The young Chopin hopped around three separate residences in Warsaw, though only one will be of use to visitors. Saski Palace - where his father worked as a tutor - was in the process of being rebuilt (work now halted and temporarily abandoned), while Kazimierzowski Palace is closed off to visitors as part of Warsaw University – a plaque on the right wing commemorates his fleeting presence. Instead pay a visit to Czapski Palace (formerly Krasiński Palace) on Krakowskie Przedmieście, a place Chopin himself described as his ‘refuge’. Reconstructed in 1960 and opened to the public in 1969 none of the original furnishings survived the war, though the period furniture on display has been faithfully assembled to recreate his drawing room as seen in an Antoni Kolberg painting made in 1832. Chopin lived and entertained here from 1827 until his last day in Poland, and today some of the antiques on display include a writing desk owned by his elder sister and a pianoforte dating from 1830, as well as paintings of his mother, sister and tutor. Another pianoforte on show was once allegedly used by Franz Liszt. That’s not the only famous connection – poet Cyprian Norwid attended school in this building. 

 Admission 3/2zł, Wed free.