The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum ( pl, Muzeum Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie) is a museum in

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, devoted to the life and work of Polish double Nobel laureate Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867–1934), who discovered the

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polonium Polonium is a chemical element with the symbol Po and atomic number 84. Polonium is a chalcogen. A rare and highly radioactive metal with no stable isotopes, polonium is chemically similar to selenium and tellurium, though its metallic character ...

and

radium Radium is a chemical element with the symbol Ra and atomic number 88. It is the sixth element in group 2 of the periodic table, also known as the alkaline earth metals. Pure radium is silvery-white, but it readily reacts with nitrogen (rathe ...

. The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum is a cultural institution of the city of Warsaw, co-organized with the

Polish Chemical Society The Polish Chemical Society ( pl, Polskie Towarzystwo Chemiczne, PTCHEM) is a professional scientific society of Polish chemists. History The society was founded of 118 Charter Members on 29 June 1919 on the initiative of Leon Marchlewski, Sta ...

. It carries on educational and cultural programs related to Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her family. Małgorzata Sobieszczak-Marciniak, ''Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum'', p. 6. The Museum stands at 16 Freta Street (''ulica Freta 16'') in Warsaw's " New Town" district (dating from the 15th century), and is housed in the 18th-century tenement house in which Maria Skłodowska was born.

History

The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum was established by the Polish Chemical Society in 1967, on the centenary of the birth of physicist-chemist Maria Skłodowska-Curie. Participants in the museum's inauguration included her younger daughter and biographer, Eve Curie Labouisse; Eve's husband, the American politician and diplomat Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr.; and nine Nobel Prize winners. The museum is housed in an 18th-century apartment building (the Łyszkiewicz apartment building) at Freta Street ( pl, ulica Freta) 16 in Warsaw's " New Town". The building has been rebuilt several times. After Maria Skłodowska-Curie's death in 1934, a plaque was attached to the building, commemorating her birth there and her epochal scientific discoveries. During the 1944

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the building was deliberately demolished by the German forces, but the plaque survived and was put back after the building was rebuilt following

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The museum is biographical in character, with permanent exhibits and periodic special exhibits. The holdings include photographs, letters, documents, the scientist's personal effects, comments by Maria and her husband

Pierre Curie Pierre Curie ( , ; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. In 1903, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, and Henri Becq ...

and others about her and her work and discoveries, and films in Polish, English and French about her and about physics and chemistry. Prominently illustrated are Skłodowska-Curie's work in

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and her involvement in scientific organizations and in the founding of the Paris and Warsaw Radium Institutes. The museum endeavors to stimulate and support the interest of scholars, students and the general public in the life and achievements of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, and closed on Mondays and Polish national holidays. Information may be obtained by email at ''muzeum.msc@neostrada.pl''.

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* Małgorzata Sobieszczak-Marciniak, ''Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum'', Warsaw, Polish Chemical Society. * ''140 rocznica urodzin Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie; 75-lecie powstania Instytutu Radowego w Warszawie; 40-lecie Muzeum Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie w Warszawie: Materiały z konferencji, 15-16 października 2007, Pałac Staszica'' (140th Anniversary of the Birth of Maria Skłodowska-Curie; 75th Anniversary of the Warsaw Radium Institute; 40th Anniversary of the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum in Warsaw: Materials of Conference, Staszic Palace, 15–16 October 2007).

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