The Musée Pasteur (, ) is a museum dedicated to French scientist

Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, Fermentation, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the la ...

. It is located within the Institut Pasteur at 25 Rue du Docteur Roux,

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, in the 15th arrondissement, and is open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The museum was established in 1935, in honor of

, and preserves his memory in the apartment where he spent the last seven years of his life, it also has an impressive room where some 1,000 scientific instruments are exhibited. The museum houses the Neo-Byzantine chapel in which he is buried. The building was classified as a historical monument in 1981.

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* Stephen Fallon, ''Paris'', Lonely Planet, 2004, page 109. . Musee pasteur Museums in Paris Buildings and structures in the 15th arrondissement of Paris Tourist attractions in Paris Pasteur Science museums in France History of science museums {{France-museum-stub

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