Top Year-Round Destinations for Family Fun
Vida! Amusement Science Park in Brno
Brno’s exciting Science Park Vida! can be found in the old Hall D of the Brno Exhibition Centre. Spanning more than six thousand square meters, visitors can explore 180 interactive exhibits that help you understand our world better and explain basic natural phenomena. Examples include the Earthquake Plate, an X-ray vision experience, ocean in a bottle, a bicycle suspended on a rope, a rotating room, a flood simulator, a life-sized model of a human heart, an Atta ant colony, an archaeological sandbox, and a Water Printer. It’s highly encouraged to touch and interact with the exhibits here.
Majaland Amusement Park Prague
Take your children on an adventure to the whimsical world of Maya the Bee and the Viking Vilík, located near Ruzyně Airport. At this one-of-a-kind amusement park, you can enjoy twelve themed rides suitable for both kids and adults. A restaurant inside a giant tree provides refreshments. In Majaland, you’ll truly feel like you’ve entered a fairy tale! This indoor theme park features modern attractions. Children can experience a thrilling 220-meter-long roller coaster that can carry up to 550 people every hour at a speed of 40 kilometers per hour, alongside roller coasters towering up to ten meters, a thirty-three-meter slide, giant swings, and a bumper car arena. The fun doesn’t stop there; the park also includes a children’s theater, a toy shop, a restaurant, and a wonderful venue for birthday celebrations, hosting parties, or enjoying concerts featuring children’s favorite entertainers.
Dinosauria – The World of Dinosaurs
Just beside Majaland, take a trip 200 million years back to the times of the great Mesozoic giants. Here, you’ll find the largest private collection of real dinosaur skeletons and models so realistic they might give you chills, along with cutting-edge technology to engage and entertain. Within four thousand square meters, Dinosauria offers a thrilling journey into the prehistoric era, featuring actual dinosaur skeletons that are up to 24 meters long and 154 million years old, lifelike models of the tyrannosaurus rex and the largest flying pterosaur accurately portrayed, virtual reality experiences, a collection of over 6,000 fossils and minerals, and a gallery showcasing renowned Czech paleoartists like Zdeněk Burian, Karel Zeman, and Jan Sovák.
Big and Small World of Technology in Ostrava
If you’re in Ostrava with your children, we suggest visiting The Big World of Technology, covering 14,000 square meters in Dolní Vítkovice. Behind its distinctive mirrored exterior, there are four permanent interactive exhibitions: Children’s World, The World of Science and Discovery, The World of Civilization, and The Natural World. Both kids and adults will find endless enjoyment here. All worlds have a common theme: learning through fun and play, exploring concepts independently without the stress of traditional textbooks filled with numbers. The fascinating displays also include Small World of Technology, where the exhibition narrative cleverly employs titles from Jules Verne’s stories, linking them to specific times in the evolution of industrial technology. This thematic segmentation is inspired by famous works like “Journey to the Centre of the Earth“, “Steel City“, “Around the World in 80 Days“, “Robur the Conqueror“, “Lord of the World“, “From the Earth to the Moon“, “Floating City“, and “Confusion Over Confusion“.
Fortress of Knowledge in Olomouc
Fortress of Knowledge Olomouc is the very first interactive science popularization museum in Central Moravia. Set within the historic Crown Fortress, it belongs to the category of what we call science centers, offering an informal space for instinctive exploration of natural and social phenomena. Different exhibitions focus on themes like water, light and darkness, along with science workshops and a digital planetarium. At the Fortress of Knowledge, you can actively participate in hands-on experiments and get a close-up look at things you won’t find anywhere else. For instance, you could walk through a model of the human brain, meet aquatic insects at life-size dimensions, see a city flooded with a hundred years of water, tackle giant puzzles, or use the digital planetarium to explore the starry night sky.
Fairytale Hell Čertovina near Hlinsko
Now, let’s talk about something for those mischievous kids who can sometimes make life challenging for their parents! Deep in the forests of Čertovina near Hlinsko in East Bohemia, an extraordinary entertainment center known as Hell Čertovina has been established. It’s the only one of its kind. This unique place spans five floors and is crafted by talented Czech carvers, carpenters, blacksmiths, and stonemasons. As part of the entertainment offerings, you can see and even experience what life in hell might be like. You’ll witness the devil’s school, trapeze acts, enjoy a drink served by the most charming devil, stroll through the corridor of the seven deadly sins, and learn directly from Prince Lucifer about what awaits sinful souls—whether they stay with the devils or have a chance to return to the surface. This extraordinary structure extends 12 meters underground, containing hundreds of meters of winding passages and caves…and eight meters upwards. Within this underground realm, you’ll discover, in addition to the labyrinth mentioned, a restaurant that can accommodate 200 guests, an adjoining terrace, Lucifer’s den, a souvenir shop, a game room, a wine bar, and a splendid children’s playground during the summer featuring bouncing attractions.
Praděd Children’s Museum in Bludov
Another great spot for families with younger kids can be found in the spa village of Bludov, nestled at the foot of the Jeseníky Mountains. The Praděd Children’s Museum is a playful amusement park with nearly 600 m2 of engaging exhibitions and a large outdoor playground. The highlight of the exhibitions is Pradědovo village, which features wooden houses that include a grocer’s shop and an inn. The village is inhabited by a Witch, a miller, and even a Railway Station. Kids can enjoy activities like painting with flour, crafting trains, or serving traditional Jesenic cuisine from the inn, made with soft toy dishes. In the outdoor playground, a boat speedway is a standout feature, alongside tunnels, underground telephones, the largest drum-xylophone in Central Europe, slides, herb gardens, and a cable car. There’s even a clay oven for baking buns and a cozy fireplace.
Dinopark Liberec
The only indoor DinoPark that’s open year-round can be found in Liberec at the Plaza Liberec Shopping Gallery. Come and discover the captivating history of the Earth from 65 million years ago—complete with special effects and 70 models of prehistoric creatures, both still and robotic. The adventure starts symbolically with a turning tube, where visitors can experience the simulated big bang and then journey through different prehistoric eras featuring typical animals. The Liberec DinoPark showcases a total of seventy life-size dinosaur models, crafted with incredible attention to detail in thirty different scenes, all accompanied by thrilling sound effects. Additionally, you can visit the well-loved iQpark or iQlandia while in Liberec.
Windows to Prehistory and Wonders of Evolution – Exposition of the National Museum Prague
For those who love paleontology, here are more suggestions: if you haven’t yet explored the new exhibitions at the National Museum in Prague, be sure to add it to your travel list! Both kids and adults will find joy in The Wonders of Evolution, which includes a fascinating skeleton of a killer whale along with 1,500 other unique items. You’ll get to discover the animal kingdom, from the tiny bee-eater, less than one millimeter long, to the enormous and famous 22.5-meter-long whale. A captivating exhibit called Windows into Prehistory is arranged in chronological order, showcasing plenty of trilobites from the Protohistoric period, featuring the Czech dinosaur Burianosaurus augustai from the Mesozoic, a stunning look into the landscape of Czech volcanoes during the Tertiary, and the Quaternary‘s perspectives on how living nature responds to various climate changes. This section includes a giant model of a mammoth with its baby and the remarkable Skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros, notable for being completely preserved.
Children’s Museum at the National Museum
While we’re on the topic of the National Museum, we can’t overlook the newly opened Children’s Museum, located in the New Building. This extensive exhibition offers fresh insights into nature, people, and their creations through interactive exhibits and fun activities designed for exploring the world. The museum features game walls, a slide, a library, workshops, and a screening room showing games from Déco. The exhibitions are divided into ten thematic sections that bridge views of nature, humanity, and their innovations. In the Children’s Museum, the focus is on fostering children’s creativity and imagination through interactive experiences aimed at exploring the surroundings and discovering new perspectives and connections. It also serves as a place for shared experiences, where children, parents, and grandparents can come together to learn from one another.
Puppet Museum and Techmania in Pilsen
In Pilsen’s main square, you’ll find a modern puppetry museum, home to about 300 puppets, some dating back to around 1830, with the largest measuring over 2 meters tall. In this museum, you can see a puppet machine inspired by Karel Novák’s theater and experience a unique animated model of the Škoda Theatre. The museum is interactive, encouraging children to play with puppets, learn fascinating facts, see various types of puppets, and come back for more. Visitors can engage in a brief performance called Puppets, move puppets with their own hands in the playroom, learn interesting information from touch panels, and sit in a chair in front of Spejbl and Hurvín, among many other experiences.
A popular destination for families in Pilsen is the science center Techmania, a hands-on learning venue for the curious. It serves as a bridge connecting informal education with a popular tourist attraction. Techmania features permanent and traveling interactive exhibitions that delve into not just physics, astronomy, chemistry, or biology, but also topics like nutrition, the world of film, and themes relating to espionage. Subjects like physics, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, and biology are also explored through engaging educational shows and lab workshops. Some of the popular interactive exhibits include Universe, Man and Beast, Water World, Edutorium, and Upside Down. Additionally, there are fascinating displays, such as one focused on Criminalistics under the theme Top Secret, and another about renewable energy.
