The uses of salt are appreciated by everybody but not everyone knows the history of mining of this valuable mineral. A visit to the Kraków Salt Works Museum – one of the biggest mining museums in Europe – will reveal to you the secrets of the salt mining process. The museum has two permanent exhibitions: an underground one, located on the third level of the historic salt mine in Wieliczka, and one located on the surface, in the Salt Works Castle.
Historical museum objects can be found at a depth of 135 metres, and this creates a unique mining heritage museum. One can become acquainted here with the history of the formation and extraction of salt. The one and only collection of old wooden pulling machines – ancestors of steam and electric machines – is available to view here.
Museum objects collected in a historic working, at the depth of 135 metres, create a unique mining heritage museum. One can become acquainted here with the history of formation and extraction of salt. The one and only collection of old wooden pulling machines – ancestors of steam and electric machines – is available here.
In the heart of Wieliczka, in the Salt Works Castle, exhibitions concerning archaeology and history of the town are on display. At the Salt Cellars – Small Masterpieces exhibition, unique salt cellars are presented, for example in the shape of an airplane or gilded little ships with sailors.
In 2013 the Salt Works Castle in Wieliczka was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Elaborated by Julia Czapla, Joanna Kotarba,

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Photograph by Sebastian Woźniak, arch. MIK (2013),

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