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10 UNCOMMON MUSEUMS AROUND THE WORLD

"10 Uncommon Museums That You Can Ask Yourselves: "Do Such Museums Really Exist?" 1. Musée des Égouts de Paris (Paris Sewer Museum) “Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of sewers; which has its streets, its crossroads, its squares, its blind-alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus the human form.” (Victor Hugo, Leviathan's Intestine, book II) The Paris Sewer Museum involve the history of the sewers from their initial development by Hugues Aubriot (Aubriot was a capable administrator who built the first sewers in Paris, and strengthened the City's fortifications) provost of Paris in the late 14th century, to their modern structure, which was designed in the 19th century by the engineer Eugène Belgrand (Belgrand's projects remain one of the most extensive urban sewer systems in the world and served as a transitional phase leading to modern wastewater processing.) The museum also details the role of sewer workers and method...