Musée Curie – Institut du Radium
Musée Curie – Institut du Radium
Musée Curie – Institut du Radium (1, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)(Metro Place Monge, RER Luxembourg) — the Curie Museum, a national authority on Marie Curie (1867-1934), pays homage to this great French physicist who discovered radioactivity and her entire family, two generations of which won the Nobel Prize. The laboratory that houses the museum today was specially built for Marie Curie between 1911 and 1914, by the Université de Paris and the Institut Pasteur so that she could continue her research.
There is now a tour based on four themes (The family with 5 Nobel Prizes, Radium: myth and reality, The Curie laboratory: from physics to chemistry and The Curie Foundation: curing cancer), supported by a range of multimedia. As you walk round, you can learn what happened to the members of the Curie family, see scientific instruments of the time and also Marie Curie’s laboratory and office, where time seems to have stood still. Outside, a little garden designed by Marie Curie herself hosts occasional exhibitions.
Admission: free. Open Wednesday to Saturday, from 1 PM to 5 PM.