Curie Museum

The Curie Museum is located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, on a street named after Pierre and Marie Curie. It is located on the first floor in the building of the Radium Institute, on the site of the laboratory of Marie Curie. The museum opened in 1934 after her death. Maria Skłodowska-Curie was born in 1867 in Poland. She was the first woman allowed to teach at the Sorbonne. In 1895, Marie married Pierre Curie, who was the head of the laboratory at the Municipal School of Industrial Physics. They begin to work together on research of uranium salts and the phenomenon of radioactivity. Years of work in the barn, all trials ended in success. Together with Henri Becquerel in 1903, the Curies were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

After the death of Pierre Curie (1906), Maria Skłodowska-Curie took his position at the Department of the University of Paris and continued his research. In 1911 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for the second time. In the same laboratory worked her daughter with her husband, Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie, who also received the Nobel Prize in 1935 in chemistry.

Currently, the Curie Museum houses a permanent exhibition dedicated to the work of Curie, research instruments that were used until 1940, as well as personal belongings of scientists. Radioactivity and its application became an important discovery for world science, especially in medicine.