The Louis Pasteur's native house
With regard to its size, Dole is a small town, but in terms of culture, it has a massive heritage. With direct flights at the beginning of Bastia in the summer, Air Corsica offers you a journey full of hapiness and surprises.
Situated by the « canal des tanneurs », the Louis Pasteur birth house in Dole is the starting point of the brilliant destiny of the most famous of the french scientists. Through a path designed to be as playful as educational and attractive, this house recounts all his scientific work by exploring, one after another, the fields of knowledge that Pasteur highlighted.
Mostly known for its discovery on the rabies vaccine, the Louis Pasteur scientific work also touched upon many other field of activity such as the study of crystals, the diseases of silk worms or the fermentation of beer and wine. Based on personal items and documents, the exhibition of the birth house shows how Louis Pasteur, as a native of Dole, became a figurehead of scientific research and a person known in the whole world.
As the first museum dedicated to Louis Pasteur in France, his birth house in Dole has a central role in the tourism attractiveness of the city. Pasteur himself came there at the end of his life to unveil a plaque on the front of the house in order to remind everyone the place where he was born. Today this house is much more than just a museum, it has become a place of scientific questioning in memory of Louis Pasteur, with a point of view that associates an artistic, social and also a symbolic approach.
During the school holidays, in connection with Pasteur workshop, the birth house of the researcher offers scientific entertainments, these events are great opportunities for the young and old alike to discover science in another way. You may also discover freely or during guided tour.
If you want to enhance your scientific knowledge or if you are curious by nature, take your flight with Air Corsica on the footsteps of Louis Pasteur by visiting his birth house thanks to its direct flight Bastia-Dole that only lasts 1h40.
