Rynek Underground Museum

The Rynek Underground Museum lies directly beneath Kraków's Main Market Square and offers a fascinating look into the city's history across roughly 4,000 square meters. Since opening in 2010, its main exhibition, "Following the Traces of Kraków's European Identity," has used holograms, fog machines, and projectors to recreate the atmosphere of seven hundred years ago. Here you can marvel at medieval finds such as coins, tools, weapons, and a heavy piece of lead, while interactive touchscreens display three-dimensional models of the objects. Especially impressive are the glass-floored walkways, beneath which lie preserved medieval streets and building structures. These include reconstructions of workshops and merchants' stalls, remains of old water pipes, and the remnants of burned settlements from the 11th century.