Description of the attraction
The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Museum is a museum located in Warsaw dedicated to the life and work of the two-time Nobel Prize winner Maria Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934). This is the only biographical museum in Poland dedicated to the discoverer of polonium and radium.
The museum is housed in an 18th century bourgeois house where Maria Skłodowska-Curie was born in 1867, and which is now also home to the General Directorate of the Polish Chemical Society.
The museum was created in 1967 on the centenary of the birth of the physicist and mathematician through the efforts of Maria's youngest daughter, Eva Curie, her husband, American politician and diplomat Henry Richardson, as well as 9 Nobel Prize winners.
The exhibition presents mainly personal belongings of Maria, her father Vladislav Sklodowski, and her husband, Pierre Curie. Here you can see photographs, stamps, medals, personal documents, a copy of chemical equipment, a collection of minerals, a collection of films in Polish, English and French on physics and chemistry.
In addition to the permanent exhibition, the museum hosts thematic meetings and exhibitions, which strive to maintain the interest of scientists, as well as the general public, in the achievements of Maria Sklodowska-Curie.
