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 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
The first remains of Miocene reptiles from Moravia
Description of the first remains of a crocodile and a sea turtle from the Middle Miocene locality of Kienberg in the Moravian part of Czechia.
New specimens of rare plesiosaurs from the Pliensbachian of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)
The Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic, ∼192.9–184.2 Ma) plesiosaurs are poorly understood…
Reconstructions of sea temperatures from millions of years ago
Fossilized marine calcifiers provide key data for reconstructing ancient seawater temperatures…
Wilhelm Friedberg’s Collections in Lviv
Wilhelm Friedberg (1873–1941) was a Polish naturalist focussing on Miocene geology and palaeontology…
Recovery of ecosystems after the Taghanic extinction
Kyrtatrypa pauli, a new Givetian brachiopod species from Świętomarz and Laskowa in the Holy Cross Mountains, is described.
Impact of whaling on the environment
As late as in the mid-1960s, whales were still being intensively harvested and processed in South Georgia.
Coprolites are key to understanding the origin of dinosaurs
Hundreds of fossils with direct evidence of foraging were used to compare the trophic dynamics of five vertebrate communities…
Triassic fish from the Dolomites
Where the Dolomites stand today, about 235 million years ago there was a warm sea with many coral reefs.
Anatomy of the cervical vertebrae in tenysaurians
Bones with large hollow spaces are one of the characteristic features of dinosaurs (including birds) and pterosaurs.Bones with large hollow spaces are one of the characteristic features of dinosaurs (including birds) and pterosaurs.