The construction of the Radium Institute started in 1911. It included physical and chemistry laboratories directed by Marie Curie and a biological laboratory.
On the ground floor of the former Radium Institute, the Curie Institute presents scientific instruments used until the end of the 1930's, in particular those devised to produce artificial radioelements for the first time in the world.
It is here that in January 1934, Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie discovered artificial radioactivity.
Photographs and archives recall "the family of the five Nobel Prizes".
You can visit the office and chemistry laboratory of Marie Curie, which was decontaminated in 1981. Chemistry instruments from the beginning of the century are on show, and a calculation slip, written by Pierre and Marie Curie in 1902. It is still radioactive...