Explore Wieliczka

The Home Army Museum, named after General Emil Fieldorf 'Nil', was founded in 2000 and occupies a 19th-century brick building on Wita Stwosza Street near Kraków's main station. Its permanent exhibition covers the Polish Underground State and its army, the Armia Krajowa, during the Second World War, with weapons, uniforms, documents and items given by veterans.

Collegium Maius is the oldest building of the Jagiellonian University, assembled from town houses bought in the 15th century around an arcaded Gothic courtyard. It houses the Jagiellonian University Museum, with historic lecture rooms, the treasury, scientific instruments and the Jagiellonian Globe; a clock in the courtyard plays a tune with moving figures.

The National Museum in Kraków, founded in 1879, runs a dozen branches across the city. Its Main Building on Aleja 3 Maja, a stone-clad block whose construction began in 1934, holds galleries of 20th-century Polish art, arms and uniforms, and decorative arts, along with temporary exhibitions.

Kościuszko Mound is an artificial earth mound raised by the people of Kraków in 1820–1823 in memory of Tadeusz Kościuszko, modelled on the prehistoric mounds of Krak and Wanda. The Austrians later built a brick citadel around it; a spiral path leads to the top, about 326 metres above sea level, with a view over the Vistula and the city.