaguely familiar objects flowing beneath your feet as you pass artefacts illustrating the development of Paris' waste-water disposal system. The sewers keep regular hours except - God forbid - when rain threatens to flood the tunnels.