Kraków Saltworks Museum in Wieliczka

The museum has two exhibition spaces:

Saltworks Castle

Wieliczka, ul. Zamkowa 8
phone +48 12 289 16 00
promocja@muzeum.wieliczka.pl
www.muzeum.wieliczka.pl

Opening hours:
September – April Tue-Sat 9am-4.30pm
May – August Tue-Sun 9am-4.30pm

tickets PLN 4/3, family PLN 10
free admission on Saturdays

Permanent exhibition:

Central Castle the oldest structure of the castle complex was built at the end of the 13th century. It is currently open to tourists. It houses three permanent exhibitions devoted to archaeology, history of the town, and a huge collection of... saltcellars. Visitors can also see a magnificent representative chamber called the Gothic Room.  The other part of the complex accessible to the tourists is a 14th-century guard tower, the only facility preserved from the system of Wieliczka's medieval urban fortifications.

Salt Cellars – Small Masterpieces – shepherdesses sitting on baskets, ships complete with sailors, a boy riding a sleigh, a seashell with a Cupid, a car, an aeroplane, a locomotive... Those are just some of the salt cellars on display at the newly opened permanent exhibition.
(photo courtesy of the museum)




Underground exhibition

Wieliczka, ul. Daniłowicza 10
The exhibition has been located on the 3rd level of Wieliczka Salt Mine (135 meters underground). It is accessilbe togetherwith the ticket to the tourist  route through the mine.

Tourist Help Desk: phone +48 12 278 58 49

Opening hours:

• from November to March: Mon-Sun 8am-5pm
• from April to October: Mon-Sun 7:30am-7:30pm

Tickets (together with the Wieliczka Salt Mine tourist route):

• PLN 50/37, family PLN 137 – Polish guided tour
• PLN 65/51, family PLN 181 – foreign langugage guided tour

Permanent exhibition: Sacrum in salt heritage
The nature of underground work, linked to numerous threats to life and health of miners, influenced establishment of underground places of worship. Most frequently encountered in the mine were scenes of Crucifixion, represented at the exhibition by wooden crucifixes from the period between the 17th and the 19th centuries. At the exhibition, attention should first of all be devoted to the original painting on a board – The Guardian Angel from 1691, which constitutes the oldest example of painting from the Wieliczka Salt Mine.