Museum of Maria Sklodowskiej-Curie (Muzeum Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie) description and photos - Poland: Warsaw (Topic)

Muzeum Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie, description and photo - Poland: Warsaw. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Muzeum Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie.

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The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Museum is a museum located in Warsaw dedicated to the life and work of the two-time Nobel Prize laureate Maria Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934). It is the only biographical museum in Poland dedicated to the discoverer of polonium and radium.

The museum is located in the bourgeois house of the 18th century, where Maria Sklodowska-Curie was born in 1867, and which is now also home to the Polish Headquarters Chemical Society.

The museum was created in 1967 on the centenary of the birth of the physicist-mathematician through the efforts of Mary's youngest daughter, Eva Curie, her husband, American politician and diplomat Henry Richardson, and 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, here strive to maintain the interest of scientists and the general public in the achievements of Maria Sklodowska-Curie.

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