Museum of Illusions Wrocław

Data utworzenia: 2022-07-22

The Museum of Illusions can be treated as a mini-laboratory of entertainment with exhibits that use playing with perspective, distorted mirrors

The Museum of Illusions in Wrocław is a fascinating place that will surely surprise you with numerous inventions. Here, art meets illusion and science.

The Museum of Illusions can be treated as a mini-entertainment laboratory with 70 stands with devices that use perspective play, deformed mirrors and lenses, and play with light. It is a perfect place to organize extremely interesting lessons in physics, chemistry, optics or mathematics.

Museum of Illusions in Wrocław – how to get there?

The Museum of Illusions is located on the ground floor of a tenement house on Staromłyńska Street on the Piasek Island. Car traffic in this part of the city is limited. It is best to leave the car in the car parks at:

  • pl. Bema, 

  • ul. Mieszka I, 

  • pl. Katedralny,

  • Hala Targowa,

  • pl. Nankiera,

  • pl. Nowy Targ,

  • ul. Styki i Kossaka,

  • ul. Purkyniego,

  • ul. Kraińskiego.

You can get to the area of the Museum of Illusions by public transport:
tram lines: 6, 8, 9, 11, 17, 23 (pl. Bema stop),
bus lines: C, 128 (pl. Bema stop).

Opening hours of the Museum of Illusions in Wrocław

The Museum of Illusions is open daily from Monday to Sunday.
Opening hours:

  • Monday - Friday 10:00-19:00
  • Saturday - Sunday 10:00-20:00

Wroclaw Museum of Illusions - ticket prices
Tickets can be purchased online via the museum's website (online tickets do not entitle to skip the line). You can also buy a ticket at the entrance to the museum.
Children under the age of 14 should be under the supervision of adults when visiting the museum.

Ticket prices

  • Adults 50 zł
  • Students, pupils, seniors 40 zł
  • Preschoolers (3-6 years old) 19 zł
  • Family ticket (2 adults + 2 children) 145 zł
  • Kids under 3 years old free

What is there to see at the Museum of Illusions in Wrocław?

On over 70 stands in three huge rooms (400 sq m in total) there are surprising devices made of mirrors, lenses and exhibits emitting various types of light. It is a rich collection of original instruments from different eras and cultures that make you wonder how the world works.
The catalog of the Museum of Illusions includes, among others:
- infinity cube,
- Kitaoka snakes,
- Ames window,
- upside down room
- a mirage in miniature,
- set of holograms,
- a copy of Pieter Bruegel's painting "Landscape with a gallows".

It is worth finding out for yourself how the exhibits at the Museum of Illusions work. Adults will feel confused at being led astray by their own senses, but this feeling will soon give way to pure fascination. Younger viewers will love to play.
In the Museum of Illusions, visitors are accompanied by helpful guides. The experiments are interesting, but the explanation of how the exhibits work is no less fascinating.

Museum of Illusions Wrocław - contact
address: ul. Staromłyńska 4
phone: +48 789 105 945
e-mail:

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