Rainy afternoon, restless kids: this is the list we reach for. Sharks and a deep-sea bathyscaphe, a blue whale skeleton, an old tram depot full of stamps to hunt, and a painted battle that wraps all the way around you. Here's what we checked, from Hydropolis to the Racławice Panorama.
Hydropolis is an interactive museum about water, run by the city water company inside the historic Na Grobli waterworks. Kids walk past a tiger shark model with a shoal of 1,500 tuna, a full-size replica of the Trieste bathyscaphe, deep-sea creature models and a 3.5-meter water vortex.
There are more than 70 interactive installations, cinema rooms, and a children's zone with multimedia games about dolphins and coral reefs.
Founded in 1814, this university museum fills its halls with mounted animals, skeletons, insects and plants. The centerpiece is a 14.6-meter blue whale skeleton, the only one in Poland. Kids can also find a giant deer skeleton, a Tasmanian tiger and an aurochs skull.
Four permanent exhibitions cover the animal world, the plant world, vertebrate skeletons, and insects and people.
A former tram depot holds the main exhibition, 'Wrocław 1945-2016', the story of how people arriving from across Poland and the former eastern borderlands rebuilt the city after World War II.
It is scenographic and hands-on: kids can start in the Peace Race, sign the Polish bishops' famous letter and play an underground opposition printer. A stamp-hunt map leads them into hidden corners, with a small prize at reception.
A 15 by 114 meter painting of the 1794 Battle of Racławice wraps around a round hall, and visitors stand on a central platform as the battle circles them. A dark, winding corridor leads in, and built-up terrain in front of the canvas blends into the paint.
Audio commentary plays in many languages, including English and a version for children. A side room has films on its history.
The museum fills the baroque main building of the University of Wrocław. The Aula Leopoldina is a gilded ceremonial hall under illusion-painted ceiling frescoes, and the Oratorium Marianum is a second painted hall.
The Imperial Staircase climbs to the Mathematical Tower, an 18th-century observatory with a 15-meter meridian line set into its floor and a viewing terrace about 42 meters up over the Old Town.
Rainy afternoon, restless kids: this is the list we reach for. Sharks and a deep-sea bathyscaphe, a blue whale skeleton, an old tram depot full of stamps to hunt, and a painted battle that wraps all the way around you. Here's what we checked, from Hydropolis to the Racławice Panorama.
Hydropolis is an interactive museum about water, run by the city water company inside the historic Na Grobli waterworks. Kids walk past a tiger shark model with a shoal of 1,500 tuna, a full-size replica of the Trieste bathyscaphe, deep-sea creature models and a 3.5-meter water vortex.
There are more than 70 interactive installations, cinema rooms, and a children's zone with multimedia games about dolphins and coral reefs.
Founded in 1814, this university museum fills its halls with mounted animals, skeletons, insects and plants. The centerpiece is a 14.6-meter blue whale skeleton, the only one in Poland. Kids can also find a giant deer skeleton, a Tasmanian tiger and an aurochs skull.
Four permanent exhibitions cover the animal world, the plant world, vertebrate skeletons, and insects and people.
A former tram depot holds the main exhibition, 'Wrocław 1945-2016', the story of how people arriving from across Poland and the former eastern borderlands rebuilt the city after World War II.
It is scenographic and hands-on: kids can start in the Peace Race, sign the Polish bishops' famous letter and play an underground opposition printer. A stamp-hunt map leads them into hidden corners, with a small prize at reception.
A 15 by 114 meter painting of the 1794 Battle of Racławice wraps around a round hall, and visitors stand on a central platform as the battle circles them. A dark, winding corridor leads in, and built-up terrain in front of the canvas blends into the paint.
Audio commentary plays in many languages, including English and a version for children. A side room has films on its history.
The museum fills the baroque main building of the University of Wrocław. The Aula Leopoldina is a gilded ceremonial hall under illusion-painted ceiling frescoes, and the Oratorium Marianum is a second painted hall.
The Imperial Staircase climbs to the Mathematical Tower, an 18th-century observatory with a 15-meter meridian line set into its floor and a viewing terrace about 42 meters up over the Old Town.
