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Popular among Poles and foreign tourists, the museum to Poland’s greatest 19th-century musician closed in the fall of 2022 for the renovation and rearrangement works. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) 1 of 7 A woman near a miniature bust of Frederic Chopin at the refurbished museum of the Polish 19th century pianist and composer, which opens this week displaying also his handwritten letters, at the Frederic Chopin Museum in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, April 27, 2023. Popular among Poles and foreign tourists, the museum to Poland’s greatest 19th-century musician closed in the fall of 2022 for the renovation and rearrangement works. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A baroque Warsaw mansion hosting a museum dedicated to one of Europe’s greatest 19th century musicians, Polish pianist and composer Frederic Chopin, is reopening with a new focus on original artifacts after months of pandemic-spurred renovations. “The main reason of this refurbishing was to create a good atmosphere, good air conditions for the ... original objects,” Artur Szklener, director of the National Frederic Chopin Institute said Thursday. “And at the same time we wanted to change some ideas of the exhibition itself showing more of the originals,“ he told The Associated Press. The museum, which houses Chopin’s last piano, a Pleyel, and manuscripts of his music, will also display new items including letters he wrote to his companion, writer George Sand, and a satirical drawing she made of him, as well as an oil portrait of Chopin by his friend Teofil Kwiatkowski, a fellow Pole. The focus of the renewed exhibition is on the original manuscripts, which take the place of previous copies, and on recreating the mood and style of the times they belong to, museum officials said. “Especially after the pandemic we realized that people are overwhelmed, oversaturated with things that are not original, they have enough of it and they wanted more originals, they wanted to touch the real thing,” Chopin institute spokesman Aleksander Laskowski told the AP. “They cannot touch the letters, obviously, but they almost can.” [70] Entertainment Jerry Springer, politician turned TV ringmaster, dies at 79 Rihanna, Martin Scorsese hype Paramount movies at CinemaCon Fox ratings tumble in Tucker Carlson slot after his firing Ed Sheeran, on guitar, gets musical with a New York jury “That was the reason for change: be original. And we are,” Laskowski said. Seeing the letters in Chopin’s handwriting, written in “beautiful Polish and in a very imaginative way” one cannot help feeling “transported to his age and into his drawing room,” Laskowski said. A large part of the renovation was creating the right technical air and light conditions for exhibiting 19th century manuscripts and other objects, while respecting the architecture of the 17th century Ostrogski Castle. Popular among Poles and foreign tourists, the museum saw an 85% drop in number of visitors during the pandemic. That turned out to be a spur — and an opportunity — for change. It closed in the fall of 2022 for renovation and rearrangement. The global trauma of the deadly pandemic has also led to some exhibit changes or removals, especially in the room documenting Chopin’s death, according to curator Seweryn Kuter. Space has also been made for more items that were owned or linked to the Romantic-era composer, who spent half of his life in Paris, museum officials said. Chopin was born in 1810 in Zelazowa Wola near Warsaw to a Polish mother and a French father. Seeking to develop his talent, he went to Vienna in 1830 and then to Paris, where he settled until his death in 1849. He is buried at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, but his heart was brought to Poland and rests sealed in a pillar of the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw. The museum reopens Saturday. AP NEWS 1. [71]Top Stories 2. [72]Video 3. [73]Contact Us 4. [74]Accessibility Statement 5. (BUTTON) Cookie Settings Download AP NEWS Connect with the definitive source for global and local news More from AP 1. [75]ap.org 2. [76]AP Insights 3. [77]AP Definitive Source Blog 4. [78]AP Images Spotlight 5. [79]AP Explore 6. [80]AP Books 7. [81]AP Stylebook Follow AP 1. 2. 3. 4. The Associated Press 1. [82]About 2. [83]Contact 3. [84]Customer Support 4. [85]Careers 5. [86]Terms & Conditions 6. [87]Privacy All contents © copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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