Rynek Underground
Archaeological museum four metres beneath the Main Market Square, entered through the Cloth Hall.
Rynek Underground is a branch of the Museum of Kraków, opened in September 2010 after archaeological excavations under the eastern half of the Main Market Square between 2005 and 2010. The dig reached roughly four metres below the present paving and uncovered the levels of the medieval square: stone road surfaces, the foundations of merchants' stalls and the lead-smelting workshops, and burials from an earlier cemetery. The reserve was created in situ, so visitors walk on glass floors above the exposed strata.
The permanent exhibition, 'Following the Traces of the European Identity of Kraków', covers about 4,000 square metres and sets the finds in the context of the city's trade with Bohemia, Hungary, the Rhineland and the Baltic. Reconstructions, holograms, touch screens and projected films are used alongside excavated objects, and a model shows the square as it stood in the fourteenth century. The entrance is on the north-eastern side of the Cloth Hall.
Highlights
- Glass walkways above excavated medieval street levels
- Foundations of merchants' stalls and lead-smelting workshops
- Around 4,000 square metres of underground exhibition
- Entered from the north-east side of the Cloth Hall
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