Maison & Laboratoire de Louis Pasteur

House open every day, including public holidays, from 22 February 2025 to 2 November 2025
February (22 to 28), March, April, October and November (1 to 2): open from 2pm to 6pm
May to September: 9.30am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 6pm

Guided tours every day in May, June and September at 9.45am - 10.45am - 11.45am - 2.30pm - 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Guided tours every day in July and August at 9.45am - 10.45am - 11.45am - 2pm - 3pm - 4pm - 5pm
Booking recommended

Self-guided tours with booklets

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), the inventor of the rabies vaccine, returned to Arbois throughout his life. His house has been preserved intact. From the billiard room to the laboratory, you can enter the scientist's private world. The garden. The house, recognised as a Maison des Illustres in 2013, is part of the Jura Museums network.

Louis Pasteur's house in Arbois is an absolutely unique heritage site, still inhabited by the presence of the scientist. Preserved as it was when Louis Pasteur lived in it, the house immerses visitors 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.

The site is not accessible to people with reduced mobility.

The house, recognised as a Maison des Illustres in 2013, is part of the Jura Museums network.