Pasteur Museum

Pasteur Museum and its collection

The Musée Pasteur (Pasteur Museum) is a museum in Paris that is dedicated to Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), who was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. The museum is located in the Pasteur Institute. The Pasteur Museum preserves the apartment where Pasteur spent the last seven years of his life, as well as a space where around 1000 scientific instruments are exhibited and a Neo-Byzantine chapel where Pasteur is buried.