Warsaw Uprising Museum

This guide to the Warsaw Uprising Museum follows the sewers beneath the city in the late summer of 1944, when more than five thousand insurgents crawled underground through a single manhole after German troops overran the Old Town, moving silent and blind for hours through the pipes. You'll hear about soldiers of the Zoska battalion who crawled a night's length across the city center by touch alone, and about the museum's own decades-long path to opening, promised in 1983 and finally built to a mayor's deadline. Listen for the heartbeat sound that runs through the building's core.