Galicia Jewish Museum
Deeply moving exhibition exploring Poland's Jewish heritage
Noteworthy for: The museum has an excellent bookstore stocking English language books on Jewish history.
Word to the wise: Galicia is the name of a former region of the 19th century Austrian Empire - stretching from Krakow into western Ukraine - that had a large Jewish population before World War II.
In the mid-90s British photo-journalist Chris Schwarz, working with anthropologist Jonathan Webber, embarked on a project to document the remaining traces of Jewish life in the villages and towns of southern Poland. Schwarz, who died in 2007, felt that public understanding of Poland's Jewish past had become too dominated by images of Auschwitz, and so the project focused not on the Holocaust itself, but rather what it had destroyed.
In 2004 a former warehouse in Kazimierz was transformed into a permanent home for the resulting exhibition, called 'Traces of Memory: A Contemporary Look at the Jewish Past in Poland'. The museum also hosts regularly changing temporary exhibitions examining various aspects of Jewish history and indentity.