Home Army Museum
Trail of War
The General Emil Fieldorf "Nil" Museum tells the story of the Polish Underground State and the Home Army, the Polish armed resistance during the German occupation.
History
The museum tells the story of the Polish Underground State and the Home Army, and its patron is the Kraków-born General Emil Fieldorf "Nil", commander of the Home Army's Kedyw (Directorate of Diversion). It is housed in a building from 1911, erected as a command post of the Austrian Kraków Fortress. The collections, first gathered by veterans, were moved here in 1992, and the museum was established in 2000 as a joint institution of the city and the voivodeship. After a modernisation in which a roof was built over the courtyard, the permanent exhibition opened in 2012. The ground floor presents the September 1939 campaign and life under occupation, and the basement the history of the Home Army. Among the exhibits are reconstructions of a Halifax bomber fuselage and a V-2 rocket, and Tadeusz Kantor's collage "September 1939".
Did you know?
The museum's collections number more than 8000 items, and almost the entire collection was built up from veterans' donations. Among the most important objects is the uniform of General Tadeusz Komorowski "Bór".