UNDERGROUND – A WORLD WRESTED FROM DARKNESS

Underground – a world wrested from darkness

Underground is not only cellars, grottoes, bunkers, adits or caves. It is above all a mysterious world governed by entirely different rules, a kind of hidden Atlantis. Lands where unknown organisms live in absolute darkness. This name also covers the part of society's activity that is generally unknown and hidden from view on a daily basis, actions that are incomprehensible or even outright illegal.

At the exhibition Underground – a world wrested from darkness, presented in the Gmach Główny, we can explore in comfortable conditions the secrets governing this microcosm, unknown to most of us. We will find in it historical, geological, zoological, botanical and even technical threads. We will learn not only how caves formed, or why adits were dug in the Tatras, but also who studied them and how life adapted to these inhospitable conditions.

Curator: dr Marcin Warchałowski

HONORARY PATRONAGE: Mayor of the City of Zakopane

MEDIA PATRONAGE: Tygodnik Podhalański, 24tp.pl, Ogólnopolskie Towarzystwo Ochrony Nietoperzy, Radio 357, Ściana Tatr

The exhibition can be viewed from 16 May 2026 to 28 February 2027 in the Gmach Główny of the Tatra Museum, ul. Krupówki 10.