Super museum, recently renovated - really worth seeing !!! Unfortunately I didn't have enough time to see the exhibition inside, so I don't judge, for the garden and house alone it's worth spending timetime... You can have a nice time, sit on a bench while Chopin's music comes out of the speakers!
11.05.2011It is imperative to see it. It is imperative to manifest Polishness in this museum, because so far this place is visited mainly by Japanese people. I felt as if I were on the territory ofnot their embassy. I was under the impression that I would go to Zelazowa Wola and see a manor house, a few souvenirs and an old lady at the cashier's office who would happily welcome one of the few tourists venturing into Zelazowa Wola. Nothing of the sort! The museum is modern, the park designed with taste. I was pleasantly surprised ;-)
10.09.2010The village of Żelazowa Wola is located in Sochaczew County, on the edge of the Kampinos Forest, 54 km from Warsaw. It is the Composer's most famous place of worship, licially visited by tourists and music lovers from both home and abroad. The Fryderyk Chopin Birthplace House and the surrounding park in Żelazowa Wola are owned by the Fryderyk Chopin National Institute. Chopin's home in Żelazowa Wola then recreated the atmosphere of a Polish manor house of the first decades of the 19th century. Among the items collected in the manor are a Warsaw piano made by the Leszczynski company in the first half of the 19th century, an upright clavichord called "giraffe" made by Fried, Külbors of Wroclaw in the 19th century, in addition to 19th century Biedermeier-style furniture and portraits of Fryderyk Chopin and his family. In the music lounge stands a contemporary piano, played by pianists during Chopin concerts, held in the summer season. There are four monuments to Frederic Chopin in a landscape park rich in original plant species, with the Utrata River flowing through it. The first is an obelisk from 1894, featuring a medallion with a bust of Chopin and an inscription: F. Chopin 22. II. 1810, below it a lyre surrounded by leaves. The monument was designed by Bronislaw Zochowski, and the image of the composer, according to a medallion by J. F. A. Bovy, was made by Jan Wojdyga.
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