Musée du Service des Objets Trouvés, Lost and found museum in 15th arrondissement, France.

The Musée du Service des Objets Trouvés is a small collection of unclaimed lost items kept by the Paris Police lost and found service at 36, rue des Morillons in the 15th arrondissement. Its entrance, under a white "PRÉFECTURE DE POLICE — OBJETS TROUVÉS" sign between brick pillars, is closed by a grey metal roller shutter covered with graffiti and small white notices. The museum itself is not generally open to the public.

The Musée du Service des Objets Trouvés is the small collection kept by the Paris Police lost-and-found service at 36, rue des Morillons. In 2011 alone, 186,000 found objects were delivered to the service for recovery, roughly a thousand items a day from Paris, its suburbs and airports. The museum grew out of this repository as a selection of items never claimed by their owners.

The museum keeps unclaimed finds that trace daily life in Paris: identity documents, keys and glasses are the three most frequently handed in. A lobster found at Paris-Orly Airport, a funerary urn left in the metro station near Père Lachaise Cemetery, a wooden leg and wedding dresses sit among the objects. Orhan Pamuk mentions the museum in chapter 81 of The Museum of Innocence.

The museum sits inside the lost-and-found repository at 36, rue des Morillons, 15th arrondissement, and is not generally open to the public, so visits cannot be planned. The repository itself receives items found in Paris and its suburbs and airports. The entrance on the street is the shuttered opening under the "PRÉFECTURE DE POLICE — OBJETS TROUVÉS" sign, watched by a camera on the left brick pillar.

Among the collections are unexpected items like a lobster from Orly Airport and several funeral urns. These curious finds show just how varied the things people lose in the city can be.