Salt mine museums in Kansas, Poland and Germany

Kansas Underground Salt Museum,
Hutchinson
(866) 755-3450, www.undergroundmuseum.org.

Tours are 1 1/2 to two hours and cost $13.50 for adults and $8.50 for kids (ages 4 to 12). Children younger than 4 are not permitted in the mine. Several tours are offered each day, but reservations are recommended because some sell out. The museum is open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays to Saturdays, 1 to 6 p.m. Sundays.

Cracow Salt Works Museum
Wieliczka, Poland
www.muzeum.wieliczka.pl/pl/

Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, May to September. Tickets $1.10 to $1.50. The museum, located in the Salt Works Castle and in the 700-year-old Wieliczka Salt Mine, demonstrates the development of salt mining in Europe, starting in the late 13th century.

German Salt Museum
Lüneburg, Germany
members.aol.com/saltmuseum/

Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays to Fridays; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, May to September. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, October to April. The museum and historic buildings chronicle the history of salt works dating back to the Middle Ages. Admission $5.55.