Muzeum Farmacji (Pharmacy Museum)
A branch of the Jagiellonian University Medical School, this fascinating museum is housed in a beautiful townhouse and is crammed with old laboratory equipment, rare pharmaceutical instruments, heaps of glassware, stoneware, mortars, jars, barrels, medical books and documents. There are recreated pharmacies dating back to the 19th and early-20th centuries, and the garret is crammed with elixirs and panaceas, including vile vials or dried mummy powder.

ulica Florianska 25
Tel: (012) 421 9279.
Website: www.cm-uj.krakow.pl

Muzeum Galicja (Galicia Museum)
The relatively new Galicia Museum celebrates Jewish culture in Galicia, an overwhelmingly Jewish province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that included Cracow, and commemorates the victims of the Holocaust. The photo exhibition depicting modern-day remnants of south-eastern Poland's once thriving Jewish community is particularly impressive.

ulica Dajwor 18
Tel: (012) 421 6842.
Website: www.galiciajewishmuseum.org

Centrum Sztuki i Techniki Japonskiej Manggha (Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology)
While this modern structure may appear to be at odds with Cracow's many historic buildings, the centre has one of the continent's finest collection of ancient Japanese art, ceramics, weapons, fabrics, scrolls and woodcuts. It features some 7,000 pieces collected by Feliks Jasienski (1861-1929), who first discovered Japanese art while studying in Paris in the 1880s. He adopted the pseudonym Manggha from a transliteration of the Japanese manga, the title of Hokusu's famous series of sketches, and donated his collection to the National Museum in Cracow in 1920.

ulica Konopnickiej 26
Tel: (012) 267 2703.
Website: www.manggha.krakow.pl

Nowa Huta (New Town)
Although all traces of communist rule have been erased from Cracow's Old Town, those with an interest in Socialist architecture can travel out of town to the model Soviet suburb of New Town. The Malopolska Tourist Information Centre (tel: (012) 421 7706; www.mcit.pl), on the Main Market Square, organises tours.
 
This ‘New Steelworks', with its wide boulevards, geometrically ordered streets and imposing buildings, extends from the plac Centralny (Central Square). Yet, while it characterises communist architectural style, it also displays the Poles' resistance to certain aspects of communism - as can be witnessed by the Church of Our Lady Queen of Poland, designed by Wojciech Peitrzyk and built between 1967 and 1977. It is known as Arka Pana (Lord's Ark) due to its shape.

The Church of St Bartholomew, located at ulica Klasztorna, just in front of the 18th-century Cistercian Abbey, dates from 1466 and is Poland's only surviving example of a three-nave wooden church. It contains beautiful 14th-century frescos and a sculpture of Jesus. 

Also worth a visit is the art gallery in the Nowa Huta Cultural Centre, located at aleja Jana Pawla II.

Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury (Nowa Huta Cultural Centre)
aleja Jana Pawla II 232
Tel: (012) 644 0266.
Website: www.nh.pl or www.nck.krakow.pl