About the trail

The Czech Academy of Sciences educational trail in Prague 8 is a science centre under the open sky. See for yourself – and try with your own hands – how a flywheel works, how to “trap” light inside an optical fibre, or play at being an electron in an atom, and much more!

We are here for families with children, for schools and kindergartens, and for the general public. Science runs through the everyday lives of all of us and is something we can reach out and touch – even if we sometimes do not realise it.

The trail was created on the initiative of the Academy’s institutes at Ládví and in Kobylisy: the Institute of Physics, the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, the Institute of Photonics and Electronics, the Institute of Plasma Physics, the Institute of Computer Science, the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, and the Institute of Thermomechanics. The Academy grounds are surrounded by housing and by the Okrouhlík nature monument, which makes the area ideal for a walk – now with a chance to peek behind the scenes of science along the way.

You can walk the trail in any direction and in any order, all at once or bit by bit: see the map below to find us. For schools we also have worksheets!