Museum of Fryderyk Chopin in Warsaw

This guide to the Museum of Fryderyk Chopin in Warsaw opens with a Warsaw legend about the bronze duck fountain outside its entrance: a princess bewitched into a golden duck, sleeping in a locked cellar beneath the Baroque terrace, and a bargain offered to whoever wakes her. It follows a poor young shoemaker named Lutek, who slips into those cellars one Midsummer night to test the bargain's one strict rule, spending his new fortune around the city from a Wilanow carriage ride to a theatre box. Picture him still holding coins as evening falls and an old soldier stops him on the street to beg.