Fryderyk Chopin's Birth House - Żelazowa Wola

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Address: Żelazowa Wola 15 , 96-503 Sochaczew

The Biographical Museum in Żelazowa Wola, near Sochaczew, which is a branch of the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw, which includes a manor house and a landscape park on the Utrata River. The manor house was built around 1800. Inhabited by the Chopin family after 1806. It is a small brick building, with a high and steep roof, with large windows. There were seven rooms inside. It also has a porch supported by two columns. The permanent exhibition of the museum includes the whole arrangement of the nineteenth-century interior, reflecting the atmosphere of those times and the biographical exhibition of Fryderyk Chopin. The exhibits were collected in six rooms. These are furniture, paintings with images of family members, documents and musical instruments. A contemporary piano has been placed in the living room, which is used for concert purposes. Near the manor house there is a landscape park from the 18th century. There is a monument of Fryderyk Chopin by Józef Gosławski. Since 1959, the museum has been eagerly visited by visitors and artists from the country and the world, as well as winners of the International Piano Competitions named after Fryderyk Chopin, who give concerts here. Every Sunday from May to September you can listen to Chopin live music.

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