Museum of Evolution

I visited the Museum of Evolution on a Sunday morning shortly after opening, and spent around an hour photographing the many specimens on display. This museum is cash-only; although I could see a card reader, the admissions person would not let me enter by card, and had to pay with cash. Once I entered, I found myself in the lower floor of the Palace of Culture, several adjoining rooms with large dinosaur skeletons as the centrepiece. A room off to the side was devoted to fossils of aquatic life, mostly invertebrates such as ammonites, and fish. I was not able to find anything clearly labelled as tetrapod, such as an ichthyosaur or crocodile fossil. However, all of the rest of the displays focused on this group, including mammals, but notably dinosaurs, of which many specimens from Mongolia and North America were on display. These included many individuals of Protoceratops, a frilled dinosaur, Oviraptor eggs, skulls of the thick-headed dinosaurs Homalocephale and Prenocephale, and skulls of “duck-billed” hadrosaur Saurolophus. Many of these were casts or models, but there were several original specimens on display, some of which were indicated (in Polish). Of particular interest to the palaeontologist or dinosaur fan are original bones and casts of the long-necked dinosaur Opisthocoelicauda and likely-related genus Nemegtosaurus, including the whole skeleton featuring casts of bones from both genera, several individuals of Tyrannosaurus-relative Tarbosaurus, and original specimens of rare and unusual dinosaurs like Elmisaurus, Borogovia, and Bagaraatan (the original dentary, labelled as Tarbosaurus bataar). Other animals from Poland on display include possible dinosaur Smok wawelski, distant relative of early mammals Lisowicia, early relative of dinosaurs Silesaurus, and gliding animal Ozimek volans. It was great to see a display of multituberculates, a group of mammals alive during the reign of the dinosaurs, together with a poem dedicated to Polish palaeontologist Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska. On the whole, something for all dinosaur fans or fossil enthusiasts, and you will learn something new, even if you already consider yourself clued up on Polish or Mongolian palaeontology.

I visited here on Sunday with my friends, and I really enjoyed it because I love museums, especially those related to the era before humans. There are many models from the dinosaur era with detailed information, which makes them interesting. You can spend an hour to looking at them. At the entrance and in the central area of the tower, there should be instructions in English to help people find the place easily.

The museum is located st Pkin. Went together with mt family and my son really enjoyed the prehistoric models (lifesize). Good experience and information for someone who likes dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals and marine life. Is small and it will take approx less thsn hour to cover unless one is really interested to read in detail about the accompanying exhibits.

Great museum experience if you are into technology history. Kids might also like depending in their taste for science and maths.

Interesting museum, but unfortunately only with Polish explanations, therefore difficult to enjoy for tourists... It's quite small but with a fairly low price.

Very interesting museum, although it's small. What threw me off was the complete absence of any english labels at the exhibits. If you're already knowledgeable in sauropod evolution or fluent in Polish, this is a cool museum, but if not, then don't visit.

So I've come across this museum by coincidence, Ticket prices are: Student - 8 zł Regular - 16 zł Family - 30 zł It was nearly empty, probably 2-3 visitors during the day time. No complaints at all, It's a really simple museum, nothing THAT fascinating, there are some original pieces shown in this museum of aquatic creatures that lived in the past. Information about dinosaurs and stuff. It wasn't that fancy but i overall enjoyed the experience, took me 40 minutes. Everything is in polish though, that's the whole downside of it.

For foreigners coming here: there is virtually nothing in English on the display. Also, there are no lockers for the bags. If you know Polish, you will learn a lot about life on Earth millions of years ago. There are lots of interesting fossils, dinosaur bones but many of them are reconstructions. It's an old style museum with giant information boards, posters, there are many interesting stories to read about paleonthology. Nothing interactive, though. I enjoyed it anyway.