Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum

This guide to the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum in Warsaw follows the tenement on Freta Street where she was born in 1867, its deliberate destruction by German forces during the 1944 Uprising, and the small plaque that survived the blast. It traces her path from a Warsaw barred to women at university to a career in Paris, and the 1950s reconstruction that rebuilt the house around that recovered plaque. Look for the family photographs and girlhood poetry notebooks displayed inside the rebuilt rooms.