Guided tour of the House of Louis Pasteur

As part of the European Heritage Days, enjoy a 45-minute guided tour of Louis Pasteur's home and laboratory.

Louis Pasteur's house in Arbois is an absolutely unique heritage site, still inhabited by the presence of the scientist. The house has been preserved as Louis Pasteur knew it, and visitors are immersed in the life and work of the scientist.

Listed as a Historic Monument, Louis Pasteur's house in Arbois was awarded the "Maisons des Illustres" label by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication in 2011, at the same time as the house in which he was born in Dole.

Pasteur lived in this house in Arbois all his life, and it was the only one he ever owned. Little remains of his father's modest tannery, where he spent his childhood, because Louis Pasteur transformed this house into his "Château de la Cuisance", and furnished it to his taste. In this house, to which he returned every year, Pasteur combined business with pleasure: surrounded by his family and friends in the living room or dining room, he could devote himself to his research in his private laboratory. It was in Arbois that he carried out his work on fermentation and it was there that he perfected the famous pasteurisation process. Thanks to experiments carried out in his vineyard at Montigny-les-Arsures, he was able to definitively challenge the belief in the spontaneous generation of micro-organisms.

From the billiard table to the bedroom, meet the scientist in the intimacy of this incredibly well-preserved house. Discover his personal laboratory, preserved intact and still inhabited by the soul of its illustrious owner and the effervescence of his Jura experiments.