Nowa Huta Underground: State Of Emergency

Beneath a school playground in Nowa Huta, Kraków's monumental Cold War-era workers' district, this guide opens a bunker sealed and forgotten for forty years. It traces why more than two hundred fifty shelters were dug under the district's streets and apartment blocks from the 1950s, and what curators say those shelters really offered residents. From there it turns outward to models of bunkers from around the world, asking why the instinct to hide underground runs so deep in the first place.