Top Things to do in Lesser Poland Province
Things to do in Lesser Poland Province, Southern Poland: The Best Children's Museums
Discover the best top things to do in Lesser Poland Province, Poland including Arthropoda - Butterfly Museum, HistoryLand, Illusion House Zakopane, Centrum Edukacji Przyrodniczej TPN, Krakow Wax Museum, Miasteczko Galicyjskie w Nowym Saczu, Muzeum Elektroniki.
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1. Arthropoda - Butterfly Museum
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 35 reviews
The exhibition is the largest permanent display of world's butterflies in Poland. Over five thousand (5049) specimen from all over the world can be viewed. Realised in 2009 by Jacek Kobiela and his son Filip Kobiela, the collection is a crowning of the over 35 year lasting passion of the former. Together, the two represent the second and the third generation of collectors in the family. They continue the legacy of Prof. Stanislaw Fischer, who established the Bochnia Museum in 1959, which currently bears his name. ,,Arthropoda's" collection includes an overview of day and night butterflies divided into families and genuses present in all of the world's continents. The collection shows arthropods - the biggest group of animals living on earth: day and night butterflies, beetles (Poland and world), scorpions, mantes, hemiptera. Species from around Bochnia comprise a substantial part of the collection. The exhibition is complemented by a selection of macro pictures of butterflies and beetle heads shot by Filip Kobiela. Butterfly classification is based on the taxonomy of Linnaeus, who first introduced latin binomial nomenclature describing biological species. The museum presents species, whose appearance and biology ilustrate various natural phenomena - a moth doesn't have to be grey and a butterfly can be a leaf, an owl or a tiger.
2. HistoryLand
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5.0 based on 1,352 reviews
Find yourself in the very heart of events and learn the history of our country in a way you have never known before! In the HistoryLand due to models built from LEGO® bricks and innovative, interactive solutions you will be the part of experiencing history that will blow all your senses! The HistoryLand is an interactive journey through the history of Poland and Poles. You will start from the Biskupin settlement. You will see the palisade built of LEGO® blocks, you will learn the habits of the people living in it, and you will also discover the world's oldest map of the sky. Fortunately, you will not be cracking this for long. The HistoryLand is also waiting for you at Grunwald, where you will stand in line with other soldiers and move to the heart of one of the greatest medieval battles and much more models built of more than a million LEGO® bricks!
Reviewed By SandroPaganotti
Poland history re-enacted using thousands of Lego Bricks and clever projections. There is a ton of technical marvel here, the audio guide is synched with your position, there are VR goggles, the lego buildings and battlefields are enhanced with 3D projections and in one exhibition you can highlight different areas of a miniature by waving your hand. 100% recommended!
3. Illusion House Zakopane
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 35 reviews
ILLUSION HOUSE ZAKOPANE offers a unique experience to see and enjoy the magic of optical illusions and 3D paintings that will play with your imagination. Come and experience that things are not always what they seem to be. Covering an area of 450square meters, over 30 attractions await that will awaken your curiosity. A truly fascinating experience for both kids and adults. As the old proverb says “Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”
4. Centrum Edukacji Przyrodniczej TPN
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4.5 based on 23 reviews
Reviewed By endrju_74 - Ipswich, United Kingdom
We've been to this place many years ago, when it was still called museum rather than educational centre, and shared it's premises with Tatras National Park authorities, as their seat. A lot has changed since, National Parks headquaters moved to old Zamoyski mansion in Kuźnice district of Zakopane, and the building itself underwent a large redevelopment, which included arranging new, modern exhibition part, suitable for 21st century. Todays educational centre is still located in the same building at Chałubińskiego street, just of large busy roudabout, and it's still a quiet oasis, due to being a bit back from the street, surrounded by trees. A bit confusing signs at the entrance to the centre's enclosure, saying "mind the deer" and "don't feed the deer", which raised our hopes for meeting this animal face to face, but even if we took a stroll around the premises - we never found one. Anyway, first of all we decided to visit the exhibition inside, and then to have walk around on a educational path. Indoor exhibitions are all set up in currently fashionable multimedia style. All those stuffed animals, which used to be left in glassed cabinets in the nineties, now are are presented in their natural habitats, and all those arrangements look like cut off from the nature and moved into the Centre. There's quite a few rooms of it, there's one small cinema room, and then there's a room with huge model of Tatra mountains. There's a room arranged like a cave, with all sounds one would hear in cave, which is mainly water dropping. There are also rooms, which are ony available to organised groups of school kids. Any trip, any exploration of Tatra National Park should really start here, even if that deer is not there. Or maybe it is there, we just couldn't find it?
5. Krakow Wax Museum
Overall Ratings
2.5 based on 115 reviews
The latest tourist attraction in Krakow. Super made and unique wax figures. Actors, celebrities, singers. Visit us and meet famous and loved. We recommend the attraction for people of all ages. Super fun for kids and adults. The best selfie for all.
Reviewed By 870nickia - Manchester, United Kingdom
The poster in the main square did not fully indicate how much fun we were going to have. Some of the exhibits were very very realistic and others were ... fun. Great post Auschwitz therapy.
6. Miasteczko Galicyjskie w Nowym Saczu
The Galician Town presents the small town buildings from the end of the 19Th C. It' s a department of the Nowy Sącz District Museum.
7. Muzeum Elektroniki
An exhibition of retro computers, consoles, video games and other equipment of the bygone era. 40 stands with retro games and a whole lot of forgotten electronic equipment. Come and travel back in time, how computers used to look like and play some cult titles. See our exhibition of old polish radio's, tv and other.
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