Gdynia is the Tricity's sea-facing town, and most of a family day here happens close to the water. This collection gathers what we'd do with kids: harbor museums and ships you can climb aboard, beaches and piers, forest parks on the hills above town, indoor play for wet days, and family shows and festivals as they come up.
Tuwim Plays! is a children's concert of songs built on the words of Tuwim, the Polish poet. A live orchestra plays, and the songs carry the program from start to finish.
It is in Polish and the words matter, so it suits kids who follow Polish songs best. Kids who already know some of Tuwim's rhymes will get the most out of it.
Marysia wants a goldfish for her birthday. Her parents give her an algae eater named Ryszard instead. Neither is pleased. Rysio can pull her into his tank, so the story moves underwater among a starfish, a snail and a golden fish. The actors sing original songs live, plus new takes on Polish preschool classics like "Stary niedźwiedź mocno śpi". A story about finding a friend where you least expect one.
A Polish-language musical for kids, made for Gdynia's 100th birthday. Majka and Kajtek board a trolleybus to the station, but a homeless little Light sends it on a detour through the city's past: the Kashubian village Gdynia once was, divers building the port, a sailor with oranges from the Baltona shop, and the old Oksywie lighthouse. Original songs, a life-size trolleybus on stage and quick dance numbers keep it moving.
Christmas Gifts for Many Voices is a Christmas concert in the Little Gdynia Philharmonic (Mała Gdyńska Filharmonia) series, made for children and the grown-ups who bring them.
It takes place indoors at the Port of Gdynia's concert hall, so December weather on the Baltic doesn't matter. It suits preschoolers and primary-age kids best.
A short funicular in central Gdynia that carries riders up Kamienna Góra in a glass gondola. The ride takes about two minutes, covers 96 meters of track and climbs 40 meters, with no stops on the way.
At the top are a park with quiet paths, a summer amphitheater and a viewing platform looking out over the sea and the city.
A 50-hectare garden, mostly beech and oak-hornbeam forest, with 31 plant collections in a fenced center: a pond, a heath, an old-variety orchard and a sensory maze. Outside the fence, two marked forest trails, the Alice in the Enchanted Forest trail and the Roots Trail, stay open all week. Sculptures from an art festival stand among the trees, and Garden Sundays bring workshops led by foresters and botanists.
Polanka Redłowska is a wide, open meadow by the sea, next to the Kępa Redłowska nature reserve, a protected beech forest with views over Gdynia. Families spread picnic blankets on the grass, and the city runs two bonfire spots and three grill spots on the meadow.
Forest paths lead into the reserve, and Redłowo Beach is right beside it, with a playground and an outdoor gym nearby.
Park Centralny is a 7-hectare green strip along Piłsudskiego Avenue in central Gdynia. Kids get a fenced playground with a drawing wall, a rope playground for older children, a multimedia fountain with light shows, and a skatepark with a section for riders up to 12.
There is also a sensory garden, a pond, a picnic lawn, a dog run, running and skating loops, and an outdoor gym.
A promenade of more than 1.5 km along the Gulf of Gdańsk, squeezed between the slope of Kamienna Góra and the sea, from the city beach to Redłowo beach. It starts at the Gdynia Fish, a metal sculpture of three fish, and ends at a sculpture of two salmon, a gift from sister city Seattle. Steps lead down to the sand, and a small concrete pier juts into the bay.
Kościuszko Square is the seafront heart of Gdynia: a fountain, modernist townhouses and the Maritime Poland monument. It runs straight onto the South Pier, built on a man-made peninsula into the sea.
Moored along the quay are two museum ships, the warship ORP Błyskawica and the tall ship Dar Pomorza. Further out are the Avenue of Passenger Ships, the Joseph Conrad monument, the Sails monument and the Gdynia Aquarium.
A wooden pier, a beach and a steep cliff where the Kępa Redłowska forest reserve meets the Bay of Gdańsk in Gdynia. The 180-meter pier gives views back to the cliff and south to Sopot's pier.
The cliff rises up to 40 meters, with rust-colored iron streaks and brown coal in its face. By the pier entrance, a statue of marine painter Antoni Suchanek sits on a bench.
A forest adventure park at the edge of the Tricity Landscape Park. Small kids clamber over ropes, nets and footbridges set about 20 cm off the ground, while older ones climb tree-top courses in helmet and harness after an instructor's briefing. A 500-meter zip line crosses the horse paddock with views over Gdańsk Bay. Archery, paintball and horse riding lessons fill out the day.
Gdynia City Museum tells the story of a city only a hundred years old, built around a Baltic port. The permanent exhibition, Gdynia: An Open Work, fills the second and third floors with photographs, posters, maps and documents, from the interwar boom through the 1970 and 1980 workers' protests.
Temporary shows lean toward Polish design, and the education team runs family workshops, city games and sensory play for toddlers.
An arthouse cinema with three screens named after old Gdynia cinemas: Warszawa (227 seats), Goplana and Morskie Oko, all with 4K projection and 7.1 sound. The program mixes critically acclaimed films from around the world with a wide lineup for young audiences, including Bajka w Centrum, film sessions for kids built around Polish animated shorts.
Outside, the grassy square and concert shell host open-air screenings and concerts.
The Emigration Museum fills the historic Maritime Station (Dworzec Morski) in Gdynia's port. Its permanent exhibition follows the Sikora family to America, and kids can step into a transatlantic liner cabin, an aircraft interior and a Fiat 125p, touch and smell exhibits, and peek through spyholes in the walls.
The Little Traveller Room has books on travel and cultures and a model of the MS Batory liner.
The Naval Museum in Gdynia tells the story of the Polish Navy from 1918 to joining NATO, with a modern permanent exhibition, models of old sailing ships, and an armory of real naval guns, torpedoes and sea mines, many taken from Polish warships.
Next to it sits ORP Sokół, a Norwegian-built submarine that served until 2018. Kids can step inside the 47-meter hull that carried a crew of 21.
Teatr Muzyczny im. Danuty Baduszkowej has staged musicals, operettas, ballet and fairy-tale shows since 1958, with more than 450 premieres including Shrek, Hairspray and Notre Dame de Paris. Its three stages (Large, New and Chamber) seat over 1,500 people in total, making it the largest musical theater in Poland.
Since 1991 its Teatr Muzyczny Junior program has run movement and musical-theater workshops for young performers.
Dar Pomorza is a three-masted sailing ship built in 1909 that trained Polish merchant navy cadets from the 1930s to the 1980s. It is now a museum ship moored at Pomorskie Quay in Gdynia.
Kids walk the main deck and go below through four levels: the commander's room, mess, ship's hospital, wheelhouse and engine room, each kept with objects from the ship and its crews.
Gdynia Aquarium spreads more than 200 water species over eight halls on five floors, from Amazon tropics and a coral reef to the open Pacific, the Baltic and the cold North Atlantic. The Cold Seas hall, opened in 2024 below sea level in the basement, holds unusual jellyfish and crustaceans.
It is run by the National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, and a free web app guide explains each animal.
An open-air rink with a 20 by 40 meter sheet of ice, set up each winter on the car park between Polsat Plus Arena Gdynia and Riviera mall. The rental point hires skates, helmets and penguin-shaped skating aids that beginners push across the ice, and a service desk sharpens dull blades. On opening night, New Year's Eve and Valentine's Day a DJ plays on the ice.
A hands-on science center in Gdynia where kids test the exhibits instead of reading about them. Magnesto has 10 magnetism stations, including an electromagnetic accelerator and magnet races. Tajemnice głębin shows over 40 models of deep-sea creatures, from vampire squid to glowing jellyfish. Other halls cover the human body, water, health, physics and nature, and family workshops run alongside the exhibitions.
An indoor trampoline park with more than 140 trampolines split into six zones: a main arena where 25 people can jump at once, a foam pit, three tumbling lanes that end in basketball hoops for slam dunks, a dodgeball court, acrobatic tracks and high-bounce sport trampolines.
Every session opens with a safety video, and JUMPCITY trainers stay on the floor to spot jumpers and help with new tricks.
Amazonia is a jungle-themed indoor play center on Świętojańska street, built around a 450 m2, three-level climbing structure. Kids tackle a roller slide, a pontoon slide, a family slide three can ride at once, the Spiderman rope tower, ball cannons, trampolines and a small football and basketball court.
Toddlers get their own zone with a ball pool. A multimedia room with an interactive floor and Kinect games comes with entry.
Leć w Kulki is an aviation-themed indoor play hall in Gdynia built around a large climbing frame for kids who like to climb and jump. Beyond the frame there's an Air Toobz ball blower, magnetic blocks, a Lego corner and a small library.
Parents wait in a café corner with coffee and snacks, and the hall can be booked exclusively for birthday parties.
Witawa Zabawa is a large indoor play hall on the ground floor of the CH Witawa shopping center in Gdynia. Kids climb multi-level frames, ride twisting slides, jump into ball pits and tumble on soft mats.
A cafe for parents sits inside the hall, so adults can have a coffee with the play area in view. Two party rooms host birthdays, and the hall runs themed events such as sleepovers.
Gdynia is the Tricity's sea-facing town, and most of a family day here happens close to the water. This collection gathers what we'd do with kids: harbor museums and ships you can climb aboard, beaches and piers, forest parks on the hills above town, indoor play for wet days, and family shows and festivals as they come up.
Tuwim Plays! is a children's concert of songs built on the words of Tuwim, the Polish poet. A live orchestra plays, and the songs carry the program from start to finish.
It is in Polish and the words matter, so it suits kids who follow Polish songs best. Kids who already know some of Tuwim's rhymes will get the most out of it.
Marysia wants a goldfish for her birthday. Her parents give her an algae eater named Ryszard instead. Neither is pleased. Rysio can pull her into his tank, so the story moves underwater among a starfish, a snail and a golden fish. The actors sing original songs live, plus new takes on Polish preschool classics like "Stary niedźwiedź mocno śpi". A story about finding a friend where you least expect one.
A Polish-language musical for kids, made for Gdynia's 100th birthday. Majka and Kajtek board a trolleybus to the station, but a homeless little Light sends it on a detour through the city's past: the Kashubian village Gdynia once was, divers building the port, a sailor with oranges from the Baltona shop, and the old Oksywie lighthouse. Original songs, a life-size trolleybus on stage and quick dance numbers keep it moving.
Christmas Gifts for Many Voices is a Christmas concert in the Little Gdynia Philharmonic (Mała Gdyńska Filharmonia) series, made for children and the grown-ups who bring them.
It takes place indoors at the Port of Gdynia's concert hall, so December weather on the Baltic doesn't matter. It suits preschoolers and primary-age kids best.
A short funicular in central Gdynia that carries riders up Kamienna Góra in a glass gondola. The ride takes about two minutes, covers 96 meters of track and climbs 40 meters, with no stops on the way.
At the top are a park with quiet paths, a summer amphitheater and a viewing platform looking out over the sea and the city.
A 50-hectare garden, mostly beech and oak-hornbeam forest, with 31 plant collections in a fenced center: a pond, a heath, an old-variety orchard and a sensory maze. Outside the fence, two marked forest trails, the Alice in the Enchanted Forest trail and the Roots Trail, stay open all week. Sculptures from an art festival stand among the trees, and Garden Sundays bring workshops led by foresters and botanists.
Polanka Redłowska is a wide, open meadow by the sea, next to the Kępa Redłowska nature reserve, a protected beech forest with views over Gdynia. Families spread picnic blankets on the grass, and the city runs two bonfire spots and three grill spots on the meadow.
Forest paths lead into the reserve, and Redłowo Beach is right beside it, with a playground and an outdoor gym nearby.
Park Centralny is a 7-hectare green strip along Piłsudskiego Avenue in central Gdynia. Kids get a fenced playground with a drawing wall, a rope playground for older children, a multimedia fountain with light shows, and a skatepark with a section for riders up to 12.
There is also a sensory garden, a pond, a picnic lawn, a dog run, running and skating loops, and an outdoor gym.
A promenade of more than 1.5 km along the Gulf of Gdańsk, squeezed between the slope of Kamienna Góra and the sea, from the city beach to Redłowo beach. It starts at the Gdynia Fish, a metal sculpture of three fish, and ends at a sculpture of two salmon, a gift from sister city Seattle. Steps lead down to the sand, and a small concrete pier juts into the bay.
Kościuszko Square is the seafront heart of Gdynia: a fountain, modernist townhouses and the Maritime Poland monument. It runs straight onto the South Pier, built on a man-made peninsula into the sea.
Moored along the quay are two museum ships, the warship ORP Błyskawica and the tall ship Dar Pomorza. Further out are the Avenue of Passenger Ships, the Joseph Conrad monument, the Sails monument and the Gdynia Aquarium.
A wooden pier, a beach and a steep cliff where the Kępa Redłowska forest reserve meets the Bay of Gdańsk in Gdynia. The 180-meter pier gives views back to the cliff and south to Sopot's pier.
The cliff rises up to 40 meters, with rust-colored iron streaks and brown coal in its face. By the pier entrance, a statue of marine painter Antoni Suchanek sits on a bench.
A forest adventure park at the edge of the Tricity Landscape Park. Small kids clamber over ropes, nets and footbridges set about 20 cm off the ground, while older ones climb tree-top courses in helmet and harness after an instructor's briefing. A 500-meter zip line crosses the horse paddock with views over Gdańsk Bay. Archery, paintball and horse riding lessons fill out the day.
Gdynia City Museum tells the story of a city only a hundred years old, built around a Baltic port. The permanent exhibition, Gdynia: An Open Work, fills the second and third floors with photographs, posters, maps and documents, from the interwar boom through the 1970 and 1980 workers' protests.
Temporary shows lean toward Polish design, and the education team runs family workshops, city games and sensory play for toddlers.
An arthouse cinema with three screens named after old Gdynia cinemas: Warszawa (227 seats), Goplana and Morskie Oko, all with 4K projection and 7.1 sound. The program mixes critically acclaimed films from around the world with a wide lineup for young audiences, including Bajka w Centrum, film sessions for kids built around Polish animated shorts.
Outside, the grassy square and concert shell host open-air screenings and concerts.
The Emigration Museum fills the historic Maritime Station (Dworzec Morski) in Gdynia's port. Its permanent exhibition follows the Sikora family to America, and kids can step into a transatlantic liner cabin, an aircraft interior and a Fiat 125p, touch and smell exhibits, and peek through spyholes in the walls.
The Little Traveller Room has books on travel and cultures and a model of the MS Batory liner.
The Naval Museum in Gdynia tells the story of the Polish Navy from 1918 to joining NATO, with a modern permanent exhibition, models of old sailing ships, and an armory of real naval guns, torpedoes and sea mines, many taken from Polish warships.
Next to it sits ORP Sokół, a Norwegian-built submarine that served until 2018. Kids can step inside the 47-meter hull that carried a crew of 21.
Teatr Muzyczny im. Danuty Baduszkowej has staged musicals, operettas, ballet and fairy-tale shows since 1958, with more than 450 premieres including Shrek, Hairspray and Notre Dame de Paris. Its three stages (Large, New and Chamber) seat over 1,500 people in total, making it the largest musical theater in Poland.
Since 1991 its Teatr Muzyczny Junior program has run movement and musical-theater workshops for young performers.
Dar Pomorza is a three-masted sailing ship built in 1909 that trained Polish merchant navy cadets from the 1930s to the 1980s. It is now a museum ship moored at Pomorskie Quay in Gdynia.
Kids walk the main deck and go below through four levels: the commander's room, mess, ship's hospital, wheelhouse and engine room, each kept with objects from the ship and its crews.
Gdynia Aquarium spreads more than 200 water species over eight halls on five floors, from Amazon tropics and a coral reef to the open Pacific, the Baltic and the cold North Atlantic. The Cold Seas hall, opened in 2024 below sea level in the basement, holds unusual jellyfish and crustaceans.
It is run by the National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, and a free web app guide explains each animal.
An open-air rink with a 20 by 40 meter sheet of ice, set up each winter on the car park between Polsat Plus Arena Gdynia and Riviera mall. The rental point hires skates, helmets and penguin-shaped skating aids that beginners push across the ice, and a service desk sharpens dull blades. On opening night, New Year's Eve and Valentine's Day a DJ plays on the ice.
A hands-on science center in Gdynia where kids test the exhibits instead of reading about them. Magnesto has 10 magnetism stations, including an electromagnetic accelerator and magnet races. Tajemnice głębin shows over 40 models of deep-sea creatures, from vampire squid to glowing jellyfish. Other halls cover the human body, water, health, physics and nature, and family workshops run alongside the exhibitions.
An indoor trampoline park with more than 140 trampolines split into six zones: a main arena where 25 people can jump at once, a foam pit, three tumbling lanes that end in basketball hoops for slam dunks, a dodgeball court, acrobatic tracks and high-bounce sport trampolines.
Every session opens with a safety video, and JUMPCITY trainers stay on the floor to spot jumpers and help with new tricks.
Amazonia is a jungle-themed indoor play center on Świętojańska street, built around a 450 m2, three-level climbing structure. Kids tackle a roller slide, a pontoon slide, a family slide three can ride at once, the Spiderman rope tower, ball cannons, trampolines and a small football and basketball court.
Toddlers get their own zone with a ball pool. A multimedia room with an interactive floor and Kinect games comes with entry.
Leć w Kulki is an aviation-themed indoor play hall in Gdynia built around a large climbing frame for kids who like to climb and jump. Beyond the frame there's an Air Toobz ball blower, magnetic blocks, a Lego corner and a small library.
Parents wait in a café corner with coffee and snacks, and the hall can be booked exclusively for birthday parties.
Witawa Zabawa is a large indoor play hall on the ground floor of the CH Witawa shopping center in Gdynia. Kids climb multi-level frames, ride twisting slides, jump into ball pits and tumble on soft mats.
A cafe for parents sits inside the hall, so adults can have a coffee with the play area in view. Two party rooms host birthdays, and the hall runs themed events such as sleepovers.
