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New Museum on Life of Frederic Chopin Opens in Warsaw on the Composer’s 200th Birthday

WARSAW (AP).- The last piano that Frederic Chopin composed on. A death mask made after he succumbed to what was probably tuberculosis. A lock of his brown hair. Those are among objects on display at a new museum dedicated to the life of the Romantic-era composer that opened on his 200th birthday Monday in his native Poland. The interactive multimedia museum is located in the center of Warsaw, where Chopin moved in infancy from a nearby country estate, and where he spent the first 20 years of his life before moving to Paris. Culture Minister Bogdan Zdrojewski hailed it as “the most modern biographical museum in Europe and even the world” at a ceremonial opening that comes amid a year of celebrations of the much-revered musician.