Rynek Underground

Be guided on a 1,5-hour tour of the Rynek Underground, a unique museum situated below the main market square of the city. Explore medieval constructions in this unique archeological reserve, covering nearly 43,000 square feet. Meet your guide at the entrance to the museum, and start your discovery of the past. Learn about the city’s treasures on display while your guide narrates the turbulent history of Medieval Krakow. See reconstructions of 11th-century burials presented in the exhibition. Uncover secrets of the hidden underground with the help of touchscreens, holograms, projections, and documentary films. See Krakow from a whole new perspective.

Your guide will meet you at the entrance to the museum and you start your tour into the past. During your 1,5-hour museum tour you will discover a unique archaeological reserve in Europe, covering nearly 43,000 sq.ft (4000 sq.m). It was fashioned under the surface of the Main Market Square to provide a display for the treasures that had been found and narrate the turbulent history of Medieval Krakow. The oldest history is exemplified by reconstructions of 11th-century burials presented in the exhibition. See the treasures hidden underground, learn a lot with the help of touchscreens, holograms, projections and documentary films. At the end of the tour, when you go to the surface again, you will see Krakow from a new perspective.

Go underground on this fascinating guided tour. Explore Rynek Underground and see reconstructions of 11th-century burial sites, watch movies depicting medieval Krakow, and see historic everyday items. Meet your guide will meet you at the entrance to the museum and begin your journey into the past, exploring this nearly 43,000 square-foot underground museum. Head underneath Market Square and stroll past reconstructions of ancient burials. Walk by exhibits filled with ancient tools and learn how historic Krakow residents lived their lives from your guide. Marvel at holograms, projections, and documentary films and get the kids involved with interactive touchscreens.

The Market Square Underground Museum in Krakow is quite popular among tourists visiting the royal city, so don't hesitate to guarantee your admission in advance. The guide is waiting right next to the museum. Follow it through the museum exhibits to explore this unique archaeological reserve where real artifacts discovered by scientists are mixed with multimedia messages designed to "revive" stone and metal and illustrate what was happening on the Main Square hundreds of years ago. See the reconstructions of the 11th century burials, the model of the city, watch the traders, learn about the city executioner and his tools, listen to many interesting stories.

Take a fascinating tour around the heart of Krakow and the Main Square. Learn about the square's history, find interesting artifacts, and dive deep into the past of the city. Then we will descend 4 meters underground to the Museum of the Underground, to reach the level of the cobbled streets of Krakow in the 12th-13th centuries. What was Krakow like then? What was the purpose of the market square and what was happening there? That's a secret for now, but we'll reveal it during the tour. In the mysterious atmosphere of the underground museum, it will be very easy for us to move to the Middle Ages, and understand the joys and sorrows of the people of that time, their lives, the surrounding architecture, and much more.

Enjoy skip-the-line entry on this guided tour of Rynek Underground Museum. Go underground to get a look at what medieval Krakow was like. Marvel at the museum’s hidden treasures and learn through touchscreens, holograms, projections, and documentary films.  After seeing and hearing what the modern main square of Krakow looks like, venture down the museum stairs a few meters underground and step into the past. Find yourself on the same level as the cobbled streets of ancient Krakow.  Follow your guide around the museum exhibits to experience this unique archaeological reserve covering nearly 43,000 square feet under the surface of Krakow's Main Market Square. See reconstructions of 11th-century burials presented in the exhibition and more.

Krakow's Main Market Square - a place for tourists and residents to walk. The heart of the city, an indispensable point on the Krakow sightseeing route. Cloth Hall, St. Mary's Church, Town Hall Tower, St. Wojciecha, beautiful tenement houses - you probably already know this. And now we invite you to walk a few meters below the Market Square and... a few hundred years back in time to find yourself at the same level where the cobbled streets of Krakow ran in the 12th and 13th centuries. In the mysterious atmosphere of this extraordinary museum, it will be very easy to feel like you are at a bustling market in the Middle Ages, learn about the joys and sorrows of the people of that time, their lives, the architecture surrounding them and much, much more! See a model of the royal city from that period, touch the authentic foundations, ask the guide what goods were traded in the center of Krakow, what measurements were used and how purchases were paid for. Learn about the beginnings of Krakow in an interesting way with a visit to the Market Square Underground Museum.

Visit the central square of Royal Krakow and find the most interesting traces of past events on Market Square. Take a walk on one of the most beautiful squares in Europe with a visit to the Dungeon Market Historical and Archaeological Museum. Stroll around the square, find the most interesting artifacts of the old times, and unravel their purpose. Find out what events took place here, and what legendary persons have been here. Go 4 meters underground to the Dungeon Market Museum to find yourself on the same level as the cobbled roads of 12-13th century Krakow. Explore the residence of Polish Kings at the Royal Wawel Castle. See the collections of paintings, graphics, sculptures, fabrics, goldsmiths, military items, porcelain, and furniture. See the famous tapestries of Zygmunt August and magnificent Renaissance Italian paintings from the Lanckoronski collection in the Royal chambers. See the Wawel collections of Eastern art containing the most important, and largest collection of tents in Europe. Enter the gothic Wawel Cathedral, a sanctuary where Polish monarchs were crowned.

Find out what secrets an underground city is hiding on a guided tour of Rynek Underground. Meet your guide at the entrance to the museum, skip the line and begin your journey into the past. During your 2-hour museum tour discover a unique archaeological reserve in Europe, covering nearly 43,000 sq. ft. It was fashioned under the surface of the Main Market Square to provide a display for the treasures that had been found and narrate the turbulent history of Medieval Krakow. See the treasures hidden underground, learn a lot with the help of touchscreens, holograms, projections, and documentary films. At the end of the tour, when you go to the surface again, you will see Krakow from a new perspective.

Set off with your guide through the charming streets of the Old Town and enter one of the symbols of Krakow - St. Mary's Church. Look towards the sky and discover the beautiful vault and the altar in front of you, carved by the great master Veit Stoss. Listen to urban legends while walking around the Main Square, which has been the central square of Royal Krakow for 800 years! Whatever happened here only at this time! Goods from all over the world were sold in the trade rows, which made Krakow merchants rich, the city authorities strictly supervised order, the executioner tortured suspects in the dungeons of the town hall, and kings paraded through the square to get to their castle. Oh, what a time it was... The most interesting traces of ancient events can still be found on the Market Square, and even more so under the Market Square! You will go 4 meters underground to the archaeological Underground Museum to be on the same level as the cobbled roads of Krakow from the 12th-13th centuries and discover Krakow anew.