Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum

The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Museum occupies the original birthplace of the Polish-French physicist and chemist Marie Curie at Ulica Freta 16 in the New Town of Warsaw. Born in 1867 as Maria Sklodowska, Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and together with her husband Pierre discovered the elements polonium and radium. The museum fills several small rooms of the plain townhouse with family photographs, replica laboratory equipment, letters and personal effects, plus a collection of books from her Paris laboratory. A visit takes about an hour and pairs well with a walk through the rebuilt New Town and its narrow streets around the market church.