When Stanisław Potocki opened Wilanów Palace to the public on 5th August 1805, he created Poland's first public art museum, a remarkable act for a country that had just ceased to exist. Poland had been partitioned out of existence in 1795, carved between Russia, Prussia and Austria, yet here was a Polish aristocrat preserving the royal collection of Jan III Sobieski and opening it to anyone who wished to see it.

The museum occupies the palace interior, where Sobieski's personality is still legible in the rooms. He created a Chinese room filled with exotic items from the Far East, and displayed Turkish trophies from his 1683 victory at Vienna alongside the Roman and Christian imagery framing every facade.

VoiceMap's tour moves through these rooms to show how the palace functioned as deliberate self-portrait, built by a king who wanted posterity to see him exactly as he wished to be seen.