The Adam Mickiewicz Museum is a historic house museum dedicated to the life of Adam Mickiewicz; The famous Polish poet, located in the Beyoglu district on the European side of Istanbul, in the house where he lived and died the poet who came to Turkey in September 1855 to help organize the Polish forces under the command of the Ottoman army. The house was renovated after a fire in 1870, and the museum was opened in 1955 with the help of the Museum of Literature in Warsaw. Today the museum houses some of Adam Mitskevich's manuscripts, historical documents and paintings, and the crypt where he was temporarily buried for one month is located in the basement of the museum.