New Chopin museum opens in Warsaw, composer’s home city, on his 200th birthday

New museum on life of Chopin opens in Warsaw

WARSAW, Poland — A new museum on the life of Frederic Chopin has opened on the composer’s 200th birthday in his native Poland.

The interactive, multimedia museum is located in the center of Warsaw, where Chopin moved in infancy from a nearby country estate, and where he spent the first 20 years of his life before moving to Paris.

The museum includes 11 spaces devoted to different aspects of his life. Its creators said as they presented it Monday that they hope to evoke an emotional response from visitors.

A room devoted to Paris salon life features Chopin’s last piano, built by the prominent piano maker Ignace Pleyel.

The final room is devoted to his death and includes a lock of his brown hair and his a plaster death mask taken of his face.