The Chopin Museum - the biggest Chopin collection in the world.

The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, founded in 1934, has initiated the beginnings of the Chopin Museum collection. Before the World War II in the collection there were 13 music autograph manuscripts and letters, at present the Museum holds over five thousand objects, among which there are autograph manuscripts and first editions of the works of Chopin, his correspondence, documents, important editions of the works of Chopin and his contemporaries as well as paintings, graphics and sculptures.

In 1953 the Museum in the Ostrogski Palace was officially opened under the sign of the Fryderyk Chopin Society, and in 1955 exhibitions started to be organized. At the same time the Museum was constantly expanding the collection, and this process of gathering new exhibits is still in progress. The Museum is doing research on auctions all over the world, also owing a lot to the generosity of the donors.

The substance of the collection, at present kept under supervision of The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, is made of the deposits of the Fryderyk Chopin Society. The rest of the collection is owned by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, Treasury and other institutions and private persons. 

Part of the collection of autograph manuscripts held in the Museum and whose from the National Library were in 1999 officially put on the UNESCO list "Memory of the World Register".