Ostrogski Palace in Warsaw
The Frederic Chopin Museum was declared open in Warsaw, Monday, on the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
The opening ceremony was attended by among others President Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria, Metropolitan of Warsaw Archbishop Kazimierz Nycz, the apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Jozef Kowalczyk, the President of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz.
President Lech Kaczyński said that the Chopin Museum is just as necessary to Poland as the Warsaw Uprising Museum in reclaiming Polish history.
"These museums are very necessary to Poland - to Polish history. (...) the Fryderyk Chopin Museum is part of a policy that not everyone likes, historical politics. But we have to show the world our identity, that it is not only a history of struggle(.. .) but also the history of Polish culture.”
The museum is housed at Ostrogski Castle on ulica Tamka, with space for exhibits and a new concert hall. Exhibitions will showcase the life and work of the artist assisted by multimedia exhibition halls, with each visitor able to pass through successive stages of the life of Frederic Chopin. (pg)
Related site: The Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw