The problem of organizing the leisure of young fidgets is well known to all parents. It is quite difficult to guess whether the child will like the rest 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 city increases the number of gaming, interactive sites, new entertainment and educational projects appear.

Sormovsky park

Many adults and children associate the name of the forest park with the famous Sormovskoe cookies, which are produced in the region. Residents and guests of the city take this delicacy with great pleasure. The park is located on the border of two city districts: Sormovsky and Moscow.

Walking in it improves health, because a huge number of pines and other coniferous trees grow on its territory. One of the favorite distinctions for little fidgets here is the feeding of swans, ducks. The Madagascar Zoo and the Caribbean Water Park are located within this protected area. The second is open seasonally and has a children's pool and family slides.

Of the traditional attractions of the Sormovskiy Park, the most popular are trampolines, a Ferris wheel, and a shooting gallery. The structure of the entertainment complex includes a beach, where in the warm season there are rental points for catamarans, sports equipment, an all-season ice rink (it has a children's section), a large number of sports, interactive playgrounds.

Dinoland

The entertaining paid platform is a part of the Sormovskiy park. It was created specifically 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 figures of dinosaurs are installed on the territory of the entertainment area. Near them and copies of the eggs of prehistoric animals, young fidgets love to take selfies. The figures are made of alloys of metals and polymeric materials, they look very realistic, the sculptures move and growl. All Dinoland exhibits were created with the participation of paleontologists, so 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 platform. Here, conditions are created for animals that are as close as possible to their natural habitat. In the zoo you can see porcupines, predatory felines, camels, fur seals, raccoons, hyenas, llamas, Japanese cranes, various parrots. Live in it and domestic animals (rabbits, goats, sheep), which can be stroked and fed.

Visiting the zoo is paid. The cost of tickets depends on the days of the week, it is highest on weekends. Girls, boys under 7 years old, and disabled children can see the inhabitants of the zoo for free. The best option for older visitors: the purchase of club cards. The latter allow you to buy tickets 3-4 times cheaper.

Wonderland Park “Galileo

The entertainment interactive complex is open daily; it is part of the all-Russian network of parks of the same name. The huge indoor pavilion “Galileo” impresses with its scale. The park consists of several thematic sections. Young fidgets can learn a lot about the laws of physics, take selfies near unusual objects of exposition, 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 variety of scientific fields. Colorful shows are regularly held here. The list of Galileo services includes the organization of children's birthday celebrations. According to the guests, residents of the city, the park has a pleasant atmosphere, where children of all ages feel confident, relaxed, 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 take pictures. The entertainment complex operates all year round; sports equipment rentals operate on its territory.

The park is famous for its rides, including roller coasters, homely cozy playgrounds. Its structure includes the Mysterious Island park, the Northern Blue winter skating rink, and a stationary dolphinarium. The dolphin show is always popular with visitors to the complex.

Swimming, communication with good-natured sea animals gives great joy to children. There is also a petting zoo in the park, where turtles, goats, raccoons, iguanas, rabbits, donkeys live.

Dolphinarium “Atlantis”

Located on the territory of the park named after May 1. The schedule of performances in it must be specified in advance. This advice also applies to booking tickets. Visiting a dolphinarium with a child can hardly be called a budget event (prices for photo and video shooting, additional services in an entertainment facility are European), however, if you don't take care of it in advance, you will find yourself without tickets.

In Atlantis, a young guest will be able to make his dream come true: swim with dolphins, celebrate his birthday surrounded by friendly inhabitants of the deep sea and make the most secret wish. Here you can sign up a child to attend dolphin therapy sessions if the young fidget has no contraindications for health reasons.

After communication (even for a short time during the show) with dolphins, the consequences of psychosomatic disorders, violations of the functioning of the nervous and mental systems of the body disappear in children, and their intellectual and physical development improves.

Park Switzerland

The recreation area in the Prioksky district is 100% similar in landscape to the picturesque corners of the Swiss cantons! It is noteworthy that the climatic conditions also coincide. Noisy attractions 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 on the autodrome.

In a clean, cozy park area, there is a zoo of the same name, where you can take pictures next to its inhabitants and animal sculptures. To date, it is partially open to the public, like many of the park's playgrounds. This is due to the fact that a large-scale reconstruction of many objects has begun. The 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.

Limpopo Zoo

Visitors compare one of the best zoos in Russia with a magical land. More than 200 species of rare birds and animals live here. The zoo has been in existence for less than 20 years. It began with the fact that 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 for free. The same benefit is provided to girls and boys from large families, children with disabilities. An important nuance: there are also family subscriptions in Limpopo. The zoo is divided into 2 territories, to visit each of them you need separate tickets or one general one.

Accompanying adults to allow children to enter its territory is a prerequisite. The zoo includes: the entertainment complex “Amazonia”, a tropical botanical garden, playgrounds with attractions, a pet store, an exposition of vintage motorcycles, a large number of small outlets with all kinds of sweets.

Museum of entertaining sciences “Quarks”

The unique space is located in the Hansa shopping center. “Quarks” includes 3 zones. Its exposition is devoted to the development of science in different eras of human existence: from ancient times to the present day. Physics and mechanics are not the only areas whose achievements children can learn about at 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 with visitors to the museum. Part of the space is intended for experiments with optical illusions, mechanical devices. Young researchers are given the opportunity to work with exhibits, check the operation of various devices, participate in interactive shows, and take pictures.

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 Giant's House

Museums with this name exist in different parts of Russia. In Nizhny Novgorod, an entertainment facility is open daily. The museum allows you to find yourself in incredible fantastic spaces. It consists of different sections, and the Giant's House is only one of its parts. Entrance to the fairy world for children under 4 years old is free. There are no age restrictions for rides, with the exception of the “Labyrinth of Fear” and the “Breaking Dishes” entertainment.

Selfies in the Giant's House are very popular. Pictures without the use of any special effects are very realistic. The same can be said about the photographs of the miracle house, which is located upside down. Wonderful space does not leave indifferent even adults. The most profitable way to visit the museum is to purchase single tickets, whose price includes the cost of all attractions.

Planetarium them. Grechko

The Digital Planetarium is open to visitors all days except Monday and Tuesday. For children, there are special programs, individual, 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 acquaintance with the planetarium with a sightseeing tour. An important point: in it you can admire the stars in any weather and watch the movement of heavenly bodies. Among the educational multimedia programs of the traditional planetarium, those dedicated to the solar system, planets and asteroids, and the search for contacts with extraterrestrial civilizations are popular. For little why children, the aerospace center “Attraction” operates at the institution.

The planetarium has its own concert venue, where colorful shows are regularly held for spectators of all ages. The building has a kiosk with space games for children and teenagers, books on astronomy, souvenirs, a cafe with sweets and always fresh pastries, which serve original dishes from the diet of astronauts, packed in special tubes.

Exotarium

An exhibition of exotic animals has been operating in the city for more than 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, he will be interested 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, Christmas balls were held.

The exotarium is open daily. For disabled children, children from large families, children 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. There is a pet shop at the exhibition, where you can buy a gecko, a maize snake, a tarantula spider or other amazing representatives of the world of fauna as a gift for a child.

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 be a real treat for him. The “pearls” of this collection of rarities are considered to be an ancient bronze mirror and a stone axe.

Among the exhibits you can see ancient 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 condition. Museum staff demonstrate to visitors how the technique so unusual for modern people worked.

It will also be interesting for young music fans to visit here and listen to records on the phonograph, gramophone, tape recorder. The museum contains cash registers, telephone booths, soda machines, motorcycles, mopeds, bicycles made in the times of the USSR. An important part of the collection are collections of watches and sets of German instruments created before World War II.

cable car

An amazing crossing across the Volga in the cold and warm seasons operates in different modes, so it is better to check the time of its operation on the Internet in advance. The cable car is very popular among the guests of the city, which Novgorodians who are already accustomed to it treat with humor. The project of the crossing was developed by French specialists.

It connected Nizhny Novgorod with the city of Bor (the district center of the district) and in just a few weeks from the moment it was opened, it turned into a fashionable tourist attraction. From the cabins of the cable car there is a stunning view of the river and its surroundings, famous historical and natural monuments.

Thanks to a ride on the cable car, you have the opportunity to see the architectural ensemble of the buildings of the Pechersky Monastery from a bird's eye view, the structure of the park of historical reconstructions. The latter is not a monument: it was created in our time! This is exactly what small towns on the outskirts of the mighty Roman Empire looked like 20 centuries ago.

Puppet Theatre

Many people compare visiting a puppet theater with a trip to a dream world. At the 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 created thanks to the Yavorsky spouses during their stay in Nizhny Novgorod.

The basis of the theatrical repertoire is classical productions of fairy tales loved since childhood: folk and author's. For school-age children, dolls conduct interactive performances-classes on the Rules of the Road. High school students in the theater have the opportunity to get acquainted with productions based on the works of Dante and other famous foreign authors.

The popularity of dolls 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 awaken in him an interest in Russian, foreign classics.