Musée Pasteur

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  • Address
    Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, 15e
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  • Phone
    01 45 68 82 83
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  • Transport
    underground rail: Pasteur

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Housed in the apartment where the famous chemist and bacteriologist spent the last seven years of his life (1888-95), a tour of this museum takes you through Pasteur's private rooms, a hall with such odds and ends as gifts presented to him by heads of state and drawings he did as a young man.

After Pasteur's death, the French government wanted to entomb his remains in the Panthéon, but his family, acting in accordance with his wishes, obtained permission to have him buried at his institute. The great savant lies in the basement crypt.