The romantic manor set in a verdant, well-tended park is the birthplace of the
composer Fryderyk Chopin (1810–49). At the time of his birth, however, it was no
more than a thatched outbuilding in which Chopin’s parents, Mikołaj and Justyna
Tekla, rented a few rooms. In 1930–31, the building was converted into the Chopin Museum  (Muzeum – Dom Urodzenia Fryderyka Chopina) and
the park around it planted with trees and shrubs donated by horticulturalists
from all over Poland. Inside were assembled all kinds of objects associated with
the composer. During the German occupation, many of these were looted by the
Nazis, the music of Chopin was banned and all pictures and busts of the composer
were destroyed. After World War II, the manor was rebuilt, and in 1948 the
museum was finally reopened once more to the public.

Concerts of Chopin’s music are given in the house and garden, providing visitors
with a unique opportunity to hear the music of the most inspired composer of the
Romantic period in the atmosphere of an early 19th-century mansion.

Near Żelazowa Wola lies the village of Brochów , on the edge of
the Kampinoska Forest (Puszcza Kampinoska). Fryderyk Chopin was christened in
the fortified Renaissance church here.