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Museums with Educational Purposes
Louis Pasteur’s House
Owned by the Académie des Sciences since 1991, the house of Louis
Pasteur (1822-1895) in Arbois, which received the label Maisons
des illustres [Houses of the Illustrious] from the Ministry of Culture
and Communications in 2011, is open for visits all year long and
hosts events, particularly intended for school audiences. In 2013, the
Académie des Sciences created, with the Conseil général du Jura
[Departmental Council of Jura] and the communes of Arbois and Dole,
the Établissement public de coopération culturelle [Public Institution
for Cultural Cooperation, EPCC] Terre de Louis Pasteur. Pasteur’s
house in Arbois, which is a central part of it, has been at the disposal
of this EPCC since 2014.
As for the Académie des Sciences, it refocused its educational scope
on Louis Pasteur’s historic vineyard, le Clos de Rosières, located near
Arbois. On 8 April 2015, in association with the wine producer Henri
Maire, who has been making wine from these vines for more than 70
years , the Académie held a charity wine auction with bottles from the
Clos. The raised funds were donated to the research programme36 on
vine wood diseases, especially the esca, which affect almost 13% of
the French vineyard.
Louis Pasteur “Memory of the World”
Because of the importance of Louis Pasteur’s bequest for science and medicine, the Académie des Sciences and Bibliothèque Nationale de
France (BnF) filed an application for the inscription of his archives in the Memory of the World Programme created in 1992 by UNESCO. In
October 2015, success was there: Louis Pasteur’s archives were officially inscribed among the documentary heritage of Memory of the World.
The archives held by the Académie des Sciences have been digitized and are entirely accessible on the website of the Académie37.
Abbadia Castle Observatory
Antoine d’Abbadie (1810-1897) was an explorer, geographer, linguist and
astronomer. His castle was built by Viollet-le-Duc up above Hendaye, in the
Department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, between 1864 and 1884. It was then
bequeathed by its owner to the Académie des Sciences, of which he was a
member, and now hosts an astronomical observatory, which has remained
operational until 1976. A listed historic monument, the castle has been the
object of a vast restoration programme from 1997 to 2008. Benefitting
from the label Maisons des illustres since 2011, it is now managed by the
Hendaye Tourist Information Centre, according to the terms of a service
concession arrangement.
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