‘The Underground Market Square’ - museum in Krakow opens

The “Traces of Krakow’s European Identity” exhibition - a separate enterprise to the National Museum-run gallery upstairs - will open tonight, 24 September, at 8 pm, and will lead visitors underground and through the history of Krakow as a major hub on the crossroads of ancient trading routes. The Sukiennice building itself arose as a trade hall, and at the height of Krakow’s golden age in the 15th century, you could find everything from silk to spices to salt in the Cloth Hall’s stalls. Now, those ancient roads have been dug up and restored, and the wooden stalls have been recreated, as part of a tour through the history of this part of Europe.