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The Musée Pasteur ( en, Pasteur Museum) is a museum dedicated to French scientist Louis Pasteur. It is located within the
Institut Pasteur The Pasteur Institute (french: Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who invented pasteurization and vaccines f ...
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 Louis Pasteur, 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.


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List of museums in Paris There are around 130 museums in Paris, France, within city limits. This list also includes suburban museums within the "Grand Paris" area, such as the Air and Space Museum. The sixteen museums of the City of Paris are annotated with "VP", as well ...
* List of things named after Louis Pasteur


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* Stephen Fallon, ''Paris'', Lonely Planet, 2004, page 109. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Pasteur, Musee Musee pasteur Museums in Paris Buildings and structures in the 15th arrondissement of Paris Tourist attractions in Paris
Pasteur Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named after ...
Science museums in France History of science museums