During IAHR 2025, we offer a variety of extracurricular activities. These include a selection of full day trips in and outside of Kraków, afternoon walks around various cultural sites in Kraków, and a visit to the Jagiellonian University Museum Collegium Maius. We also offer free entry or discounts to selected museums in Kraków.

The full day trips are scheduled for Wednesday, the 27th of August. Please note that no academic sessions or keynote lectures are scheduled for that day.

27.08.2025. Start time: 10:00; Return to Kraków: 16:00.  Price: 42 EUR

Come see the lesser-known religious sites around Kraków! Our coach will take you to see the religious wonders of Kraków’s Communist-era worker’s paradise, Nowa Huta, including Kościół Arka Pana (1960s-70s – looks like Noah’s Ark landed on a concrete bunker) and Parafia Szklane Domy (1980s – built of the same brick as workers’ homes but with large geometric glass windows). We’ll grab lunch at the ‘Stylowa’ restaurant, unchanged in décor since the time of the People’s Republic, and then jump forward to one of Krakow’s newest additions to the religious landscape, the Hindu Mandir in Brzegi.  

27.08.2025. Start time: 10:00; Return to Kraków: 16:00.  Price: 60 EUR

The monastery of Jasna Góra (Bright Hill) at Częstochowa is Poland’s most famous and most frequently visited pilgrimage site, with more than 4 million visitors a year.  It is home to the famous icon of the Black Madonna who bears scars to show her suffering at the hands of attackers. (And she also does extra duty as the Loa Erzulie in some quarters.) Our coach tour will include the gorgeous Baroque architecture of the shrine, the monastery, and the Saint Pope John Paul II Museum, as well as a stop for lunch. 

27.08.2025. Start time: 9:00; Return to Kraków: 17:00.  Price: 70 EUR

Our longest tour will take us to see ‘Karpacka Troja’, an archaeological site with not one, but two lost cities – built thousands of years apart – one on top of the other. Sections of the cities’ buildings have been reconstructed for visitors, and there is a museum show the treasures uncovered, as well as a small experimental farm with older varieties of domestic animals. We’ll have a picnic lunch and a choice of workshops (pottery or archery) and then head to the Jagiellonian University vineyard on the way home for wine-tasting.

These trips are organized by an external provider (SeeKrakow) and should be arranged individually. They can be booked for the 27th of August, or for any other day before or after the congress. Due to high demand, we recommend you book those trips as soon as possible. Please follow the links below for details:

Auschwitz Birkenau: Find out more and book

Wieliczka Salt Mine: Find out more and book

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