Musée Curie

An exhibit in the Musée Curie

The Musée Curie (Curie Museum) is a historical museum focusing on radiological research. It is located in the 5th arrondissement at 11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, and open weekday afternoons; admission is free. The museum was closed for renovation but was reopened in the second half of 2011.

The museum was established in 1934, after Curie's death, on the ground floor of the Curie Pavilion of the Institut du Radium. It was formerly Marie Curie's laboratory, built 1911-1914, and where she performed research from 1914-1934. In this laboratory her daughter and son-in-law Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie discovered artificial radioactivity, for which they received the 1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

The museum contains a permanent historical exhibition on radioactivity and its applications, notably in medicine, focusing primarily on the Curies, and displays some of the most important research apparatus used before 1940. It also contains a center for historical resource which holds archives, photographs, and documentation on the Curies, Joliot-Curies, the Institut Curie, and the history of radioactivity and oncology.

See also

• List of museums in Paris

References

• Curie Museum
• Reids Guides entry
• Museums in Paris entry
• Le musée Curie (French)

Coordinates: 48°50′39″N 2°20′37″E / 48.84417°N 2.34361°E / 48.84417; 2.34361