Curie Museum, Paris

The Curie Museum occupies the ground floor of the Pavillon Curie at the Institut du Radium, where Marie Curie conducted research for the last 20 years of her life (1914–1934). Visitors can walk through her preserved office and decontaminated chemistry laboratory, restored to its 1930s appearance. The permanent exhibition covers four themes: the Curie family's five Nobel Prizes, the history of radium and its once-widespread commercial use, the laboratory instruments used to isolate radioactive elements, and the origins of cancer treatment at Institut Curie.