Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1905, Sienkiewicz is best known as the author of Quo Vadis, a birth-of-Christianity epic that has been translated into 50 languages. The museum is located in a house that once belonged the Italian architect Jean Baptiste Quadro (that’s his bust you can see outside), and the collection is the life work of Ignacy Moś, who started collecting Sienkiewicz memorabilia after paying the ransom to free Sienkiewicz’s only son from the Gestapo. The exhibition includes the authors John Lennon-style specs, post-mortem facial and hand casts, correspondences and a collection of his novels including an English version of Quo Vadis dating from 1899. The opulent rooms are crowded with chandeliers, portraits and period furniture, his writing desk and pictures of our hero posing with his series of wives.
