Praha 7 is Holešovice, Letná and Bubeneč: big parks with room to run, river views, and old industrial halls turned into theaters and markets. This list pulls together the parks, playgrounds, museums, shows and workshops there that work for kids, and it updates on its own as new plans come up, so it's worth a look before the weekend.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Praha 7 is Holešovice, Letná and Bubeneč: big parks with room to run, river views, and old industrial halls turned into theaters and markets. This list pulls together the parks, playgrounds, museums, shows and workshops there that work for kids, and it updates on its own as new plans come up, so it's worth a look before the weekend.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
