Polish Library in Paris

The Polish Library in Paris (French: Bibliothèque Polonaise de Paris, Polish: Biblioteka Polska w Paryżu) is a Polish cultural centre of national importance and is closely associated both with the historic Great Emigration of the Polish élite to Paris in the 19th-century and the formation in 1832 of the Literary Society (Towarzystwo Literackie), later the Historical and Literary Society. The Library was founded in 1838 by Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz and Karol Sienkiewicz, among others. Its first task was to safeguard all surviving books, documents, archives and treasures of national significance. It has become a historical and documentary resource open for the use of Poles and other researchers and visitors. The Library houses three museums related to significant Polish artists: the Salon Frédéric Chopin, the Adam Mickiewicz Museum and the Bolesław Biegas Art collection. UNESCO's Memory of the World Register rates it as an institution unique of its kind.

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One of the most important collection of polish art and literature. With 3 museums and two exhibition rooms. It is a very interesting place to visit where you can often find concerts and many events.

Always a pleasure to visit this island of Polish history.

This is a very nice, surprisingly rich museum devoted to Adam Mickiewicz, Frederic Chopin and Bronislaw Biegas. Two rooms are devoted to Mickiewicz, one to Chopin and one to Biegas. The Biegas room is very impressive, full of very high quality artworks by this relatively unknown artist. The Chopin room contains a Pleyel piano, a chair from Chopin's last apartment at Place Vendome, and several small objects related to the composer, including a lock of his hair. The Mickiewicz rooms are very informative and contain copies of very important documents related to his life (such as his passports) and the life of Polish immigration in Paris, especially the Hotel Lambert party of Prince Czartoryski. Also, the rooms contain several paintings of Walenty Wankowicz and objects related to Maria Szymanowska, Celina Szymanowska, and Wladyslaw Mickiewicz. Entry is 5EU per person. Photography of individual objects is prohibited but general pictures can be taken. I was particularly impressed by the Biegas room.