Frédéric Chopin Museum Warsaw

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Ostrogski Palace in Warsaw, the seat of the Frédéric Chopin Museum.
Ostrogski Palace
Chopin's last piano: Pleyel grand piano No. 14810.

The Frédéric Chopin Museum in Warsaw ( Polish: Muzeum Fryderyka Chopina w Warszawie ) is a personal museum founded in 1955 and located in the Ostrogski Palace ( Zamek Ostrogskich w Warszawie ). It is exclusively dedicated to the life and work of Frédéric Chopin.

The Ostrogski Palace was built in the second half of the 17th century according to the design of the architect Tylman van Gameren and is located at 41 Tamka Street in the Powiśle district.

The museum has been managed by the National Frédéric Chopin Institute ( Narodowy Institut Fryderyka Chopina , seat: Centrum Chopinowskie, ul. Tamka 43, Warsaw) since 2005 . The museum also has branches in Chopin's birthplace in Żelazowa Wola near Sochaczew and the Chopin family salon in the Czapski Palace on Krakowskie Przedmieście Street.

The museum's collections consist of around 7000 objects, including a. Manuscripts, letters, photographs, jewels and graphics. Part of the collection was in 1999 in the list of UNESCO - World Heritage documents entered. The exhibition in the Ostrogski Palace shows only a part of these exhibits. On March 1, 2010, a newly designed multimedia exhibition was opened, designed by the Italian company Migliore + Servetto.

The exhibition rooms are on five levels, marked from –2 to +2. The visitors can determine the order of the tour themselves.

  • The rooms for temporary exhibitions and a listening room are on level “–2”.
  • On level “-1” there is the cast of the pianist's left hand and the piano from the Parisian company Sebastian Erard (No. 26 606) from 1856, which once belonged to Franz Liszt . Young pianists and students from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music perform here every Thursday .
  • The “0” level is dedicated to the youth in Żelazowa Wola and Chopin's stay in Warsaw.
  • The "+1" level is dedicated to the Paris period. Here is the Pleyel grand piano (No. 14 810) from the last years of the composer's life. In the “Frauensaal” are the memories of the women who played an important role in Chopin's life, his mother and sister as well as Maria Kalergis , Pauline Viardot , Jane Stirling and George Sand . The last room illustrates Chopin's summer stays with George Sand in the village of Nohant-Vic from 1839 to 1846.
  • The "+2" level is dedicated to the last years of Chopin's life. There is his death mask as well as copies of the articles by Jane Stirling from the English press that appeared after the composer's death.

literature

  • Dorota Folga-Januszewska: Muzea Warszawy. Travel guide: Olszanica: Wydawnictwo BOSZ, 2012, p. 28. ISBN 978-83-7576-159-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/memory-of-the-world/register/full-list-of-registered-heritage/registered-heritage -page-8 / the-masterpieces-of-fryderyk-chopin / # c187221
  2. ↑ http://chopin.museum/pl/new/exposition/id/213

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 11.1 ″  N , 21 ° 1 ′ 22.2 ″  E