The Adam Mickiewicz Museum presents the life and work of Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), the greatest Polish romantic poet. It was created by his son Władysław in 1903. Mickiewicz is to the Poles what Goethe is to the Germans: symbol of national identity and cultural unity. A political emigrant, a pilgrim of freedom, he spent much of his life in Paris, where he made illustrious friendships and professed brilliantly at the Collège de France. For today’s Europeans, Mickiewicz is among the first visionaries of united Europe.

The Chopin Salon is the only place in France dedicated to the greatest Polish composer, Frédéric Chopin (1810 – 1849). Exiled to Paris in 1831, Chopin lived there until his death. He will be the legendary pianist of the Salon Pleyel, the composer of the famous Polish, mazurkas, ballads and waltzes, and also the most admired pedagogue of Paris, European capital of romanticism.

The Boleslas Biegas Museum, inaugurated by the SHLP with the support of MM. Guido Biazzi and Claude Kechichian present a selection of collections from the bequest of Polish sculptor, painter and playwright Boleslas Biegas (1877 – 1954), linked to the Vienna Secession movement, who since 1901 had lived in Paris surrounded by friends of the symbolist circle of «La Plume». In this museum are presented the works of Biegas, whose sculptures were more popular than those of Rodin, also those of other Polish artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Polish Library of Paris