The one and only biographical museum in the world; this compound is dedicated to Maria Skłodowska-Curie, the discoverer of polonium and radium. It is located at 16 Freta Street, which is also the very same apartment building in which the Polish two-time Nobel laureate was born. This museum was established in 1967 by the Polish Chemical Society on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Maria Curie.

A plaque commemorating her scientific discoveries, which survived World War II, is still visible on the façade of the building. Inside the museum, you can get up close and personal with this Nobel laureate, through her personal artifacts such as photographs, letters and documents. See the intricate illustrations of Marie Curie’s work in the setting up of the Paris and Warsaw Radium Institutes and watch films about her research as well as her past, as you take time to commemorate the life of this outstanding female scientist.