Basic information

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.

Attention! On April 8 – 10 (Easter), our museum will be 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.

Ticket prices

Adults – 12 PLN
Children & Students – 6 PLN

Warsaw Pass

International Student Identity Card (ISIC)

All information boards accompanying the exhibits are in Polish only.

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

 

Structure of the inner ear of early lagomorphs

The structure of the inner ear in mammals is highly informative with respect to locomotor agility and hearing sensitivity.

 

Fossils of the soft tissues of dinosaur tendons have been discovered

Tendons are elements connecting muscles and bones. In most vertebrates, they are flexible and elastic but in dinosaurs (including birds) some of them ossify.

 

Reconstruction of the retiolitines

Retiolitids are one of the group of graptolites with collagenous skeleton (rhabdosome) formed mostly by a network of lists.