Praha 1 packs a lot of museums into a few walkable streets, and some of them work well for kids: hands-on exhibits, things to build or touch, and collections small enough to finish before anyone gets restless. These are the museums in the old center we'd take our own kids to, close enough to pair with a walk and a snack.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Praha 1 packs a lot of museums into a few walkable streets, and some of them work well for kids: hands-on exhibits, things to build or touch, and collections small enough to finish before anyone gets restless. These are the museums in the old center we'd take our own kids to, close enough to pair with a walk and a snack.
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.
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.
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.
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.
