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2025 – 50 years of the Sewer museum.

The sewer museum takes you on a trip to celebrate its 50th anniversary ! To celebrate this anniversary, the museum invites you to embark on an exceptional sewer trip. Throughout the year 2025, an unprecedented program will allow you to discover the fascinating history of the Parisian sewage system while exploring the sewers from a new, playful and creative angle.

Come and discover the museum in an original way through a series of appointments :

March 27, 2025 : night carbid lamp in partnership with the association SEHDACS. Explore the sewers in the light of ancient sewer lamps with experts who will accompany you on your visit.

April 25 to 27, 2025 : 360° tour in the bowels of Paris. Explore the sewers through an incredible virtual tour.

June 7, 2025 : Nuit blanche at the Sewer Museum with the collective Candela and the musician Tumulus. A sensory and immersive experience to reveal the invisible and illustrate the human impact on underground flows.

July 4, 2025 : exhibition on the clothes of sewer workers and their evolution over time.

From 17 to 20 july 2025 : new virtual tours in the sewers.

The program begins on March 27, 2025 with a night tour in the light of an old sewer lamp : the so-called carbide lamp used by sewer workers at the beginning of the 20th century.

From 7 pm, come and discover the history of this lamp, an emblematic object of underground Paris, during a demonstration animated by experts then embark on a unique guided tour, to discover the sewers of Paris as in the last century.

• Departures every 30 minutes
• Travel time : 1h
• Price : museum entrance + 5 € or sewer passport.
• See conditions and prices on the museum website: https://billetterie-egouts.paris.fr/fr-FR/accueil

Attention, limited tickets

Bathing in the Seine, a long story ! Exceptional extension of the exhibition !

You have until February 28, 2025 to see this exciting exhibition tracing the history of bathing in Paris.

How did people bathe in the Seine ? Why did bathing gradually disappear ? What is the link between sanitation, water quality and bathing ? The exhibition Bathing in the Seine, provides answers to all these questions, looking back over three centuries of bathing and questions surrounding the river, through key themes : regulations governing the right to bathe, social practices observed since the 17th century, and finally, the actions taken by public authorities to make the dream of plunging back into the Seine a reality. With a nod to Paris, capital of fashion, the exhibition also presents the bathing outfits imagined over times and practices.

On view until Friday February 28, 2025 during museum opening hours. Included in the Sewers museum entrance.

The Sewers Museum takes part in European Night of Museums ! Sewers workers from the Alma site will show you the bowels of Paris and answer your questions !

Saturday, May 18, 5 pm to 11 pm (last entry at 10 pm).

Free admission without reservation. Sewers workers-guides will be on standby in the galleries to interact with visitors.