MUSEUM OF EVOLUTION
INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY
Polish Academy of Sciences
Address: Palace of Culture and Science, Plac Defilad 1, 00-110 Warszawa
Phone: (+48 22) 656 66 37
E-mail: muzewol@paleo.pan.p
Opening times
Tuesday – Saturday: 8.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.
Sunday: 9.00 a.m. – 3.00 p.m.
On other days and public holidays, the Museum is closed.
Last visitors can enter the Museum 30 minutes before closing.
Museum of Evolution is not adapted for people with disabilities – we are sorry for the inconvenience.
Guide dogs and assistance dogs are allowed to enter the museum.
Ticket prices
Adults – 20 PLN
Children & Students (ISIC) – 10 PLN
All information boards accompanying the exhibits are in Polish only.
Museum_of_Evolution_Guidebook in english [PDF – 1,39 MB]
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Museum of Evolution Regulations – effective from 1 August 2024
Visitors may enter the Museum of Evolution no later than 30 minutes before its closing time.
External licensed guides can guide you through the exhibits of the Museum of Evolution after purchasing a tour ticket. A subscription can be purchased on days when the Museum does not provide its guide (on holidays). The Museum of Evolution is not responsible for the content provided by external guides.
Eating is prohibited in the museum premises and on the premises of the Youth Palace.
A reduced-price ticket is available to children and young people up to 18 years of age, students studying in Poland, foreign students with an ISIC card, pensioners and disability pensioners receiving benefits in Poland, disabled adults with a certificate, and carers of disabled persons.
Free admission for children up to 4 years of age and honorary blood donors (III-I degree).
The museum grounds are accessible to guide dogs and service dogs.
You can come with a dog in your arms and a pet in a carrier.
Museum News
Protoceratops are hatching at the Museum of Evolution IPal PAS!
On December 6, a new exhibition was unveiled at the Museum of Evolution of the Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw showing a restoration of a protoceratops nest…
Science News
Coatings on shells from hydrothermal vents
Shells of marine gastropods from hydrothermal vent environments are coated with inorganic materials of unknown composition. Conversely, their fossil equivalents are known exclusively from outer moulds in pyrite (FeS2), with no shell material left.
Methanogenic carbonates
Methane (CH4) is largely built from the light carbon isotope (12C). When emitted from the seabed, methane is oxidized by sediment-dwelling microorganisms, with one of the byproducts being methanogenic carbonate cements, themselves with large amounts of the 12C.
Ammonites survived across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary
Ammonites, extinct cephalopods dominant in Mesozoic marine ecosystems, are often listed amongst victims of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction (66 Ma).
Rudists: Extreme climate witnesses
Rudists, extinct bivalves with massive shells, built vast reefs in the tropical Cretaceous seas.
Crinoids with unusual morphology
In the prestigious series Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, a chapter was released that synthesizes data on the functional morphology and paleoecology of crinoids with unusual morphologies.
The direct ancestor of cowries
A taxonomic revision of the extinct genus Zittelia from Jurassic sediments made it possible to trace a gradual evolutionary change in shell morphology…
Database of fossil turtles
A POLONEZ BIS project, led by Dr. Milan Chroust in collaboration with Dr. Tomasz Szczygielski from the Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences…
Manouria morla, a Miocene tortoise
The paper presents a new Miocene species of a tortoise from Czechia – Manouria morla. Its specific name refers to Morla the Aged One, a turtle from “The Neverending Story” by Michael Ende.
Food strengthens coral skeletons and survival in an acid ocean
Deep ocean waters are seen as refugia that can protect cold-water, non-symbiotic corals from warming and acidification.