The Museum of Industry and Agriculture is a museum of technology

Technology

Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

 at Krakowskie Przedmieście 66

Krakowskie Przedmiescie

Krakowskie Przedmieście is one of the most impressive and prestigious streets of Poland's capital.Several other Polish cities also have streets named Krakowskie Przedmieście. In Lublin, it is the main and most elegant street...

in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

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History

It was founded in 1866, chartered on June 5, 1875, opened in 1905, and destroyed in 1939 during World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. From 1881 it was housed on Krakowskie Przedmieście

Krakowskie Przedmiescie

Krakowskie Przedmieście is one of the most impressive and prestigious streets of Poland's capital.Several other Polish cities also have streets named Krakowskie Przedmieście. In Lublin, it is the main and most elegant street...

in a former guardhouse and Bernardine monastery. It documented the history of Polish industry, agriculture and crafts. An 1875 co-founder was the Polish-Jewish banker and philanthropist Hyppolite Wawelberg.

It was in a physics laboratory run by Józef Boguski

Józef Boguski

Józef Jerzy Boguski was a Polish chemist and a professor at the Warsaw Polytechnic.-Life:Boguski had served as an assistant in St...

 at the Museum that Maria Skłodowska (Marie Curie), future investigator of "radioactivity" (a term that she would coin) and future double Nobel laureate, in 1890–91 did her first scientific work.