Visiting Wrocław with kids for a weekend

During the long May weekend, we decided to visit Wrocław with the kids. Our plan was quite ambitious: two days spent seeing the most interesting kid-friendly attractions. We had booked a hotel in the suburban town of Siechnice.

The plan was as follows:

SATURDAY

• visit the Kolejkowo model railway exhibition at Świebodzki Railway Station,
• enjoy the view from the top of the Sky Tower,
• visit the zoo, mainly because we wanted to see the Afrykarium, which we hadn't been able to visit last time,
• the evening Multimedia Fountain show

SUNDAY

• viewpoint at Cathedral tower,
• cable car ride - Polinka,
• Hydropolis, which is a museum about water

The plan was fully carried out, and along the way we also enjoyed a great game offered by the city of Wrocław - finding dwarfs.

These small dwarf figures are scattered throughout the city. You can use a mobile app with a map of their locations. Using the phone and map while walking around the city, you can find all of them. Each location has a photo and a short description. The figures refer to the places where they stand. The idea is simple and encourages you to visit interesting places in the city.

Fun fact: the dwarfs are a nod to the Orange Alternative, a movement that peacefully mocked the communist authorities in the 1980s and painted dwarfs on walls. The first figure, Papa Krasnal on Świdnicka Street, was unveiled on 1 June 2001. In 2026 there are already more than a thousand dwarfs in Wrocław.

We managed to find the following dwarfs:

• Trójkuć Wywiadek
• Temidek
• Sportuś
• Afrokrasnal 1
• Afrokrasnal 2
• Kinoman
• Murarz
• Kanapownik
• Panna Młoda (at the Registry Office),
• Pan Młody (at the Registry Office),
• Wrati (at Selgros),
• Slavi (at Selgros)
• Edukacjusz,
• Hipoczyściciel (at the zoo),
• Papa Krasnal,
• Żarłok (at a KFC restaurant)
• Royal Dencial 1,
• Royal Dencial 2,
• Syzyfki,
• Syzyfek 2,
• Pocztuś,
• Bartonek,
• TynQuś,
• Wiesiek Partnerski,
• Życzliwek,
• Gołębnik,
• Wodziarz,
• W-Skers,
• Ślepak,
• Głuchak,
• Turysta,
• Wypłacarek,
• Suvenirek,
• Wroclovek,
• Ogorzałek,
• Opiłek,
• Strażak,
• Pożarek,
• Śpioch,
• Weteran,
• Chrapek,
• Arcik Podróżnik,
• Rzeźnik,
• Obieżysmak,
• Kuźnik,
• Ciastuś,
• Amorinek,
• Dryndek,
• Lo Gnomo Italiano,
• Więziennik,
• Latarnik,
• Wykształciuch

We found 52 out of 288. You can see in the video how much fun we had with this game:

We liked Wrocław very much and will surely come back. After all, we still have dwarfs left to find.