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
A review of ornithischian nomenclature
Ornithischians were a major dinosaur lineage that existed from the Triassic–Jurassic boundary interval to the end of the Cretaceous…
A new Triassic turtle from France
The earliest turtles are known from the middle Late Triassic (Norian), but their record in the latest Triassic (Rhaetian) is very scarce…
How long do crinoids live?
For the first time, the lifespan of deep-sea stalked crinoids was determined using the bomb radiocarbon method…
Early Cretaceous diversification of Neogastropoda
A new fossil (Early Cretaceous) marine snail, Fimbrivasum bulgaricum provides rare evidence of the early evolution of Neogastropoda…
Fossil crinoids from Panthalassa
Today, stalked crinoids are confined to the deep sea, although their ancestors once dominated shallow-marine environments.
Giant predators in a tropical Cretaceous sea
The Paja Formation (Colombia) preserves an exceptional fossil record of a tropical sea 120 million years old.
Triassic lungfish from Frick
Lungfish were common in Late Triassic freshwater ecosystems but remain surprisingly understudied.
Two new Triassic turtles from Greenland
Turtles appeared in the Triassic and quickly attained global distribution.
Species concept in palaeontology
Principles of species identification in fossil material are a fundamental problem in palaeontology.