The Prince Czartoryski Museum in Kraków has opened its newly restored Klasztorek building with an exhibition of 1,800 items from its collection, among them a quill pen belonging to Voltaire!
Many of the weird and wonderful exhibits on show for the first time, were amassed in the 18th-century by Izabela Czartoryska, who travelled widely in Europe and met leading figures of the Enlightenment.
Other items include "the chair of English playwright William Shakespeare, a lump of dry bread allegedly from the plate of French emperor Napoleon, a tuft of grass from the Homeric city of Troy, a bronze cast of Chopin’s hand and two stones from the tomb of Romeo and Juliet in Verona"
Preserving a Polish Past: Izabela Czartoryska and the First National Museum – Postcard Poland
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