Paris Sewer Museum

The Paris Sewer Museum (French: Musée des Égouts de Paris), is a museum located in the sewers at the esplanade Habib-Bourguiba [fr], near the pont de l'Alma, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France.

Since October 2021, the museum has been accessible every day except Monday.

Tours were available twice monthly, and visitors were transported through the sewers on boats and wagons.

[1] The museum details the history of the sewers from their initial development by Hugues Aubriot, provost of Paris in the late 14th century, to their modern structure, which was designed in the 19th century by the engineer Eugène Belgrand.

[2] The museum also details the role of sewer workers and methods of water treatment.

Sewer worker mannequin in the museum tunnel