New in town, or here for a week, and the kids don't speak Czech yet? These plans work without it: shows kids follow by watching, hands-on workshops, and outings where the fun doesn't hang on the words. Most are still led in Czech, so check each listing's language line before you go.
More than 100 models built from nearly 15 million LEGO bricks fill 1,500 square meters of a shopping center. Kids walk past a full-size Ferrari F40, a 60-meter Great Wall of China and a Star Wars-inspired zone, then build their own creations in a big free-play area.
It suits kids who already build with bricks. None of the models have been shown here before.
Story of Lights fills the riverside grounds at Žluté lázně with a medieval Prague built from light. Kids walk through a gate and follow Charles IV as king, builder and emperor, past a glowing Charles Bridge, the royal crown, Gothic towers and the crown jewels, with interactive elements along the route. It suits kids who like castles and kings, and the history stays easy enough for a simple evening walk.
Pat and Mat are the Czech puppet handymen whose home repairs always go wrong, and this exhibition marks 50 years since they first appeared. The main rooms suit older kids: original film dioramas, props, and an animation workshop where you try the basics yourself. Younger kids head to the play room in the castle cellar, where a cinema also shows one of the feature films.
Cirkus Humberto is a traditional Czech family circus that tours the country with its own big top, the largest in the Czech Republic. This season's program mixes animal acts (horses, camels, zebras, a pride of Somali lions, Indian elephants and Matěj the bear) with aerial ropes and straps, juggling, a hula-hoop dancer and the Duo Warriors on the wheel of death. Mr. Chap's clown routines run between acts.
Okamžik (Moment) is the 15th-anniversary show of Cirk La Putyka, directed by Finland's Maksim Komaro. It plays with the idea of a blink: a forest is there and then it's gone, two performers suddenly become twenty.
Expect 35 performers and circus techniques used in new ways, mixed with humor, magic and poetry.
St. Martin rides a white horse across Charles Bridge, leading a costumed procession with banners and a flock of geese. Czech folk wisdom says Martin brings the first snow, so at the Old Town end he hands snow to Prague's burgomaster. Then a St. Martin's market opens on the square.
Kids who like horses, animals and history in costume get the most from it.
A yearly St. Martin's Day evening at Vyšehrad, run by the Maják Scout center. It opens with a themed game for kids in the park and a short children's prayer inside the Rotunda of St. Martin.
Then St. Martin arrives on a white horse and leads a lantern procession along the Vyšehrad walls back to the rotunda. It suits preschoolers and school-age kids who are happy with an evening walk.
A puppet show about Prague's Astronomical Clock, staged at Říše loutek, a mechanical puppet theater that has run inside the Municipal Library for a hundred years. The story follows the clock as keeper of time: Death ringing his bell, the twelve apostles, and the city's legends.
Shadow puppets, marionettes and glove puppets, some spooky and some comic, tell it through pictures and music, so kids from anywhere can follow.
A morning concert for babies and toddlers where the music turns into animals: who stomps like an elephant, who hops like a kangaroo, who hides in a shell. The Gaudioso wind quartet leads a musical carnival of animals and dancing.
It suits families who want a first taste of live classical music without a long sit. The setting is the Great Hall of the New Town Hall on Charles Square.
A traditional lantern procession run by DDM Praha 5 in Sacré Coeur park. Kids carry their own lanterns along a trail with small tasks on an autumn bug theme, then the group walks together and ends with a sweet treat.
The route works for strollers, so a younger sibling can come along. The smallest kids will need a parent's help with the tasks.
Circus Nights is a festival of new circus held in towns across Czechia and Slovakia, part of the international La Nuit du Cirque. Here the program spreads over several stages and mixes professional shows with open workshops and training for the public.
It suits kids who want to try circus skills, not only watch: juggling, balancing and acrobatics are on offer. Cirk La Putyka also brings its show Okamžik.
A solo show by performer Daniel Kvašňovský that blends new circus, clowning and physical theater. His character steps on stage set on giving the performance of his life, and it keeps going sideways, funny one moment and touching the next. The setting is a winter solstice somewhere between a circus tent and a sheepfold, with a thread of Slovak folk. Expect no red noses or giant shoes.
An open-air rink on Letná plain, with Prague Castle in view. The 43 by 20 meter sheet of ice is a manageable size for a first lap holding the barrier.
A heated tent gives kids somewhere to lace up and warm their hands, and there are skate and helmet rentals, sharpening, toilets and snacks on site. Public skating is walk-in, with no booking.
A hangar of historical aircraft, some still able to fly, opens to visitors who can walk around the planes and see them up close. The owners and pilots who keep their aircraft here run the day and are happy to chat, and in good weather some of the old planes take off for flight demonstrations. It suits kids who love planes and machines.
Libozvuky is an interactive music show from Divadlo Minor, directed by Jiří Adámek. Actors and musicians build a landscape of sound, then use light and voices to conjure a creature on stage. There are no seats: kids sit on the floor beside a long wooden walkway, and children often call out what they see and edge closer to the actors. Marek Doubrava's score won the 2015 Theatre Critics' Award.
One of Prague's bigger Christmas markets fills the square in front of St. Ludmila Church in Vinohrady, the square locals call Mírák. Wooden stalls sell glass ornaments, wooden toys, ceramic nativity scenes, sheep's wool goods and handmade jewelry, with mulled wine and hot holiday snacks on the side.
It suits a short wander with kids after dark, when the stalls are lit up.
Prague Zoo turns festive for the holiday season. Families can make an Advent wreath in the Education Center, join carols at the Christmas tree lighting in the Children's Zoo, and watch keepers hand unsold Christmas trees to the animals.
Winter suits the reindeer, camels and Amur tiger in their thick coats, and fourteen heated pavilions offer a warm break between the outdoor paths.
Crystal Garden fills the winter garden in Troja with large glass sculptures of flowers, trees and animals made by the Czech glassmaker Jiří Pačinek and his studio. Kids wander the paths spotting glass birds and blooms among the real plants, and after dark the pieces are lit up.
It suits kids who like a walk with something to find. Toddlers in strollers can come along.
Two club model railways, built at 1:45 and 1:32 scale, run trains past a replica station, villages and tunnels. Kids watch engines pull passenger and freight cars through detailed miniature scenery. It suits train fans who like spotting details, from steam engines to modern electric locomotives.
Prague's transport company, DPP, switches on the Christmas lights on its decorated fleet in the yard of the Střešovice tram depot, home of the Muzeum MHD. Historic and modern trams line up beside buses, a trolleybus and the mazací tramvaj service tram.
Kids can walk around the vehicles and pick a favorite, sing along to carols, join the countdown, then watch the lit-up parade roll out.
Prague's biggest Christmas markets fill Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square with wooden stalls of Czech crafts: wooden nativity scenes, glass and straw ornaments, gingerbread and Czech sausages.
Old Town Square's giant spruce is the centerpiece, and choirs from around the country sing on the stage. Kids who like lights and music do well here; on evenings the crowds get thick, so a stroller moves slowly.
A family walk across Prague Castle that ends in a Christmas labyrinth built by the Forman Brothers' Theatre (Divadlo bratří Formanů) and friends inside the Imperial Stables.
Start at the tree on St. George's Square, stop at the nativity scene beside St. Vitus Cathedral, then cross the Second Courtyard to the stables. Inside, kids wander an imaginary landscape that includes Johannes Kepler's astronomer's workshop.
Prague Castle opens its state rooms, usually closed to visitors, decorated for Advent. Families walk from the Matthias Gate through Plečnik's Column Hall, the Spanish Hall and the Rudolf Gallery, then on to the Throne Hall in the New Palace.
The cathedral, Golden Lane and the South Gardens open too, so it is a long day on foot. It suits school-age kids who can walk the route without a stroller.
Prague 7's yearly Saint Nicholas afternoon at the Výstaviště fairgrounds. Kids skate in the Small Sports Hall, in their own skates or rental ones. Then they head to the nearby Ateliér for a pre-Christmas craft, a photo-booth picture to take home and a small Saint Nicholas gift.
On St Nicholas Eve, wooden boats leave the Vltava and slip into the Čertovka, the narrow canal behind Kampa. Devils lurk along the banks, hurling spooky but kind tales full of fire at the passing boats. On the river you also meet an angel and St Nicholas, who rewards the good kids.
A thrill for kids who know the Mikuláš tradition. Very fearful toddlers may find the devils too much.
Mikuláš, the Czech St. Nicholas, comes to Kampa with angels and devils to hand out gifts to kids, and the neighborhood switches on its Christmas tree on the island by the Vltava. It is an open-air, local evening that suits kids who like a costumed visitor, and the tree lighting gives everyone a reason to linger.
A St. Nicholas afternoon inside a historic tram depot. Mikuláš, an angel and a devil walk among the old trams and buses and hand out small gifts, a Czech December tradition. It suits children who enjoy vehicles and are fine with a costumed devil nearby.
St. Lucy is a pre-Christmas light festival in the Baroque Troja Chateau and its garden, run by the Prague City Gallery (GHMP) with Signal Festival. Digital and light installations fill the rooms and the grounds, some built on light and rhythm, others on electromagnetic signals.
Kids walk through at their own pace after dark. It suits school-age children who are happy with a cold evening outing.
Three kings on camels lead a noisy band of drummers and trumpeters through Prague's old center, retelling the Magi's journey to Bethlehem. At the end they hand their gifts to the baby Jesus in a nativity scene.
It marks Three Kings Day, the close of Christmas, and kicks off the Three Kings Collection, a charity drive by Prague's Catholic charity. Kids who like animals and marching bands get both.
The dm bambini run is the kids' race of the Prague Marathon weekend: a short dash for toddlers and preschoolers, split by age so nobody lines up against kids twice their size.
Every runner gets a race T-shirt, a start number and a finisher's medal, the same kit the grown-ups chase on Sunday. It suits small kids who like to run and want to feel part of the big race.
Mezi Ploty is one of Prague's most popular festivals, held inside the walled grounds of Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital, where performers with disabilities share the same stages as some of the country's best-known bands.
Stages spread across the leafy grounds mix rock, pop, theater, workshops and kids' acts like Kašpárek v rohlíku. The whole site is alcohol-free, which gives it a relaxed, picnic-day feel that suits families.
Letní Letná is Prague's end-of-summer festival of contemporary circus and theater, with big tops and open-air stages spread across Letná park. Acrobats and jugglers from around the world perform on several stages, and a separate children's stage runs shows for younger kids.
Between shows, kids can join free circus and art workshops, get their faces painted, ride a hand-carved carousel or read in the Bibliobus Oskar library bus.
This landscaped garden climbs the Petřín hillside, with winding paths, old trees, two ponds and a waterfall. A renovated playground with newer play equipment sits above the pond and waterfall. A wooden church moved here from Carpathian Ruthenia in 1929 stands among the lawns. Entrances include Kinských Square, Šermířská and Na Hřebenkách streets.
The largest private LEGO collection in the world, set in the Prague branch of Museum of Bricks. About 3,000 models built from over a million bricks cover Prague landmarks, Star Wars, Harry Potter, knights and the Mole. A play corner lets visitors of any age build too, and the shop sells current and collector sets.
Říše loutek is a marionette theater founded in 1920, playing in the City Library building on Žatecká street since 1928. Its own company stages classic Czech fairy tales, such as Hansel and Gretel (Perníková chaloupka), Dášeňka and Kašpárek in Hell, with string puppets on a traditional stage.
UNIMA, the international puppetry union, was founded here in 1929. Shows are performed in Czech, so the puppets carry the story.
Holešovice Market fills the brick halls of Prague's former city slaughterhouse. The main draw is Hala 22, the city's largest covered fruit, vegetable and farmers' market, with stalls selling bread, cheese, fish, mushrooms and flowers.
Around it are street-food stands, cafés, galleries and Jatka78, a theater known for new circus. The grounds host a seasonal program of festivals and pop-ups, some aimed at families.
Kulaťák is the local name for Vítězné náměstí, the big roundabout in Dejvice, and on Saturdays the square hosts one of the largest regular farmers' markets in Prague. Czech growers and makers sell fruit, vegetables, bread, cheese, meat, fish and flowers, alongside street food stalls and a few foreign delicacies.
Some Saturdays add themed events, such as a small breweries festival, an embassies festival or Advent stalls.
Jiřák is a farmers' market on Jiřího z Poděbrad Square, where rows of stalls sell freshly baked pastries and bread, vegetables, homemade cheeses and handmade crafts under the square's trees. The stallholders are Czech producers, so this is a good place for kids to see where food comes from and help choose fruit or pastries for a picnic on the square.
A farmers' market on Náplavka, the stone embankment along the Vltava below Vyšehrad. Stalls sell seasonal fruit and vegetables, pastries, mushrooms, fresh fish, cheeses, free-range eggs and handicrafts.
It suits families who like to graze: kids can snack their way along the stalls and watch the swans at the water's edge. It is popular with locals and visitors alike, so expect a busy embankment.
A natural swimming lake cleaned without chemicals: the water runs through planted regeneration ponds instead of chlorine, which suits kids with sensitive skin. The irregular oval covers 5,570 m², with a non-swimmer section up to 1 m deep and a swimming section down to 3.25 m.
Around it are grassy lawns for spreading out, a children's playground, water play features, a snack kiosk with a wooden terrace, changing rooms and showers.
Line 41 is a heritage tram line run by DPP, Prague's transit company, with vintage tram cars on a circuit between the Střešovice depot and the Výstaviště exhibition grounds. The usual route runs past Prague Castle and Letná and crosses the Vltava on Čech Bridge.
The Střešovice end is home to the Public Transport Museum, so a ride pairs easily with a look at older trams and buses.
Founded in 1865, this company runs sightseeing boats and two restored paddle steamers, Vltava and Vyšehrad, from the Rašín Embankment pier near the Dancing House. The one-hour loop passes Charles Bridge and Prague Castle and goes through the Mánes lock twice, so kids see the boat rise and drop with the river.
Day trips sail upriver to Slapy, and a regular boat runs to Prague Zoo.
Action Park is an outdoor activity ground where the Berounka meets the Vltava, with two grass football pitches, an artificial pitch and covered play areas. Kids come for booked birthday parties and a summer day camp: human table football, giant foot darts, life-size Angry Birds, bubble football and junior paintball.
Much of its business is stag parties and company days, so it suits a booked party or camp, not a drop-in visit.
A paint-your-own-pottery studio on Vinohradská. Kids pick a blank piece from shelves of mugs, plates, money boxes and animal figures, and a staff member shows them the glazes and a few simple techniques.
The studio glazes and kiln-fires each finished piece, so mugs and plates are safe for food and drink. For babies, it makes hand and footprint keepsakes, and a small play corner keeps younger siblings busy.
The first parkour hall in the Czech Republic, built by parkour athletes themselves in 2016. Tall wooden walls and platforms run around the edges of the 504 m² hall, while boxes, bars and movable obstacles in the middle change daily. A soft foam pit lets kids practice flips onto a safe landing.
Coaches run weekly kids' classes, parent-and-child sessions, birthday parties and holiday day camps.
A six-lane bowling alley with QubicaAMF lanes inside the SK Žižkov sports center, with a restaurant and bar beside the lanes and a private room for 20. Two lanes have bumpers, so younger kids can keep the ball out of the gutter.
The whole center is nonsmoking, and it hosts kids' birthday parties with a decorated table, kids' meals, ice cream sundaes and invitations for the guests.
SmíchOFF is a large indoor climbing center in the old Škoda diesel engine factory, with two roped halls (auto-belays and ready-rigged top ropes) and two bouldering rooms, one graded by color for beginners.
Kids get their own hall, BouldříkOFF, with boulders, auto-belays, routes they can clip, a small traverse in a bunker and tunnels to explore. Gear is for rent, and a short safety briefing comes before the first climb.
A big climbing and movement center by the OC Letňany mall. Kids get their own zone: a gently angled rope wall with Jungle animal holds and auto-belays, a bouldering world with tunnels, ramparts and a slide, and Brloh, a four-level soft-play den with a ball pit and a double slide. The movement hall adds a foam pit, a trampoline and parkour obstacles.
The Pop Up! is an interactive exhibition called "Kdo jsem?" ("Who am I?"), laid out as seven themed rooms in Podolí. Each room has its own colors, sounds and scents, plus creative tasks to try, and visitors can take photos, film and rearrange the rooms as they go.
Small groups enter at intervals and walk a one-way route, so a family rarely shares a room with strangers.
Krtek's World is an amusement park on the edge of Prague, in Horní Měcholupy. A contact mini zoo has goats, pigs, sheep, geese and free-roaming peacocks. Outdoors there are trampolines, pedal cars, a ninja course and splash pools with a water slide. The indoor glasshouse adds a climbing wall, ball pools, a toboggan slide and rope frames.
Koala Café is a play center with a café attached. The main climbing frame has several tube slides and zones graded by difficulty, and a separate corner with a small slide is set up for toddlers. There is a track for pedal go-karts and ride-ons, plus giant LEGO bricks for building. Parents sit in the café with a view over the play area, and Wi-Fi is free.
An underground laser tag arena below Na Příkopě. Players suit up with a vest and blaster, get a short briefing, then play 12-minute rounds through fog, UV-painted walls and obstacles, with scores and stats after each game.
Modes range from free-for-all and red-versus-blue to secret-agent missions. Groups of 8 or more get the arena to themselves and pick the game mode.
Mercuria's Braník branch sits in the old Braník brewery complex and is billed as the largest laser tag arena in the Czech Republic. The Jungle arena (400 m²) has trees, lookouts and temples to hide in; the smaller Spaceship arena is faster. Between games there's a Pixel light-up floor game, two VR simulators and arcades (racing cars, basketball, air hockey). Parents can watch the action on screens in the bar.
An indoor laser tag center in the Lighthouse Towers office complex, with two themed arenas: Golem, the bigger one, and Ocean, an underwater set with moving lily pads, a sunken temple and a jellyfish cave. Players wear vests that track hits and distance, and get a score card after each game.
Between rounds there are arcade machines, two VR simulators and a 200-seat bar serving pizza and snacks.
The home rink of hockey club HC Hvězda Praha: a covered 58 x 28 m ice surface with seating for 300. Outside club training, the ice opens for public skating, and a weekly skating school puts beginners and stronger skaters in separate groups led by the club's youth coaches.
The JB Sport shop rents and sharpens skates, and Kanada Pizza and the HC Bar look out over the ice.
A year-round indoor ice rink where kids can skate at public sessions or learn in groups. Family on Ice sessions cap the number of families and set out play stations, with an instructor on the ice.
Family mini-hockey and pond hockey are played on small goals with no gear, and kids' skating lessons split beginners from advanced skaters.
River Rink is an outdoor ice rink by the Vltava in the Riverside Karlín quarter: a 30 x 15 m sheet of ice with a skate rental and a street-food and punch bar beside it. The rental also has helmets and skating aids for kids still finding their balance, and the operator runs children's skating courses on the ice.
In summer the space becomes an open-air zone with dance nights and yoga.
An open-air ice rink, 43 by 20 meters, set up each winter on Letná plain. Skates and helmets are for rent at the rink, and a skating school runs lessons for kids still learning to stand on the ice.
There's a snack bar, toilets, a bag check and skate sharpening. School groups also skate here on weekday mornings and early afternoons.
A 3.5-hectare garden run by Charles University's Faculty of Science. The greenhouses hold tropical and subtropical plants, including the national cactus and South African succulent collections, plus palms and cycads over 130 years old.
Outside, kids can spot a ginkgo grown like a giant bonsai, one of the first dawn redwoods planted in Europe, and a Central European flora collection started in 1904.
A marionette theater in an Art Deco hall on Žatecká street, in the historic center of world puppetry, where the puppeteers' organization UNIMA was founded in 1929. The repertoire is built on two well-known marionette operas, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute. The shows suit families and adults alike.
A public swimming complex on the Vltava riverbank with three big pools. Inside is a 50m pool under an arched roof. Outside are a 33m pool, a 50m pool open in summer, a small relaxation pool with massage jets, and a water slide that runs in the summer season. Most of the water is lane swimming, so it suits kids who already swim more than toddlers looking for splash play.
Aquapalace is a big indoor water park just outside the city, split into three halls. The Adventure Palace holds most of the slides and a winding wild-water river. The Palace of Treasures has a pirate ship, wave pool, water cannons and a toddler splash pool. The Palace of Relaxation adds whirlpools, a lazy river and a lap pool. Outside sits the country's longest slide, over 350 meters.
Boulder Bar, now signed as Jungle Holešovice, is a bouldering gym next to Výstaviště: short climbing walls over thick crash mats, so nobody needs a rope or harness. A summer rebuild added new wall profiles. Kids climb alongside an adult, and the bar keeps parents going between turns.
The gym also runs kids' climbing clubs, holiday day camps and birthday parties.
JumpPark Letňany fills an industrial hall with rows of trampolines, a foam pit, ninja courses, a warped wall, monkey bars, a battle beam and a dodgeball court. Children under 110 cm stay in Kids Jump, a separate zone with small trampolines and building blocks.
The main floor suits older kids and teens. Flips and somersaults are only allowed with a coach.
A trampoline hall of more than 400 m² where the beds run wall to wall and tilt up into the walls, so kids can bounce off them. There's a foam pit, 3D dodgeball, basketball hoops, an air track and an interactive climbing wall.
Changing rooms with showers and a café corner with tables give non-jumping parents somewhere to sit.
An indoor play center on the second floor above the Albert supermarket, with more than 30 attractions spread over 1,200 m². Kids work through a big climbing labyrinth, tube slides, a ball pit with ball cannons, trampolines and a ride-on car track.
On weekends a laser maze opens, charged separately. Parents can wait at the café bar, which serves coffee, iced coffee and pancakes.
Majaland is an indoor theme park built around Maya the Bee, spread across 9,000 square meters inside the POP Airport outlet center. Kids ride Vic's Roller Coaster, a 220-meter family coaster, among about a dozen rides, and can catch a show and meet Maya in her theater. An outdoor Super Wings area opens in the warmer months, and a bee trail with an audio guide explains how bees live.
Funpark Žirafa is a big play center on the southeast edge of Prague, beside the Čestlice shopping zone. It has more than 90 attractions: a giant multi-level climbing frame, a glowing slide, trampolines, ball pits, carousels, bumper cars, a tubing slide and a 9D cinema.
A separate corner suits crawlers and toddlers, and the restaurant and café look out over the play floor.
SuperLand fills the ground floor of the Galerie Butovice mall with 15 attractions: trampolines, a foam pit, a climbing wall, a rope park, a tubing slide, a big maze, a football arena and a volcano to climb. A separate corner suits crawlers and toddlers.
A family restaurant serves pizza, soups and a kids' menu, and six themed party houses host birthdays.
TOBOGA Fantasy fills a 6,000 m² hall at Homepark Zličín with a giant climbing frame, a four-lane megaslide that drops 8 meters over two floors, tubing and bobsled runs, a high ropes course, mega trampolines and an inflatable dragon. Children under 5 get their own fun park with trampolines, slides and a ball pool. Adults can use every attraction too, and everyone plays in socks.
A riverside leisure area on the Vltava with a grassy beach, sand courts and a pier, open as a bathing spot since 1910. The kids corner has a wading pool and playground with its own snack kiosk.
Older kids can rent paddleboards, kayaks and pedal boats, or play beach volleyball, badminton and table tennis. Bistros, a gelato stand and food stalls sit around the central square.
A riverside sports ground on the Vltava bank, built around a 70-meter boat moored at the water's edge that holds the Port 62 restaurant. There are beach volleyball courts, pétanque, and a big grass meadow for badminton, croquet, picnics and free play.
Scooters, in-line skates and jumping shoes can be rented on site, and the restaurant has a kids' corner and a children's menu.
Toulcův dvůr is an old farmstead run as a city farm and environmental education center, owned by the City of Prague. Goats, cows, horses and poultry of native Czech breeds live in paddocks and a poultry yard, part of a project to save old farm breeds.
Meadows and the Botič stream around the farm make a quiet green walk. The animals are for watching: no touching and no feeding.
A fenced playground in Thomayerovy sady park, set on flat grass by the Libeňka spring near the Vltava flood barrier.
The centerpiece is a wooden fishing boat with two slides and climbing and balance sections. Around it are a nest swing, chain swings, a rocking horse, a toddler playhouse and a bigger house with a slide and rope ramp. In warm months, a hand pump feeds a wooden water mill.
A fenced, staffed playground inside Kampa Park on Kampa Island, the strip of Malá Strana between the Vltava and the Čertovka channel. Rebuilt in 2006 with unusual architect-designed play structures, it is aimed at small children and includes equipment for kids with disabilities. There is a drinking fountain and a toilet on site. Older kids may find it tame; the riverside lawns of the park are next door.
A public playground on the summit of Petřín Hill, in park U rozhledny, the 2.5-hectare park around the Petřín Lookout Tower. The tower and the Mirror Maze stand a short walk away, and the Rose Garden spreads across the plateau next door, so a play break fits easily between sights. The funicular from Újezd climbs to the top and saves the steep walk up.
Areál Gutovka is a public sports park with free playgrounds, rope climbing frames, a skatepark, an inline skating track, minigolf and beach volleyball courts. A water play area with treated water runs in summer.
Older kids can tackle the 14-meter outdoor climbing wall, with about 130 routes, or the high rope course. In winter an ice rink opens, and a restaurant sits on the grounds.
A fenced playground in the middle of Park U Vodárny, a park of mature trees bordered by Slezská, Kladská, Korunní and U Vodárny streets.
The centerpiece is a multi-level wooden climbing frame built like a water tower. Around it sit a large inflatable trampoline built into the ground, a sandpit, swings and smaller climbers for toddlers, and a ball court for older kids.
A fenced playground beside the small pub in Parukářka, the wooded park on Holy Cross hill (vrch svatého Kříže), rebuilt in 2010. Past the summit, a steel slide built into the hillside drops kids to a second playground, and a third sits in the woods along the lower path next to two ping-pong tables. The open hilltop is good for kite flying in fall and looks out to the Žižkov TV Tower.
A fenced playground in Riegrovy sady, named for its red dragon. The dragon, rebuilt in 2026, is a rope climbing frame kids can cross in every direction, with two slides, hammocks and a rocky nook under one wing. Lower down, the Herní věž tower slide is built for older kids, with new stairs back up. Swings include one that seats eight, plus a sandpit, scooter track and a summer misting area.
Locals call it the Tramvaj playground, after the two wooden tram cars kids climb through. Around them are a big rope triple pyramid, a zip line, climbing frames with slides, and seesaws. Tall trees shade most of it and the ground is loose gravel.
There is no fence, so runners need watching. The Vozovna restaurant terrace looks onto the play area, and the Koníček playground sits just behind the building.
Ladronka park has two fenced playgrounds, one near the bus stop and a big one by the café at the restored Ladronka farmstead, whose restaurant opens an indoor kids' corner in winter. Around them spread open lawns, more than 4 km of lit in-line track, courts for volleyball and beach football, a disc golf course, and the Šiška lookout tower, a sculpture by Čestmír Suška.
The playgrounds sit in the flat middle of Folimanka park, in the valley below the Nusle Bridge, with water features beside the play equipment and a caretaker's house with a refreshment kiosk and toilets.
Right under the bridge, the Jammertal area adds a skate plaza (an ice rink in winter), ping-pong tables and a Poeziomátek box that plays Czech fairy-tale songs.
A big, varied playground on the north edge of Letná Park, set along the flat path near the Na Baště café. Kids climb oversized animal sculptures, frames and slides, and dig in the sand, while the open Letná plain next door has room for ball games and kites.
The park around it adds an in-line skating track, the skate plaza under the Metronome and a wooden carousel from the 1890s.
Children's Island is a 1.83-hectare island on the Vltava, reached by an arched footbridge from the Smíchov embankment. It holds several playgrounds split by age, with a carousel, climbing frames and sandpits, plus play equipment designed for kids with disabilities.
Older kids get an artificial-turf soccer field, a volleyball court and basketball hoops. A bronze statue of the Vltava stands at the northern tip.
Průhonice Park is a 250-hectare landscape park laid out from 1885 around a castle on the edge of Prague. Marked paths run through the rocky Botič stream valley, past large ponds, open meadows and about 1,600 kinds of native and exotic trees, including 8,000 rhododendrons.
It suits kids who are happy on a long walk. Bikes are not allowed, and visitors keep to the marked paths.
A small forest zoo by the gamekeeper's lodge in Chuchle Grove, a nature reserve above the Vltava. It belongs to the city's wildlife rescue station, so its 30-plus species are Czech animals with permanent handicaps that rule out release: fallow deer, wild boar, red deer, foxes, a lynx and an eagle owl. Around it, the grove has a nature trail, a playground and picnic spots with a fire pit.
Kunratice Forest, which locals call Kunraťák, is about 300 hectares of mixed woodland on Prague's south side, cut by the Kunratice stream and the Labuť pond. Marked trails pass the ruins of Nový Hrad castle, an old railway viaduct and several springs.
By the gamekeeper's lodge, a small zoo corner keeps fallow deer from the city's wildlife rescue station, and the woods hold two playgrounds.
A walled 86-hectare game reserve laid out in the 1500s, with three long tree-lined avenues meeting at the six-pointed Hvězda Summer Palace. Most paths run flat through beech, oak and fir woods, so it suits bikes, scooters and strollers.
There are two playgrounds and two picnic spots with fire pits, plus a traffic playground and volleyball court at the edge. In snowy winters, locals bring cross-country skis.
Prokop Valley is a nature reserve of wooded slopes, limestone cliffs and old quarries on the city's southwest edge. Paths follow the Prokopský stream past a small, cliff-ringed quarry lake (Prokopské jezírko), and small caves show in the hillsides.
The rock layers here are famous for fossils. A marked nature trail leads to the Butovice hillfort, and the Hlubočepy railway viaducts span the lower valley.
Hostivař Reservoir is the city's largest lake, ringed by a forest park. The main beach mixes lawns with a long sandy shore that slopes gently into the water.
Kids get a two-lane inflatable water slide, a big trampoline, a playground with a climbing wall, and pedal boats and paddleboards to rent. The wooded shore beyond the beach has more playgrounds, cycle paths and a rope park.
Kampa Park spreads 2.65 hectares of lawns and old trees across an island between the Vltava and the Čertovka, a narrow man-made channel. Kids can run the grass, use the playground, and spot the big wooden mill wheel of the old Grand Priory Mill on the Čertovka.
Museum Kampa's giant chair sculpture stands above the river, and Charles Bridge crosses the island's northern tip.
Petřín is a wooded hill of linked gardens rising above Malá Strana, crossed by walking paths with benches and city views. A funicular climbs from Újezd to the top, where the Petřín Lookout Tower, built in 1891 after the Eiffel Tower, and a mirror maze sit side by side. Kids also find several playgrounds, the medieval Hunger Wall and a rose garden at the summit.
Klamovka is a hillside English landscape park between Plzeňská and Podbělohorská streets, laid out by the Clam-Gallas family around their Rococo mansion. Paths wind past a Neo-Gothic gazebo from 1820, the Temple of the Night, a Rococo greenhouse, a monument to a horse named Cassel and a tiny church from 1752.
There is a playground for younger kids and a garden restaurant in the middle of the park.
Ladronka is a big open park on the Strahov-Motol slopes, built around a restored farmstead. Its main draw is a lit 4.6 km loop shared by inline skaters, cyclists, runners and strollers.
Kids get fenced playgrounds that stay open all year, and the farmstead restaurant adds an indoor play corner from October to March. Older kids also find volleyball and beach courts, disc golf and slacklines.
Grébovka is a hillside park laid out in the 1870s around an Italian Renaissance-style villa. Paths wind past a grotto, a fountain with a water cascade, a pond, pavilions and statues, down to a 1.7-hectare working vineyard with a wine gazebo and wide views over the city.
A playground sits inside the park, and the Grébovka Pavilion café keeps a replica of the original 1870s bowling alley.
Riegrovy Sady is an 11-hectare hillside park of open lawns, paths and playgrounds. The western slope looks across the city center to Prague Castle, a favorite picnic and sunset spot for locals, who call the park Riegrák.
The Bohemians and Sokol Vinohrady sports grounds sit inside the park, and the Rajská zahrada garden joins it to the north toward Žižkov.
The Šárka stream cuts a 2 km gorge through dark, hard rock here, with two narrow rocky passes and a plateau above. Trails follow the stream and climb to sunny cliff-top meadows, past the earth banks of a Slavic hillfort. Sheep and goats are brought in to graze the slopes.
In summer, an outdoor pool with a kids' wading pool and a slide opens in the valley.
Letná Park spreads across 25 hectares of lawns, mature trees and a long plane-tree avenue on the hill above the Vltava, with wide views over the Old Town and its bridges. Kids get a children's playground, room for inline skating and skateboarding, and the giant Metronome on the old Stalin monument plinth.
By the National Technical Museum, a wooden carousel from 1892 still runs, its horses covered in real horse hide.
Stromovka began in the 13th century as a royal game reserve and is now an English-style landscape park: lawns, old trees and four ponds on the Vltava floodplain. A long network of paths runs through it, good for walks, bikes and scooters.
Playgrounds are spread across the park, and the lawns are open for picnics. The Governor's Summerhouse, a Neo-Gothic summer palace, stands inside the park.
A walled monastery garden tucked behind Wenceslas Square, with rose arches over the benches, low yew hedges, fruit trees and herb beds. Kids can hunt for the sculptures and fountains, including the Boy with a Shell and the Wild Girls fountain, then head to the playground, which sits behind a wall of climbing plants. The early-Baroque pavilion and the Church of Our Lady of the Snows frame the lawns.
A walled former convent garden, counted as the oldest partly preserved garden in the city, with shady paths, old trees and a small pond. Several peacocks roam the grounds.
Kids can peer into the Chapel of St. Elijah, built to look like a stalactite cave, climb the wide stairs to a terrace with rose pergolas and a painted 17th-century sundial, and burn off energy at the playground.
Small boats leave from Judita, a medieval underground pier beside Charles Bridge, and cruise the Vltava and the Čertovka, the narrow mill channel that splits Kampa Island from Malá Strana. Kids pass under the bridge arches and past an old waterwheel.
Commentary comes on headphones in 19 languages, and the ticket includes the Charles Bridge Museum at the pier. In winter the boats are enclosed and heated.
Slovanka is a long-running boat rental on Slovanský ostrov, the Vltava island that holds Žofín Palace. Families take out wooden rowing boats, pedal boats for up to six, or the swan-shaped pedal boat, with Charles Bridge and Prague Castle in view from the water.
Life jackets for children and non-swimmers are on hand, and the dock kiosk sells drinks and snacks. Evening trips come with a kerosene lantern.
DinoPark Harfa sits on the roof of the Galerie Harfa shopping mall, next to the O2 Arena in Vysočany. More than 80 dinosaur models line the paths, many of them moving and making sounds, plus Kvído, a robot baby stegosaurus that walks the park with a ranger.
Kids can dig for bones in the paleontology playground, try the VR DinoRiders, stand up to the DinoHurricane storm simulator and explore the paleontologist's cabinet.
A 216-meter TV tower with giant crawling babies, fiberglass sculptures by artist David Černý, climbing its steel shafts. Fast elevators run to an observation deck at 93 meters with three cabins: one on the world's great towers, one with bubble chairs that play street sounds from below, and one showing Czech art.
The garden at the base has a minigolf course and, in winter, an ice rink.
Mořský svět is the largest saltwater aquarium in the Czech Republic, with more than 60 tanks and over 360 species. Kids can watch sharks, jellyfish and an octopus, walk through a coral cave and stand by the 100,000-liter main tank. The first floor reopened in 2026 with new Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific reef tanks.
Feeding sessions run every week, and the last Friday of each month brings an evening tour.
A 25-hectare hillside garden in Troja with a Japanese garden, a lake and wetland, prairie and forest plantings, and St. Clare's Vineyard.
The highlight for kids is the Fata Morgana greenhouse: a winding path through desert plants, a lowland rainforest with a 6-meter waterfall and a 4-meter-deep pond, a tunnel cut into the rock to tropical fish aquariums, and a cool zone of table-top mountain plants.
Petřín Lookout Tower is a steel lattice tower built in 1891 as a one-fifth copy of the Eiffel Tower. Kids climb 299 wooden steps to the top cabin at 51 meters, with a gallery and binoculars at 20 meters to break up the climb. On a clear day the view takes in the whole city and much of Bohemia. The basement holds a small exhibition on the hill's history.
A cable railway that climbs Petřín Hill from Újezd in Malá Strana, with a middle stop at Nebozízek and the top station by the lookout tower, the mirror maze and the rose garden. The ride takes about three minutes up a steep wooded slope, with views to Prague Castle.
New glass-heavy cars arrived in 2026: when they pass halfway, one winks and the other changes color.
Charles Bridge is a 516-meter stone footbridge over the Vltava, linking the Old Town to Malá Strana. Thirty statues and statue groups of saints line its railings, and fortified towers stand at each end.
No cars have crossed since 1965, so kids can walk the whole span, and a stone staircase near the Malá Strana end leads down to Kampa.
The largest castle complex in the world spreads across 45 hectares of courtyards, palaces and gardens on the hill above the Vltava. Kids can walk the small, colorful houses of Golden Lane, climb the St Vitus Cathedral tower, and see the Old Royal Palace and St George's Basilica.
Uniformed guards stand at the gates, and the changing of the guard draws a crowd.
Prague Zoo spreads over 58 hectares of hillside in Troja, with 15 pavilions and close to 700 species. Elephant Valley holds the zoo's herd, and the Ball's Pyramid exhibit shows Lord Howe Island stick insects found nowhere else in continental Europe.
At the Children's Zoo farm, kids can walk into the sheep enclosure and hand-feed them, then visit the pond, play area and children's tram.
An interactive museum of Karel Zeman, the Czech filmmaker whose trick effects made Journey to the Beginning of Time and The Fabulous Baron Munchausen famous. The rooms are built as film sets, and kids are invited in: climb onto a flying machine, ride Baron Munchausen's winged horses, or steer the submarine from Invention for Destruction. Each set explains the trick behind the scene, and photos and videos are encouraged.
More than 150 interactive optical illusions and large trick paintings fill this museum on the first floor of the Myšák Gallery, a short walk from Wenceslas Square.
Kids shrink and grow in a magic room, walk up a ceiling, get fired from a cannon, and ride off in a dinosaur's talons. Every exhibit is set up for photos, so bring a charged phone.
A big museum on farming and food in a historic building in Letná. The basement tractor hall shows more than twenty tractors built between 1917 and 1953, with pedal tractors and a track for small kids and a driving simulator for older ones.
Upstairs are fishing, gamekeeping and food exhibitions, farm-animal specimens led by César the bull, and a rooftop garden with beehives, crop beds and a view across the city.
A wooden pavilion shaped like an old Gothic city gate, built for the 1891 Jubilee Exhibition and moved to Petřín Hill the next year. Kids wind through a maze of 35 mirrors to a large painted diorama of Prague's 1648 fight against the Swedes on Charles Bridge, then end in the Hall of Laughter, where warped mirrors stretch and squash them. The Petřín Lookout Tower stands a short walk away.
Two basement floors of model railways, over 600 m². The largest layout covers six Czech regions in miniature, with Karlštejn castle, the Karlovy Vary colonnade and the Pilsen main station, and 80 to 90 trains, trams and cable cars running at once. Interactive buttons fell a tree or start a circus show.
The ticket also covers train simulators, VR, RC cars, a slot-car track, LEGO and a play area.
A public astronomy observatory from 1928 on Petřín hill, built against the medieval Hunger Wall. Its three domes hold telescopes, including a historic Zeiss double astrograph in the main dome. On clear days visitors look at the sun and sunspots; after dark, the moon, planets and deep-sky objects. Inside there is a permanent astronomy exhibition, and the Astrobistro café sits on the ground floor.
The planetarium sits at the edge of Stromovka park, under a 23.5-meter dome that recently became Europe's first LED dome, lit by 45 million diodes. Shows fill the whole dome: trips through the galaxy, the night sky, coral reefs and the Czech countryside, plus fairy-tale programs for the youngest viewers.
Before the show, kids can explore the foyer's exhibition zones and its giant LED wall.
An indoor illusion museum a short walk from Wenceslas Square, with more than 50 hands-on exhibits about how eyes and brains get fooled. Kids grow and shrink in the Ames Room, lie on a bed of 1,209 nails, cast colored shadows in the RGB Room and dance in a mirrored disco room that seems to go on forever. Cameras are welcome in every room, so expect plenty of photos.
The Public Transport Museum fills the Střešovice tram depot, built in 1909 and now a protected technical monument, with more than 40 historic vehicles: horse-drawn and electric trams, buses and trolleybuses. Kids can walk right up to the cars.
Around them are scale models of vehicles that no longer survive, old tickets, route maps and photos, and archive film of the city's early transit. A good pick for kids who love trams.
A private LEGO museum with about 3,000 models built from more than a million bricks, spread over 20 themed displays. Kids can spot LEGO versions of Charles Bridge, the Astronomical Clock and the National Theatre, plus Star Wars, Harry Potter, knights and trains, and learn that the first LEGO toys were wooden.
A building corner lets them make their own, and the shop stocks hard-to-find sets and minifigures.
The Historical Building at the top of Wenceslas Square holds the natural history halls: a fin whale skeleton, life-size models of prehistoric animals, fluorescent minerals and meteorites, and the domed Pantheon.
An underground passage leads to the New Building and its hands-on Children's Museum, where kids explore nature and invention through interactive exhibits and games. Older kids can add the 20th-century history galleries.
One of the country's largest museum buildings, with 16 permanent exhibitions over seven floors. The transportation hall is the headline: early cars, motorcycles, locomotives and dozens of aircraft hung from the ceiling, including a 1945 Spitfire.
A guided tour leads through 490 meters of model ore and coal mine, with original lamps and mining sounds. There is also a Merkur construction-set playroom, a TV studio, astronomy and chemistry.
New in town, or here for a week, and the kids don't speak Czech yet? These plans work without it: shows kids follow by watching, hands-on workshops, and outings where the fun doesn't hang on the words. Most are still led in Czech, so check each listing's language line before you go.
More than 100 models built from nearly 15 million LEGO bricks fill 1,500 square meters of a shopping center. Kids walk past a full-size Ferrari F40, a 60-meter Great Wall of China and a Star Wars-inspired zone, then build their own creations in a big free-play area.
It suits kids who already build with bricks. None of the models have been shown here before.
Story of Lights fills the riverside grounds at Žluté lázně with a medieval Prague built from light. Kids walk through a gate and follow Charles IV as king, builder and emperor, past a glowing Charles Bridge, the royal crown, Gothic towers and the crown jewels, with interactive elements along the route. It suits kids who like castles and kings, and the history stays easy enough for a simple evening walk.
Pat and Mat are the Czech puppet handymen whose home repairs always go wrong, and this exhibition marks 50 years since they first appeared. The main rooms suit older kids: original film dioramas, props, and an animation workshop where you try the basics yourself. Younger kids head to the play room in the castle cellar, where a cinema also shows one of the feature films.
Cirkus Humberto is a traditional Czech family circus that tours the country with its own big top, the largest in the Czech Republic. This season's program mixes animal acts (horses, camels, zebras, a pride of Somali lions, Indian elephants and Matěj the bear) with aerial ropes and straps, juggling, a hula-hoop dancer and the Duo Warriors on the wheel of death. Mr. Chap's clown routines run between acts.
Okamžik (Moment) is the 15th-anniversary show of Cirk La Putyka, directed by Finland's Maksim Komaro. It plays with the idea of a blink: a forest is there and then it's gone, two performers suddenly become twenty.
Expect 35 performers and circus techniques used in new ways, mixed with humor, magic and poetry.
St. Martin rides a white horse across Charles Bridge, leading a costumed procession with banners and a flock of geese. Czech folk wisdom says Martin brings the first snow, so at the Old Town end he hands snow to Prague's burgomaster. Then a St. Martin's market opens on the square.
Kids who like horses, animals and history in costume get the most from it.
A yearly St. Martin's Day evening at Vyšehrad, run by the Maják Scout center. It opens with a themed game for kids in the park and a short children's prayer inside the Rotunda of St. Martin.
Then St. Martin arrives on a white horse and leads a lantern procession along the Vyšehrad walls back to the rotunda. It suits preschoolers and school-age kids who are happy with an evening walk.
A puppet show about Prague's Astronomical Clock, staged at Říše loutek, a mechanical puppet theater that has run inside the Municipal Library for a hundred years. The story follows the clock as keeper of time: Death ringing his bell, the twelve apostles, and the city's legends.
Shadow puppets, marionettes and glove puppets, some spooky and some comic, tell it through pictures and music, so kids from anywhere can follow.
A morning concert for babies and toddlers where the music turns into animals: who stomps like an elephant, who hops like a kangaroo, who hides in a shell. The Gaudioso wind quartet leads a musical carnival of animals and dancing.
It suits families who want a first taste of live classical music without a long sit. The setting is the Great Hall of the New Town Hall on Charles Square.
A traditional lantern procession run by DDM Praha 5 in Sacré Coeur park. Kids carry their own lanterns along a trail with small tasks on an autumn bug theme, then the group walks together and ends with a sweet treat.
The route works for strollers, so a younger sibling can come along. The smallest kids will need a parent's help with the tasks.
Circus Nights is a festival of new circus held in towns across Czechia and Slovakia, part of the international La Nuit du Cirque. Here the program spreads over several stages and mixes professional shows with open workshops and training for the public.
It suits kids who want to try circus skills, not only watch: juggling, balancing and acrobatics are on offer. Cirk La Putyka also brings its show Okamžik.
A solo show by performer Daniel Kvašňovský that blends new circus, clowning and physical theater. His character steps on stage set on giving the performance of his life, and it keeps going sideways, funny one moment and touching the next. The setting is a winter solstice somewhere between a circus tent and a sheepfold, with a thread of Slovak folk. Expect no red noses or giant shoes.
An open-air rink on Letná plain, with Prague Castle in view. The 43 by 20 meter sheet of ice is a manageable size for a first lap holding the barrier.
A heated tent gives kids somewhere to lace up and warm their hands, and there are skate and helmet rentals, sharpening, toilets and snacks on site. Public skating is walk-in, with no booking.
A hangar of historical aircraft, some still able to fly, opens to visitors who can walk around the planes and see them up close. The owners and pilots who keep their aircraft here run the day and are happy to chat, and in good weather some of the old planes take off for flight demonstrations. It suits kids who love planes and machines.
Libozvuky is an interactive music show from Divadlo Minor, directed by Jiří Adámek. Actors and musicians build a landscape of sound, then use light and voices to conjure a creature on stage. There are no seats: kids sit on the floor beside a long wooden walkway, and children often call out what they see and edge closer to the actors. Marek Doubrava's score won the 2015 Theatre Critics' Award.
One of Prague's bigger Christmas markets fills the square in front of St. Ludmila Church in Vinohrady, the square locals call Mírák. Wooden stalls sell glass ornaments, wooden toys, ceramic nativity scenes, sheep's wool goods and handmade jewelry, with mulled wine and hot holiday snacks on the side.
It suits a short wander with kids after dark, when the stalls are lit up.
Prague Zoo turns festive for the holiday season. Families can make an Advent wreath in the Education Center, join carols at the Christmas tree lighting in the Children's Zoo, and watch keepers hand unsold Christmas trees to the animals.
Winter suits the reindeer, camels and Amur tiger in their thick coats, and fourteen heated pavilions offer a warm break between the outdoor paths.
Crystal Garden fills the winter garden in Troja with large glass sculptures of flowers, trees and animals made by the Czech glassmaker Jiří Pačinek and his studio. Kids wander the paths spotting glass birds and blooms among the real plants, and after dark the pieces are lit up.
It suits kids who like a walk with something to find. Toddlers in strollers can come along.
Two club model railways, built at 1:45 and 1:32 scale, run trains past a replica station, villages and tunnels. Kids watch engines pull passenger and freight cars through detailed miniature scenery. It suits train fans who like spotting details, from steam engines to modern electric locomotives.
Prague's transport company, DPP, switches on the Christmas lights on its decorated fleet in the yard of the Střešovice tram depot, home of the Muzeum MHD. Historic and modern trams line up beside buses, a trolleybus and the mazací tramvaj service tram.
Kids can walk around the vehicles and pick a favorite, sing along to carols, join the countdown, then watch the lit-up parade roll out.
Prague's biggest Christmas markets fill Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square with wooden stalls of Czech crafts: wooden nativity scenes, glass and straw ornaments, gingerbread and Czech sausages.
Old Town Square's giant spruce is the centerpiece, and choirs from around the country sing on the stage. Kids who like lights and music do well here; on evenings the crowds get thick, so a stroller moves slowly.
A family walk across Prague Castle that ends in a Christmas labyrinth built by the Forman Brothers' Theatre (Divadlo bratří Formanů) and friends inside the Imperial Stables.
Start at the tree on St. George's Square, stop at the nativity scene beside St. Vitus Cathedral, then cross the Second Courtyard to the stables. Inside, kids wander an imaginary landscape that includes Johannes Kepler's astronomer's workshop.
Prague Castle opens its state rooms, usually closed to visitors, decorated for Advent. Families walk from the Matthias Gate through Plečnik's Column Hall, the Spanish Hall and the Rudolf Gallery, then on to the Throne Hall in the New Palace.
The cathedral, Golden Lane and the South Gardens open too, so it is a long day on foot. It suits school-age kids who can walk the route without a stroller.
Prague 7's yearly Saint Nicholas afternoon at the Výstaviště fairgrounds. Kids skate in the Small Sports Hall, in their own skates or rental ones. Then they head to the nearby Ateliér for a pre-Christmas craft, a photo-booth picture to take home and a small Saint Nicholas gift.
On St Nicholas Eve, wooden boats leave the Vltava and slip into the Čertovka, the narrow canal behind Kampa. Devils lurk along the banks, hurling spooky but kind tales full of fire at the passing boats. On the river you also meet an angel and St Nicholas, who rewards the good kids.
A thrill for kids who know the Mikuláš tradition. Very fearful toddlers may find the devils too much.
Mikuláš, the Czech St. Nicholas, comes to Kampa with angels and devils to hand out gifts to kids, and the neighborhood switches on its Christmas tree on the island by the Vltava. It is an open-air, local evening that suits kids who like a costumed visitor, and the tree lighting gives everyone a reason to linger.
A St. Nicholas afternoon inside a historic tram depot. Mikuláš, an angel and a devil walk among the old trams and buses and hand out small gifts, a Czech December tradition. It suits children who enjoy vehicles and are fine with a costumed devil nearby.
St. Lucy is a pre-Christmas light festival in the Baroque Troja Chateau and its garden, run by the Prague City Gallery (GHMP) with Signal Festival. Digital and light installations fill the rooms and the grounds, some built on light and rhythm, others on electromagnetic signals.
Kids walk through at their own pace after dark. It suits school-age children who are happy with a cold evening outing.
Three kings on camels lead a noisy band of drummers and trumpeters through Prague's old center, retelling the Magi's journey to Bethlehem. At the end they hand their gifts to the baby Jesus in a nativity scene.
It marks Three Kings Day, the close of Christmas, and kicks off the Three Kings Collection, a charity drive by Prague's Catholic charity. Kids who like animals and marching bands get both.
The dm bambini run is the kids' race of the Prague Marathon weekend: a short dash for toddlers and preschoolers, split by age so nobody lines up against kids twice their size.
Every runner gets a race T-shirt, a start number and a finisher's medal, the same kit the grown-ups chase on Sunday. It suits small kids who like to run and want to feel part of the big race.
Mezi Ploty is one of Prague's most popular festivals, held inside the walled grounds of Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital, where performers with disabilities share the same stages as some of the country's best-known bands.
Stages spread across the leafy grounds mix rock, pop, theater, workshops and kids' acts like Kašpárek v rohlíku. The whole site is alcohol-free, which gives it a relaxed, picnic-day feel that suits families.
Letní Letná is Prague's end-of-summer festival of contemporary circus and theater, with big tops and open-air stages spread across Letná park. Acrobats and jugglers from around the world perform on several stages, and a separate children's stage runs shows for younger kids.
Between shows, kids can join free circus and art workshops, get their faces painted, ride a hand-carved carousel or read in the Bibliobus Oskar library bus.
This landscaped garden climbs the Petřín hillside, with winding paths, old trees, two ponds and a waterfall. A renovated playground with newer play equipment sits above the pond and waterfall. A wooden church moved here from Carpathian Ruthenia in 1929 stands among the lawns. Entrances include Kinských Square, Šermířská and Na Hřebenkách streets.
The largest private LEGO collection in the world, set in the Prague branch of Museum of Bricks. About 3,000 models built from over a million bricks cover Prague landmarks, Star Wars, Harry Potter, knights and the Mole. A play corner lets visitors of any age build too, and the shop sells current and collector sets.
Říše loutek is a marionette theater founded in 1920, playing in the City Library building on Žatecká street since 1928. Its own company stages classic Czech fairy tales, such as Hansel and Gretel (Perníková chaloupka), Dášeňka and Kašpárek in Hell, with string puppets on a traditional stage.
UNIMA, the international puppetry union, was founded here in 1929. Shows are performed in Czech, so the puppets carry the story.
Holešovice Market fills the brick halls of Prague's former city slaughterhouse. The main draw is Hala 22, the city's largest covered fruit, vegetable and farmers' market, with stalls selling bread, cheese, fish, mushrooms and flowers.
Around it are street-food stands, cafés, galleries and Jatka78, a theater known for new circus. The grounds host a seasonal program of festivals and pop-ups, some aimed at families.
Kulaťák is the local name for Vítězné náměstí, the big roundabout in Dejvice, and on Saturdays the square hosts one of the largest regular farmers' markets in Prague. Czech growers and makers sell fruit, vegetables, bread, cheese, meat, fish and flowers, alongside street food stalls and a few foreign delicacies.
Some Saturdays add themed events, such as a small breweries festival, an embassies festival or Advent stalls.
Jiřák is a farmers' market on Jiřího z Poděbrad Square, where rows of stalls sell freshly baked pastries and bread, vegetables, homemade cheeses and handmade crafts under the square's trees. The stallholders are Czech producers, so this is a good place for kids to see where food comes from and help choose fruit or pastries for a picnic on the square.
A farmers' market on Náplavka, the stone embankment along the Vltava below Vyšehrad. Stalls sell seasonal fruit and vegetables, pastries, mushrooms, fresh fish, cheeses, free-range eggs and handicrafts.
It suits families who like to graze: kids can snack their way along the stalls and watch the swans at the water's edge. It is popular with locals and visitors alike, so expect a busy embankment.
A natural swimming lake cleaned without chemicals: the water runs through planted regeneration ponds instead of chlorine, which suits kids with sensitive skin. The irregular oval covers 5,570 m², with a non-swimmer section up to 1 m deep and a swimming section down to 3.25 m.
Around it are grassy lawns for spreading out, a children's playground, water play features, a snack kiosk with a wooden terrace, changing rooms and showers.
Line 41 is a heritage tram line run by DPP, Prague's transit company, with vintage tram cars on a circuit between the Střešovice depot and the Výstaviště exhibition grounds. The usual route runs past Prague Castle and Letná and crosses the Vltava on Čech Bridge.
The Střešovice end is home to the Public Transport Museum, so a ride pairs easily with a look at older trams and buses.
Founded in 1865, this company runs sightseeing boats and two restored paddle steamers, Vltava and Vyšehrad, from the Rašín Embankment pier near the Dancing House. The one-hour loop passes Charles Bridge and Prague Castle and goes through the Mánes lock twice, so kids see the boat rise and drop with the river.
Day trips sail upriver to Slapy, and a regular boat runs to Prague Zoo.
Action Park is an outdoor activity ground where the Berounka meets the Vltava, with two grass football pitches, an artificial pitch and covered play areas. Kids come for booked birthday parties and a summer day camp: human table football, giant foot darts, life-size Angry Birds, bubble football and junior paintball.
Much of its business is stag parties and company days, so it suits a booked party or camp, not a drop-in visit.
A paint-your-own-pottery studio on Vinohradská. Kids pick a blank piece from shelves of mugs, plates, money boxes and animal figures, and a staff member shows them the glazes and a few simple techniques.
The studio glazes and kiln-fires each finished piece, so mugs and plates are safe for food and drink. For babies, it makes hand and footprint keepsakes, and a small play corner keeps younger siblings busy.
The first parkour hall in the Czech Republic, built by parkour athletes themselves in 2016. Tall wooden walls and platforms run around the edges of the 504 m² hall, while boxes, bars and movable obstacles in the middle change daily. A soft foam pit lets kids practice flips onto a safe landing.
Coaches run weekly kids' classes, parent-and-child sessions, birthday parties and holiday day camps.
A six-lane bowling alley with QubicaAMF lanes inside the SK Žižkov sports center, with a restaurant and bar beside the lanes and a private room for 20. Two lanes have bumpers, so younger kids can keep the ball out of the gutter.
The whole center is nonsmoking, and it hosts kids' birthday parties with a decorated table, kids' meals, ice cream sundaes and invitations for the guests.
SmíchOFF is a large indoor climbing center in the old Škoda diesel engine factory, with two roped halls (auto-belays and ready-rigged top ropes) and two bouldering rooms, one graded by color for beginners.
Kids get their own hall, BouldříkOFF, with boulders, auto-belays, routes they can clip, a small traverse in a bunker and tunnels to explore. Gear is for rent, and a short safety briefing comes before the first climb.
A big climbing and movement center by the OC Letňany mall. Kids get their own zone: a gently angled rope wall with Jungle animal holds and auto-belays, a bouldering world with tunnels, ramparts and a slide, and Brloh, a four-level soft-play den with a ball pit and a double slide. The movement hall adds a foam pit, a trampoline and parkour obstacles.
The Pop Up! is an interactive exhibition called "Kdo jsem?" ("Who am I?"), laid out as seven themed rooms in Podolí. Each room has its own colors, sounds and scents, plus creative tasks to try, and visitors can take photos, film and rearrange the rooms as they go.
Small groups enter at intervals and walk a one-way route, so a family rarely shares a room with strangers.
Krtek's World is an amusement park on the edge of Prague, in Horní Měcholupy. A contact mini zoo has goats, pigs, sheep, geese and free-roaming peacocks. Outdoors there are trampolines, pedal cars, a ninja course and splash pools with a water slide. The indoor glasshouse adds a climbing wall, ball pools, a toboggan slide and rope frames.
Koala Café is a play center with a café attached. The main climbing frame has several tube slides and zones graded by difficulty, and a separate corner with a small slide is set up for toddlers. There is a track for pedal go-karts and ride-ons, plus giant LEGO bricks for building. Parents sit in the café with a view over the play area, and Wi-Fi is free.
An underground laser tag arena below Na Příkopě. Players suit up with a vest and blaster, get a short briefing, then play 12-minute rounds through fog, UV-painted walls and obstacles, with scores and stats after each game.
Modes range from free-for-all and red-versus-blue to secret-agent missions. Groups of 8 or more get the arena to themselves and pick the game mode.
Mercuria's Braník branch sits in the old Braník brewery complex and is billed as the largest laser tag arena in the Czech Republic. The Jungle arena (400 m²) has trees, lookouts and temples to hide in; the smaller Spaceship arena is faster. Between games there's a Pixel light-up floor game, two VR simulators and arcades (racing cars, basketball, air hockey). Parents can watch the action on screens in the bar.
An indoor laser tag center in the Lighthouse Towers office complex, with two themed arenas: Golem, the bigger one, and Ocean, an underwater set with moving lily pads, a sunken temple and a jellyfish cave. Players wear vests that track hits and distance, and get a score card after each game.
Between rounds there are arcade machines, two VR simulators and a 200-seat bar serving pizza and snacks.
The home rink of hockey club HC Hvězda Praha: a covered 58 x 28 m ice surface with seating for 300. Outside club training, the ice opens for public skating, and a weekly skating school puts beginners and stronger skaters in separate groups led by the club's youth coaches.
The JB Sport shop rents and sharpens skates, and Kanada Pizza and the HC Bar look out over the ice.
A year-round indoor ice rink where kids can skate at public sessions or learn in groups. Family on Ice sessions cap the number of families and set out play stations, with an instructor on the ice.
Family mini-hockey and pond hockey are played on small goals with no gear, and kids' skating lessons split beginners from advanced skaters.
River Rink is an outdoor ice rink by the Vltava in the Riverside Karlín quarter: a 30 x 15 m sheet of ice with a skate rental and a street-food and punch bar beside it. The rental also has helmets and skating aids for kids still finding their balance, and the operator runs children's skating courses on the ice.
In summer the space becomes an open-air zone with dance nights and yoga.
An open-air ice rink, 43 by 20 meters, set up each winter on Letná plain. Skates and helmets are for rent at the rink, and a skating school runs lessons for kids still learning to stand on the ice.
There's a snack bar, toilets, a bag check and skate sharpening. School groups also skate here on weekday mornings and early afternoons.
A 3.5-hectare garden run by Charles University's Faculty of Science. The greenhouses hold tropical and subtropical plants, including the national cactus and South African succulent collections, plus palms and cycads over 130 years old.
Outside, kids can spot a ginkgo grown like a giant bonsai, one of the first dawn redwoods planted in Europe, and a Central European flora collection started in 1904.
A marionette theater in an Art Deco hall on Žatecká street, in the historic center of world puppetry, where the puppeteers' organization UNIMA was founded in 1929. The repertoire is built on two well-known marionette operas, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute. The shows suit families and adults alike.
A public swimming complex on the Vltava riverbank with three big pools. Inside is a 50m pool under an arched roof. Outside are a 33m pool, a 50m pool open in summer, a small relaxation pool with massage jets, and a water slide that runs in the summer season. Most of the water is lane swimming, so it suits kids who already swim more than toddlers looking for splash play.
Aquapalace is a big indoor water park just outside the city, split into three halls. The Adventure Palace holds most of the slides and a winding wild-water river. The Palace of Treasures has a pirate ship, wave pool, water cannons and a toddler splash pool. The Palace of Relaxation adds whirlpools, a lazy river and a lap pool. Outside sits the country's longest slide, over 350 meters.
Boulder Bar, now signed as Jungle Holešovice, is a bouldering gym next to Výstaviště: short climbing walls over thick crash mats, so nobody needs a rope or harness. A summer rebuild added new wall profiles. Kids climb alongside an adult, and the bar keeps parents going between turns.
The gym also runs kids' climbing clubs, holiday day camps and birthday parties.
JumpPark Letňany fills an industrial hall with rows of trampolines, a foam pit, ninja courses, a warped wall, monkey bars, a battle beam and a dodgeball court. Children under 110 cm stay in Kids Jump, a separate zone with small trampolines and building blocks.
The main floor suits older kids and teens. Flips and somersaults are only allowed with a coach.
A trampoline hall of more than 400 m² where the beds run wall to wall and tilt up into the walls, so kids can bounce off them. There's a foam pit, 3D dodgeball, basketball hoops, an air track and an interactive climbing wall.
Changing rooms with showers and a café corner with tables give non-jumping parents somewhere to sit.
An indoor play center on the second floor above the Albert supermarket, with more than 30 attractions spread over 1,200 m². Kids work through a big climbing labyrinth, tube slides, a ball pit with ball cannons, trampolines and a ride-on car track.
On weekends a laser maze opens, charged separately. Parents can wait at the café bar, which serves coffee, iced coffee and pancakes.
Majaland is an indoor theme park built around Maya the Bee, spread across 9,000 square meters inside the POP Airport outlet center. Kids ride Vic's Roller Coaster, a 220-meter family coaster, among about a dozen rides, and can catch a show and meet Maya in her theater. An outdoor Super Wings area opens in the warmer months, and a bee trail with an audio guide explains how bees live.
Funpark Žirafa is a big play center on the southeast edge of Prague, beside the Čestlice shopping zone. It has more than 90 attractions: a giant multi-level climbing frame, a glowing slide, trampolines, ball pits, carousels, bumper cars, a tubing slide and a 9D cinema.
A separate corner suits crawlers and toddlers, and the restaurant and café look out over the play floor.
SuperLand fills the ground floor of the Galerie Butovice mall with 15 attractions: trampolines, a foam pit, a climbing wall, a rope park, a tubing slide, a big maze, a football arena and a volcano to climb. A separate corner suits crawlers and toddlers.
A family restaurant serves pizza, soups and a kids' menu, and six themed party houses host birthdays.
TOBOGA Fantasy fills a 6,000 m² hall at Homepark Zličín with a giant climbing frame, a four-lane megaslide that drops 8 meters over two floors, tubing and bobsled runs, a high ropes course, mega trampolines and an inflatable dragon. Children under 5 get their own fun park with trampolines, slides and a ball pool. Adults can use every attraction too, and everyone plays in socks.
A riverside leisure area on the Vltava with a grassy beach, sand courts and a pier, open as a bathing spot since 1910. The kids corner has a wading pool and playground with its own snack kiosk.
Older kids can rent paddleboards, kayaks and pedal boats, or play beach volleyball, badminton and table tennis. Bistros, a gelato stand and food stalls sit around the central square.
A riverside sports ground on the Vltava bank, built around a 70-meter boat moored at the water's edge that holds the Port 62 restaurant. There are beach volleyball courts, pétanque, and a big grass meadow for badminton, croquet, picnics and free play.
Scooters, in-line skates and jumping shoes can be rented on site, and the restaurant has a kids' corner and a children's menu.
Toulcův dvůr is an old farmstead run as a city farm and environmental education center, owned by the City of Prague. Goats, cows, horses and poultry of native Czech breeds live in paddocks and a poultry yard, part of a project to save old farm breeds.
Meadows and the Botič stream around the farm make a quiet green walk. The animals are for watching: no touching and no feeding.
A fenced playground in Thomayerovy sady park, set on flat grass by the Libeňka spring near the Vltava flood barrier.
The centerpiece is a wooden fishing boat with two slides and climbing and balance sections. Around it are a nest swing, chain swings, a rocking horse, a toddler playhouse and a bigger house with a slide and rope ramp. In warm months, a hand pump feeds a wooden water mill.
A fenced, staffed playground inside Kampa Park on Kampa Island, the strip of Malá Strana between the Vltava and the Čertovka channel. Rebuilt in 2006 with unusual architect-designed play structures, it is aimed at small children and includes equipment for kids with disabilities. There is a drinking fountain and a toilet on site. Older kids may find it tame; the riverside lawns of the park are next door.
A public playground on the summit of Petřín Hill, in park U rozhledny, the 2.5-hectare park around the Petřín Lookout Tower. The tower and the Mirror Maze stand a short walk away, and the Rose Garden spreads across the plateau next door, so a play break fits easily between sights. The funicular from Újezd climbs to the top and saves the steep walk up.
Areál Gutovka is a public sports park with free playgrounds, rope climbing frames, a skatepark, an inline skating track, minigolf and beach volleyball courts. A water play area with treated water runs in summer.
Older kids can tackle the 14-meter outdoor climbing wall, with about 130 routes, or the high rope course. In winter an ice rink opens, and a restaurant sits on the grounds.
A fenced playground in the middle of Park U Vodárny, a park of mature trees bordered by Slezská, Kladská, Korunní and U Vodárny streets.
The centerpiece is a multi-level wooden climbing frame built like a water tower. Around it sit a large inflatable trampoline built into the ground, a sandpit, swings and smaller climbers for toddlers, and a ball court for older kids.
A fenced playground beside the small pub in Parukářka, the wooded park on Holy Cross hill (vrch svatého Kříže), rebuilt in 2010. Past the summit, a steel slide built into the hillside drops kids to a second playground, and a third sits in the woods along the lower path next to two ping-pong tables. The open hilltop is good for kite flying in fall and looks out to the Žižkov TV Tower.
A fenced playground in Riegrovy sady, named for its red dragon. The dragon, rebuilt in 2026, is a rope climbing frame kids can cross in every direction, with two slides, hammocks and a rocky nook under one wing. Lower down, the Herní věž tower slide is built for older kids, with new stairs back up. Swings include one that seats eight, plus a sandpit, scooter track and a summer misting area.
Locals call it the Tramvaj playground, after the two wooden tram cars kids climb through. Around them are a big rope triple pyramid, a zip line, climbing frames with slides, and seesaws. Tall trees shade most of it and the ground is loose gravel.
There is no fence, so runners need watching. The Vozovna restaurant terrace looks onto the play area, and the Koníček playground sits just behind the building.
Ladronka park has two fenced playgrounds, one near the bus stop and a big one by the café at the restored Ladronka farmstead, whose restaurant opens an indoor kids' corner in winter. Around them spread open lawns, more than 4 km of lit in-line track, courts for volleyball and beach football, a disc golf course, and the Šiška lookout tower, a sculpture by Čestmír Suška.
The playgrounds sit in the flat middle of Folimanka park, in the valley below the Nusle Bridge, with water features beside the play equipment and a caretaker's house with a refreshment kiosk and toilets.
Right under the bridge, the Jammertal area adds a skate plaza (an ice rink in winter), ping-pong tables and a Poeziomátek box that plays Czech fairy-tale songs.
A big, varied playground on the north edge of Letná Park, set along the flat path near the Na Baště café. Kids climb oversized animal sculptures, frames and slides, and dig in the sand, while the open Letná plain next door has room for ball games and kites.
The park around it adds an in-line skating track, the skate plaza under the Metronome and a wooden carousel from the 1890s.
Children's Island is a 1.83-hectare island on the Vltava, reached by an arched footbridge from the Smíchov embankment. It holds several playgrounds split by age, with a carousel, climbing frames and sandpits, plus play equipment designed for kids with disabilities.
Older kids get an artificial-turf soccer field, a volleyball court and basketball hoops. A bronze statue of the Vltava stands at the northern tip.
Průhonice Park is a 250-hectare landscape park laid out from 1885 around a castle on the edge of Prague. Marked paths run through the rocky Botič stream valley, past large ponds, open meadows and about 1,600 kinds of native and exotic trees, including 8,000 rhododendrons.
It suits kids who are happy on a long walk. Bikes are not allowed, and visitors keep to the marked paths.
A small forest zoo by the gamekeeper's lodge in Chuchle Grove, a nature reserve above the Vltava. It belongs to the city's wildlife rescue station, so its 30-plus species are Czech animals with permanent handicaps that rule out release: fallow deer, wild boar, red deer, foxes, a lynx and an eagle owl. Around it, the grove has a nature trail, a playground and picnic spots with a fire pit.
Kunratice Forest, which locals call Kunraťák, is about 300 hectares of mixed woodland on Prague's south side, cut by the Kunratice stream and the Labuť pond. Marked trails pass the ruins of Nový Hrad castle, an old railway viaduct and several springs.
By the gamekeeper's lodge, a small zoo corner keeps fallow deer from the city's wildlife rescue station, and the woods hold two playgrounds.
A walled 86-hectare game reserve laid out in the 1500s, with three long tree-lined avenues meeting at the six-pointed Hvězda Summer Palace. Most paths run flat through beech, oak and fir woods, so it suits bikes, scooters and strollers.
There are two playgrounds and two picnic spots with fire pits, plus a traffic playground and volleyball court at the edge. In snowy winters, locals bring cross-country skis.
Prokop Valley is a nature reserve of wooded slopes, limestone cliffs and old quarries on the city's southwest edge. Paths follow the Prokopský stream past a small, cliff-ringed quarry lake (Prokopské jezírko), and small caves show in the hillsides.
The rock layers here are famous for fossils. A marked nature trail leads to the Butovice hillfort, and the Hlubočepy railway viaducts span the lower valley.
Hostivař Reservoir is the city's largest lake, ringed by a forest park. The main beach mixes lawns with a long sandy shore that slopes gently into the water.
Kids get a two-lane inflatable water slide, a big trampoline, a playground with a climbing wall, and pedal boats and paddleboards to rent. The wooded shore beyond the beach has more playgrounds, cycle paths and a rope park.
Kampa Park spreads 2.65 hectares of lawns and old trees across an island between the Vltava and the Čertovka, a narrow man-made channel. Kids can run the grass, use the playground, and spot the big wooden mill wheel of the old Grand Priory Mill on the Čertovka.
Museum Kampa's giant chair sculpture stands above the river, and Charles Bridge crosses the island's northern tip.
Petřín is a wooded hill of linked gardens rising above Malá Strana, crossed by walking paths with benches and city views. A funicular climbs from Újezd to the top, where the Petřín Lookout Tower, built in 1891 after the Eiffel Tower, and a mirror maze sit side by side. Kids also find several playgrounds, the medieval Hunger Wall and a rose garden at the summit.
Klamovka is a hillside English landscape park between Plzeňská and Podbělohorská streets, laid out by the Clam-Gallas family around their Rococo mansion. Paths wind past a Neo-Gothic gazebo from 1820, the Temple of the Night, a Rococo greenhouse, a monument to a horse named Cassel and a tiny church from 1752.
There is a playground for younger kids and a garden restaurant in the middle of the park.
Ladronka is a big open park on the Strahov-Motol slopes, built around a restored farmstead. Its main draw is a lit 4.6 km loop shared by inline skaters, cyclists, runners and strollers.
Kids get fenced playgrounds that stay open all year, and the farmstead restaurant adds an indoor play corner from October to March. Older kids also find volleyball and beach courts, disc golf and slacklines.
Grébovka is a hillside park laid out in the 1870s around an Italian Renaissance-style villa. Paths wind past a grotto, a fountain with a water cascade, a pond, pavilions and statues, down to a 1.7-hectare working vineyard with a wine gazebo and wide views over the city.
A playground sits inside the park, and the Grébovka Pavilion café keeps a replica of the original 1870s bowling alley.
Riegrovy Sady is an 11-hectare hillside park of open lawns, paths and playgrounds. The western slope looks across the city center to Prague Castle, a favorite picnic and sunset spot for locals, who call the park Riegrák.
The Bohemians and Sokol Vinohrady sports grounds sit inside the park, and the Rajská zahrada garden joins it to the north toward Žižkov.
The Šárka stream cuts a 2 km gorge through dark, hard rock here, with two narrow rocky passes and a plateau above. Trails follow the stream and climb to sunny cliff-top meadows, past the earth banks of a Slavic hillfort. Sheep and goats are brought in to graze the slopes.
In summer, an outdoor pool with a kids' wading pool and a slide opens in the valley.
Letná Park spreads across 25 hectares of lawns, mature trees and a long plane-tree avenue on the hill above the Vltava, with wide views over the Old Town and its bridges. Kids get a children's playground, room for inline skating and skateboarding, and the giant Metronome on the old Stalin monument plinth.
By the National Technical Museum, a wooden carousel from 1892 still runs, its horses covered in real horse hide.
Stromovka began in the 13th century as a royal game reserve and is now an English-style landscape park: lawns, old trees and four ponds on the Vltava floodplain. A long network of paths runs through it, good for walks, bikes and scooters.
Playgrounds are spread across the park, and the lawns are open for picnics. The Governor's Summerhouse, a Neo-Gothic summer palace, stands inside the park.
A walled monastery garden tucked behind Wenceslas Square, with rose arches over the benches, low yew hedges, fruit trees and herb beds. Kids can hunt for the sculptures and fountains, including the Boy with a Shell and the Wild Girls fountain, then head to the playground, which sits behind a wall of climbing plants. The early-Baroque pavilion and the Church of Our Lady of the Snows frame the lawns.
A walled former convent garden, counted as the oldest partly preserved garden in the city, with shady paths, old trees and a small pond. Several peacocks roam the grounds.
Kids can peer into the Chapel of St. Elijah, built to look like a stalactite cave, climb the wide stairs to a terrace with rose pergolas and a painted 17th-century sundial, and burn off energy at the playground.
Small boats leave from Judita, a medieval underground pier beside Charles Bridge, and cruise the Vltava and the Čertovka, the narrow mill channel that splits Kampa Island from Malá Strana. Kids pass under the bridge arches and past an old waterwheel.
Commentary comes on headphones in 19 languages, and the ticket includes the Charles Bridge Museum at the pier. In winter the boats are enclosed and heated.
Slovanka is a long-running boat rental on Slovanský ostrov, the Vltava island that holds Žofín Palace. Families take out wooden rowing boats, pedal boats for up to six, or the swan-shaped pedal boat, with Charles Bridge and Prague Castle in view from the water.
Life jackets for children and non-swimmers are on hand, and the dock kiosk sells drinks and snacks. Evening trips come with a kerosene lantern.
DinoPark Harfa sits on the roof of the Galerie Harfa shopping mall, next to the O2 Arena in Vysočany. More than 80 dinosaur models line the paths, many of them moving and making sounds, plus Kvído, a robot baby stegosaurus that walks the park with a ranger.
Kids can dig for bones in the paleontology playground, try the VR DinoRiders, stand up to the DinoHurricane storm simulator and explore the paleontologist's cabinet.
A 216-meter TV tower with giant crawling babies, fiberglass sculptures by artist David Černý, climbing its steel shafts. Fast elevators run to an observation deck at 93 meters with three cabins: one on the world's great towers, one with bubble chairs that play street sounds from below, and one showing Czech art.
The garden at the base has a minigolf course and, in winter, an ice rink.
Mořský svět is the largest saltwater aquarium in the Czech Republic, with more than 60 tanks and over 360 species. Kids can watch sharks, jellyfish and an octopus, walk through a coral cave and stand by the 100,000-liter main tank. The first floor reopened in 2026 with new Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific reef tanks.
Feeding sessions run every week, and the last Friday of each month brings an evening tour.
A 25-hectare hillside garden in Troja with a Japanese garden, a lake and wetland, prairie and forest plantings, and St. Clare's Vineyard.
The highlight for kids is the Fata Morgana greenhouse: a winding path through desert plants, a lowland rainforest with a 6-meter waterfall and a 4-meter-deep pond, a tunnel cut into the rock to tropical fish aquariums, and a cool zone of table-top mountain plants.
Petřín Lookout Tower is a steel lattice tower built in 1891 as a one-fifth copy of the Eiffel Tower. Kids climb 299 wooden steps to the top cabin at 51 meters, with a gallery and binoculars at 20 meters to break up the climb. On a clear day the view takes in the whole city and much of Bohemia. The basement holds a small exhibition on the hill's history.
A cable railway that climbs Petřín Hill from Újezd in Malá Strana, with a middle stop at Nebozízek and the top station by the lookout tower, the mirror maze and the rose garden. The ride takes about three minutes up a steep wooded slope, with views to Prague Castle.
New glass-heavy cars arrived in 2026: when they pass halfway, one winks and the other changes color.
Charles Bridge is a 516-meter stone footbridge over the Vltava, linking the Old Town to Malá Strana. Thirty statues and statue groups of saints line its railings, and fortified towers stand at each end.
No cars have crossed since 1965, so kids can walk the whole span, and a stone staircase near the Malá Strana end leads down to Kampa.
The largest castle complex in the world spreads across 45 hectares of courtyards, palaces and gardens on the hill above the Vltava. Kids can walk the small, colorful houses of Golden Lane, climb the St Vitus Cathedral tower, and see the Old Royal Palace and St George's Basilica.
Uniformed guards stand at the gates, and the changing of the guard draws a crowd.
Prague Zoo spreads over 58 hectares of hillside in Troja, with 15 pavilions and close to 700 species. Elephant Valley holds the zoo's herd, and the Ball's Pyramid exhibit shows Lord Howe Island stick insects found nowhere else in continental Europe.
At the Children's Zoo farm, kids can walk into the sheep enclosure and hand-feed them, then visit the pond, play area and children's tram.
An interactive museum of Karel Zeman, the Czech filmmaker whose trick effects made Journey to the Beginning of Time and The Fabulous Baron Munchausen famous. The rooms are built as film sets, and kids are invited in: climb onto a flying machine, ride Baron Munchausen's winged horses, or steer the submarine from Invention for Destruction. Each set explains the trick behind the scene, and photos and videos are encouraged.
More than 150 interactive optical illusions and large trick paintings fill this museum on the first floor of the Myšák Gallery, a short walk from Wenceslas Square.
Kids shrink and grow in a magic room, walk up a ceiling, get fired from a cannon, and ride off in a dinosaur's talons. Every exhibit is set up for photos, so bring a charged phone.
A big museum on farming and food in a historic building in Letná. The basement tractor hall shows more than twenty tractors built between 1917 and 1953, with pedal tractors and a track for small kids and a driving simulator for older ones.
Upstairs are fishing, gamekeeping and food exhibitions, farm-animal specimens led by César the bull, and a rooftop garden with beehives, crop beds and a view across the city.
A wooden pavilion shaped like an old Gothic city gate, built for the 1891 Jubilee Exhibition and moved to Petřín Hill the next year. Kids wind through a maze of 35 mirrors to a large painted diorama of Prague's 1648 fight against the Swedes on Charles Bridge, then end in the Hall of Laughter, where warped mirrors stretch and squash them. The Petřín Lookout Tower stands a short walk away.
Two basement floors of model railways, over 600 m². The largest layout covers six Czech regions in miniature, with Karlštejn castle, the Karlovy Vary colonnade and the Pilsen main station, and 80 to 90 trains, trams and cable cars running at once. Interactive buttons fell a tree or start a circus show.
The ticket also covers train simulators, VR, RC cars, a slot-car track, LEGO and a play area.
A public astronomy observatory from 1928 on Petřín hill, built against the medieval Hunger Wall. Its three domes hold telescopes, including a historic Zeiss double astrograph in the main dome. On clear days visitors look at the sun and sunspots; after dark, the moon, planets and deep-sky objects. Inside there is a permanent astronomy exhibition, and the Astrobistro café sits on the ground floor.
The planetarium sits at the edge of Stromovka park, under a 23.5-meter dome that recently became Europe's first LED dome, lit by 45 million diodes. Shows fill the whole dome: trips through the galaxy, the night sky, coral reefs and the Czech countryside, plus fairy-tale programs for the youngest viewers.
Before the show, kids can explore the foyer's exhibition zones and its giant LED wall.
An indoor illusion museum a short walk from Wenceslas Square, with more than 50 hands-on exhibits about how eyes and brains get fooled. Kids grow and shrink in the Ames Room, lie on a bed of 1,209 nails, cast colored shadows in the RGB Room and dance in a mirrored disco room that seems to go on forever. Cameras are welcome in every room, so expect plenty of photos.
The Public Transport Museum fills the Střešovice tram depot, built in 1909 and now a protected technical monument, with more than 40 historic vehicles: horse-drawn and electric trams, buses and trolleybuses. Kids can walk right up to the cars.
Around them are scale models of vehicles that no longer survive, old tickets, route maps and photos, and archive film of the city's early transit. A good pick for kids who love trams.
A private LEGO museum with about 3,000 models built from more than a million bricks, spread over 20 themed displays. Kids can spot LEGO versions of Charles Bridge, the Astronomical Clock and the National Theatre, plus Star Wars, Harry Potter, knights and trains, and learn that the first LEGO toys were wooden.
A building corner lets them make their own, and the shop stocks hard-to-find sets and minifigures.
The Historical Building at the top of Wenceslas Square holds the natural history halls: a fin whale skeleton, life-size models of prehistoric animals, fluorescent minerals and meteorites, and the domed Pantheon.
An underground passage leads to the New Building and its hands-on Children's Museum, where kids explore nature and invention through interactive exhibits and games. Older kids can add the 20th-century history galleries.
One of the country's largest museum buildings, with 16 permanent exhibitions over seven floors. The transportation hall is the headline: early cars, motorcycles, locomotives and dozens of aircraft hung from the ceiling, including a 1945 Spitfire.
A guided tour leads through 490 meters of model ore and coal mine, with original lamps and mining sounds. There is also a Merkur construction-set playroom, a TV studio, astronomy and chemistry.
