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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International Student Identity Card (ISIC)
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 IP 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
Osteology of the giant dicynodont from Lisowice
The description of the complete skeleton of a dicynodont from Lisowice has enabled a new interpretation of incomplete data on Late Triassic dicynodonts.
Climate change in Antarctica
…new data from Maxwell Bay, a wide-open bay in the South Shetland Islands.
The composition of seawater affects the hardness of sea urchin shells
Experiments on Recent sea urchins grown in seawater with a low Mg/Ca ratio have shown that they produce skeletons with lower magnesium content and nanohardness.
Morphological convergence of the coral skeleton
Turbinoliidae are a group of solitary scleractinian corals (suborder Refertina) with small conical coralla…
Distinguishing biogenic carbonates
Biogenic minerals (biominerals) differ in structure and biogeochemical composition from their abiotic counterparts.
A monograph on the Mesozoic crinoids of Africa and Asia
The first monographic study of several dozen crinoid taxa (including one new species) from the Jurassic and Cretaceous sediments of Africa and Asia (southern Tethys).
The last shallow-water stem crinoids
Recent stalked crinoids exclusively live at considerable depths, but in the geological past they were common in shallow-marine environments.
Deep-water fauna from the Eocene flysch from Buje (Croatia)
They are composed chiefly of chemosymbiotic lucinid and thyasirid bivalves.
Zalambdalestes lechei, a Late Cretaceous mammal from Mongolia
An international team analysed functional morphology of the neck and paleoecology of the Late Cretaceous eutherian mammal Zalambdalestes lechei from Mongolia.