The problem of organizing leisure time for young fidgets is well known to all parents. It is quite difficult to guess whether a child will like the vacation or not. Entertainment in Nizhny Novgorod for children is especially good because classes for girls and boys can be found for every taste and family budget. Every year the number of play and interactive playgrounds in the city increases, new entertainment and educational projects appear.
Popular theaters, parks, centers are also improving their work. In Nizhny Novgorod, a comfortable environment has been created for the spiritual, intellectual, physical development of children of all age groups. This is another reason to choose a city for family vacations and combine a pleasant pastime with girls and boys gaining useful knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Sormovsky park
Many adults and children associate the name of the forest park with the famous “Sormovskoye” cookies, which are produced in the region. Residents, guests of the city take with them on walks with great pleasure. The park is located on the border of two urban areas: Sormovsky and Moscow.
Walking in it strengthens health, because a huge number of pines and other conifers grow on its territory. One of the favorite distinctions for little fidgets here is feeding swans and ducks. The Madagascar Zoo and the Kariby Water Park are located in this protected area. The second is open seasonally and has a children's pool and family slides.
Trampolines, a Ferris wheel, and a shooting range are considered the most popular of the traditional attractions of the Sormovsky Park. The structure of the entertainment complex includes a beach, where in the warm season are open rental points for catamarans, sports equipment, an all-season skating rink (with a children's section), a large number of sports and playgrounds.
Dinoland
The paid entertainment area is part of the Sormovsky Park. It was specially created so that children can relax in the fresh air and at the same time study the history of the living world of the planet. For young visitors in Dinoland there are interesting excursion programs designed for different age categories.
More than 30 dinosaur figures are installed on the territory of the entertainment area. Young fidgets love to take selfies near them and the copies of eggs of prehistoric animals. The figures are made of alloys of metals and polymeric materials, they look very realistic, the sculptures move and growl. All the exhibits of Dinoland were created with the participation of paleontologists, therefore its organizers managed to perfectly recreate the atmosphere of the ancient world.
Zoo "Madagascar"
The zoo is relatively recently opened on the territory of the Sormovsky Park. Along with Dinoland, it is conceived as an educational and entertainment venue. Here, conditions have been created for animals that are as close as possible to their natural habitat. In the zoo you can see porcupines, predatory representatives of the feline family, camels, fur seals, raccoons, hyenas, llamas, Japanese cranes, various parrots. Pets (rabbits, goats, sheep), which can be stroked and fed, also live in it.
A visit to the zoo is paid. Ticket prices depend on the days of the week, with the highest prices on weekends. Girls, boys under 7 years old, disabled children can watch the inhabitants of the zoo for free. The best option for older visitors: purchasing club cards. The latter allow you to buy tickets 3-4 times cheaper.
Wonderland Park "Galileo
An entertaining interactive complex is open every day; it is part of the all-Russian network of parks of the same name. The huge indoor pavilion "Galileo" is striking in its scale. The park consists of several thematic sections. Young fidgets in it can learn a lot about the laws of physics, take selfies near unusual objects of expositions, conduct chemical experiments in a specially equipped laboratory.
Galileo has developed about 20 excursion programs for children and adults.
The entertainment complex offers individual, group lessons in a wide variety of scientific fields. Colorful shows are regularly held here. The list of Galileo's services includes the organization of celebrating children's birthdays. As guests and residents of the city note, the park has a pleasant atmosphere, where children of all ages feel confident, relaxed, and communicate with other visitors at ease.
Park them. 1st of May
Entrance to the public recreation area is free. Together with the sports stadium, it occupies 15 hectares. The park attracts the attention of selfie lovers, it has a huge number of bright flower beds, interesting sculptures, near which children love to be photographed. The entertainment complex operates year-round; sports equipment rental offices operate on its territory.
The park is famous for its attractions, including roller coasters, homely cozy playgrounds for children. Its structure includes the Mysterious Island park, the Northern Blue ice skating rink, and a stationary dolphinarium. The dolphin show is always popular with the visitors of the complex.
Children enjoy swimming and communicating with good-natured sea animals. There is also a petting zoo in the park, where turtles, goats, raccoons, iguanas, rabbits and donkeys live.
Dolphinarium "Atlantis"
Located in the park named after May 1. The schedule of performances in it must be specified in advance. This advice also applies to booking tickets. A visit to the dolphinarium with a child can hardly be called a budget event (prices for photo and video filming, additional services in an entertainment institution are European), however, if you do not take care in advance, you will find yourself without tickets.
In "Atlantis" the young guest will be able to fulfill his dream: to swim with dolphins, meet his birthday surrounded by friendly inhabitants of the deep sea and make the most intimate wish. Here you can register your child to attend dolphin therapy sessions if the young fidget has no contraindications for health reasons.
After communication (even short-term during the show) with dolphins, the children lose the consequences of psychosomatic disorders, dysfunction of the nervous and mental systems of the body, and improve their intellectual and physical development.
Park Switzerland
The landscape of the recreation area in the Prioksky district is 100% similar to the picturesque corners of the Swiss cantons! It is noteworthy that climatic conditions also coincide. Noisy rides occupy a strictly defined part of the park (in its center). It is here that children of all ages frolic on trampolines, travel in a road train, ride cars at the autodrome.
The eponymous zoo is located in a clean, cozy park area, where you can take pictures next to its inhabitants and animal sculptures. Today, it is partially open for visiting, like many play areas of the park. This is due to the fact that a large-scale reconstruction of many objects has begun. Local authorities plan to transform the park into a unique resort complex with 8 recreation areas, including a children's section, a yacht club, and new sports grounds.
Zoo "Limpopo"
Visitors compare one of the best zoos in Russia to a magical land. More than 200 species of rare birds and animals live here. The zoo has existed for less than 20 years.It began with the fact that the Novgorodians tried to help local wild animals, which, for one reason or another, were injured. The zoo is private.
Children under the age of 5 can visit it for free. The same privilege is given to girls and boys from large families, children with disabilities. An important nuance: there are also family passes in Limpopo. The zoo is divided into 2 territories, to visit each of them you need separate tickets or one common one.
Accompanying adults to allow children to enter its territory is a prerequisite. The zoo includes: an entertainment complex "Amazonia", a tropical botanical garden, areas with attractions, a pet shop, an exposition of old motorcycles, a large number of small outlets with all kinds of sweets.
Museum of entertaining sciences "Kvarki"
A unique space is located in the shopping center "Hansa". "Quarks" includes 3 zones. Its exposition is devoted to the development of science in different epochs of human existence: from ancient times to the present day. Physics and mechanics are not the only areas that children can learn about in the Museum of Entertaining Sciences.
Here girls and boys get acquainted with the possibilities of optics, electrodynamics, acoustics. The puzzles installed in its departments are very popular among museum visitors. Part of the space is intended for experiments with optical illusions and mechanical devices. Young researchers are given the opportunity to work with exhibits, check the operation of various devices, participate in interactive shows, and take photographs.
There are no restrictions on stay in the museum. Buying one ticket is enough for a child to see a show of soap bubbles and turning objects into ice, attend master classes in three-dimensional graphics, sand animation, making optical toys and much more.
Museum of Illusions and the House of the Giant
There are museums with this name in different parts of Russia. In Nizhny Novgorod, an entertainment facility is open every day. The museum allows you to find yourself in incredible fantastic spaces. It consists of different sections, and the House of the Giant is only one of its parts. Entrance to the fairy-tale world for children under 4 years old is free. There is no age limit for the rides, with the exception of the Labyrinth of Fear and the Break the Dishes entertainment.
Selfies in the Giant's House are very popular. Pictures without any special effects are very realistic. The same can be said about the photographs of the miracle house, which is located upside down. A wonderful space does not leave indifferent even adults. The most profitable way to visit the museum is to purchase single tickets, the price of which includes the cost of all attractions.
Planetarium them. Grechko
The Digital Planetarium is open to visitors all days except Monday and Tuesday. There are special programs for children, individual and group subscriptions are provided. Entertainment in the planetarium is not limited to virtual simulators. Unique exhibits are placed in its building: parts of a real spaceship.
It is better to start your acquaintance with the planetarium with a sightseeing tour. An important point: in it you can admire the stars in any weather and observe the movement of heavenly bodies. Among the educational multimedia programs of the traditional planetarium, the most popular are those devoted to the solar system, planets and asteroids, the search for contacts with extraterrestrial civilizations. There is an aerospace center "Attraction" at the institution for little why children.
The planetarium has its own concert venue, where colorful shows are regularly held for spectators of all ages. The building has a kiosk with children's and teenage space games, books on astronomy, souvenirs, a cafe with sweets and always fresh pastries, serving original dishes from the diet of astronauts, packed in special tubes.
Exotarium
An exhibition of exotic animals has been operating in the city for over 20 years. At the moment, you can see over 80 species of rare animals here. Not only snakes, turtles, lizards live in the Exotarium, but they are the ones that attract the attention of children. If a child is interested in art, history, it will be interesting for him to see the building where the Exotarium is located. This is an architectural monument; before the revolution, representatives of the noble assembly sat in the house, and Christmas balls were held.
The Exotarium is open daily. For disabled children, children from large families, toddlers under the age of 4, admission is free. If the child has a birthday, too. For photography and video filming in the exhibition halls, you must obtain permission from the Exotarium administration. At the exhibition, there is a pet shop, where, as a gift for a child, there is an opportunity to purchase a gecko, maize snake, tarantula or other amazing representatives of the world of fauna.
Technical museum
The museum was opened relatively recently. The very first exhibit that meets its visitors is located in the open air - it is a fire pump. If a child is interested in mechanisms, the opportunity to get acquainted with the expositions of the museum will become a real holiday for him. The "pearls" of this collection of rarities are considered to be an ancient bronze mirror and a stone ax.
Among the exhibits you can see old mechanisms: a forge, a lathe, a gear drilling machine, a steelyard, a multi-wheeled bicycle, a phaeton, and other devices. All of them are in good working order. The museum staff demonstrate to the visitors how the technique, which is not so familiar to modern people, worked.
Young music fans will also find it interesting to visit and listen to recordings on a phonograph, gramophone, tape recorder. The museum houses cash registers, telephone booths, soda machines, motorcycles, mopeds, and bicycles made during the Soviet era. An important part of the collection are collections of watches and sets of German instruments created before World War II.
Cable car
During the cold and warm seasons, the amazing crossing of the Volga operates in different modes, so it is better to check the time of its operation in advance on the Internet. The cable car is very popular among the guests of the city, to which the Novgorodians, who are already accustomed to it, treat with humor. The ferry project was developed by French specialists.
It connected Nizhny Novgorod with the town of Bor (a regional regional center) and in just a few weeks from the moment of its opening, it turned into a fashionable tourist attraction. The cable car cabins offer stunning views of the river and its surroundings, famous historical and natural monuments.
Thanks to the cable car ride, there is an opportunity to see the architectural ensemble of the Pechersky Monastery buildings from a bird's eye view, the buildings of the park of historical reconstructions. The latter is not a monument: it was created in our time! This is how small towns on the outskirts of the mighty Roman Empire looked 20 centuries ago.
Puppet Theatre
Many people compare a visit to a puppet theater to a journey into the world of dreams. At a Novgorod cultural institution, it is really fabulous. Residents of the city are in a hurry to book tickets for performances early, because tourists traveling with children also try to visit the famous theater during their stay in Nizhny Novgorod, created thanks to the Yavorskys.
The theatrical repertoire is based on classical performances of fairy tales loved from childhood: folk and author's. For schoolchildren, puppets conduct interactive performances-classes according to the Rules of the Road.High school students in the theater have the opportunity to get acquainted with performances based on the works of Dante and other famous foreign authors.
The popularity of the puppets created in the theater workshop is so great that they are considered “pearls” of museum and private collections. In the theater, the child will be able to get in touch with the magic of art. If a young fidget does not like to read, performances will help to awaken in him an interest in Russian, foreign classics.
