Vacation with Kids in Omsk, Russia. What to Do on the Weekend in Omsk with Your Kids?

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Go for a walk along the Omsk Fortress, get to know the works of Vrubel, stop by a Cossack yurt, kick back and gaze up in a stars movie theater, take part in a performance, go ride down water slides in a water park, and check out a hippo and feed animals in a zoo. You can do all this with your children and more – we’ve got it all planed out for you in our review. 

 

 

 

Omsk Kids Museum

You can go for a tour at the Omsk Planetarium with children 6 years and up. There they tell kids about the solar system, planets, and constellations, and during the warm season they even let you look through the telescope of the planetarium. After the tour they also offer visitors to choose among a collection of real space souvenirs like comet fragments. 

They play movies about space in a dome-shaped movie theater at Zodiac Planetarium. At the shows there accompanied by music, they will tell you all about astronomy, the stars, and black holes. For children that are still young to go to school, they play a cartoon called Astronomy with Kids with Luboznaika and Volshebnik the gnomes. 

The exposition of the Omsk Natural History Museum resembles a street where various indoor home interiors are presented: a Russian and Ukrainian hut, a German house from the 19th century, and a Cossack yurt. In the archeological section, you can also check out the skeleton of a baby mammoth along with ancient treasures found in the Omsk Region. You are welcomed to try and work on a weaving loom as well. In addition, dioramas with inhabitants of forests, marshes, rivers, and steppes are presented in the ecology exposition where they tell you about animals and plants that are currently on the Endangered Species List.      

 

 

Presented at the Omsk Military Glory Museum is the history of various personal belongings, soldier and officer uniforms, weapons, and letters sent by warfront soldiers. In the various rooms of the museum, they tell children about the military accomplishments of Omsk natives in World War II and how they defended the city along with the part that Omsk soldiers took in the later battles at the “hot spots”. Located outside are 15 military technology exhibits: tanks, cannons, howitzers, a “katyusha”, and a zenith. If you want you are allowed to touch them and even climb on them.

You can find a peasant farmstead of the 19th century, peasant, houses, and other old-time constructions assembled in one places outdoors at Old-time Siberia. They offer visitors to go on dramatized tours through various restored homes. For example, in the home of a post-boy, the owner will tell you how a writer named Radischev stopped by and in the workshops, the kids will be unveiled the secrets of various traditional trades. On the holidays that organize festivities as well on the central square with traditional games, songs, and dances.   

You can get to know the works of Vrubel and other Russian and European artists at the Omsk Museum of Figurative Arts. In the collection of the museum are pictures and sculptures, works of various traditional craftsmen, and jewelry decorations. On Vrubel’s stage, they organize concerts as well and in the Picture Theater they do shows that include Omsk theater actors. They offer children and adults to come draw as well in the Art Center of the museum.

 

 

In the permanent exhibition of the Libers Center, they’ve presented various works of an Omsk artist and his understudies for your viewing pleasure. On the holidays and on Museum Night in the gallery, they do interactive tours, art workshops, and other events. They also accept kids into the art studio of the museum to create art and for schoolchildren of various ages they’ve prepared memberships with several tour programs with drawing lessons. 

You can find out how Dostoevsky’s life was in an Omsk prison and in Kazakhstan in the Museum of Literature. Assembled in the four halls are the personal belongings of the writers and copies of them and they also organize walking tours around the Old Fortress and Irtysh Shore. 

They tell the history of Omsk and Omsk Region theater better than anyone at the Theatrical Art Museum. Presented at the permanent exposition are the personal belongings of actors, old-time theater posters, sketches, decorations, and stage costumes. In addition, they do thematic temporary exhibitions there dedicated to a particular historical period of actors’ dynasty. 

 

 

Omsk Waterparks

Operating in the summer in Pirate Island Amusement Park are outdoor pools and water slides. On the “Family” Ride they let you ride even with preschoolers and on the extreme rides Hydrotube and Toboggan, they only let on teenagers and adults. You can also swim in two different pools: one that is 1.6 m deep and another “paddling pool” with a depth of 90 cm. On the beach play station near the pools you can go sun bathing as well and play badminton or volleyball. 

The water park at Politotdel Vacation Resort is open year-round. Their rides Toboggan, Hydrotube, Free Fall, and Multislide are suitable for adults and older kids and for children they have two slides in the kids pool. You can also jump off of a rope swing into a pool with a water fall. In addition, Politotdel has an outdoor water zone that operates during the summer with a slide, a kids trampoline, and lounge chairs and they also have an animal corner with a pony, roe deer, peacocks, and a pelican.    

 

 

The indoor Skazka (Fairy Tale) Waterpark is in operation year round in the aptly-named complex located outside Omsk. It features a large swimming pool and a kids pool with a fountain, two slides, and a recreation zone with lounge chairs.

 

Omsk Zoos

The largest zoo in the Omsk region is the Bolsherechensky Zoo, located 200 km out of the city. Assembled there are about 800 exhibits: Amur Bay tigers and leopards, Himalayan and polar bears, baboons, grass monkeys, Dalmatian pelicans, emu ostriches, and many other birds and animals. They also have a reptile house with a Nile crocodile and an anaconda from the Amazon. On top of that, the Bolsherechensky Zoo houses hippos that you won’t be able to find in any other zoo in Siberia. 

There are about 400 species of animals and birds inhabiting the Kids Zoo. In the animal cages you can see kangaroos, pygmy marmosets, lamas, scavenger birds, and in the reptile house you can see snakes, turtles, lizards, and insects. In the petting zoo they also let you feed and pet a little donkey, goatlings, sheep, and piglets. Furthermore, they have a kids play station there and the first fountain in Omsk, which was built in the year 1911. 

Sea Tale Aquarium is open to visitors in the out of town complex Skazka. In the pier there you can see sharks, eels, and coral reef inhabitants and in the freshwater hall you can see ray piranhas, catfish, and other inhabitants of the Amazon and African lakes. Sea Tale also features a reptile house with snakes, a Nile crocodile, and turtles. 

 

 

In the summer of 2014, Skazka Complex opened up a zoo exhibition where some of the inhabitants of the Bolsherechensky Zoo migrated over from. There you get to look at hunting tigers, lions, foxes, lynxes, and in the petting zoo they let kids feed and pet domesticated animals and birds. 

 

Amusement Parks and Places to Take Your Kids on a Walk in Omsk 

You can go for a walk along the shore of the Irtysh and follow a pedestrian tour at the Omsk Fortress. Part of the fortress walls has been restored, but there are also some original walls still standing that are now under historical reconstruction. 

A Ferris wheel, swings, and other attractions operate in the summer in Green Island Park. During the warm season a wake park opens up, bicycle rental, and a row boat station. During the holidays, the park paves skiing courses, they build an ice rink, and they put up a big New Year’s tree near the main stage.   

 

 

At All-Union Leninist Young Communist League 30 Year Anniversary Culture and Recreation Park, an amusement park opens up in the summer as well with roller coasters, carousels, a Ferris wheel, and a row boat pool. You can ride a pony down one of the roads there and there is also a pedestrian zone organized near the pit. Also located near the attractions is a kids play station. 

You can also take your kids for a walk at Pobeda ParkSovetsky Park, and the Garden in the Name of Kirov where they have play stations and bicycle trails. Between April and October, they do walking tours around the Dendrological Park.

 

Kids Shows in Theaters around Omsk 

They do puppet shows for kids at Harlequin Theater. The smallest of children are invited for game shows that viewers take part in (they have about ten total in their repertoire). For a little bit older kids they perform Russian and European fairy tales and if you like you can also go see the Japanese “Legend of Fuji Mountain” and the ancient Egyptian story of The Three Fates of the Pharaoh’s Son. Older kids and adults are invited to come see performances, such as Revizor and Viy by Gogol and Romeo and Juliette and A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare. During the intermission, they invite the viewers to spend a little time in the theater museum with puppets and decorations. 

 

 

Kids would enjoy embarking in a magical journal in the Omsk Youth Theater. Viewers get the chance to take off to Africa with Dr. Doolittle, the Indian jungle with Mogly, and Sweden with the troublemaker Emil from Lonneberga. For smaller children they perform shows there, such as Zaika-zaznaika, the Tale of the Onion, the Boldly Buzzing Fly – they all go for a maximum of one hour. 

They present the stories of Tom Sawyer, Neznayka, and Alena’s Flower at Litseysky Theater. If you have preschoolers, you should consider checking out the musical Flying Ship, the Magic Flower, and With the Wave of a Wand. If you have a little bit older kids you should consider Cold Heart as written by Hauff.   

They do several kids shows at the Fifth Theater. Preschoolers would like shows like Kotobasia, the Funny Stoplight, and the Magic Showman.

The Music Theater features kids musicals in their repertoire. You could take your whole family to watch traditional Russian fairy tales and stories about Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Chipollino, Cinderella, Carlson, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. They also invite you to come check out the costumes of various actors and stage props in the museum at the theater. 

You can take your kids to the Omsk Drama Theater on a school program. There they perform Lady Macbeth of Mtensk by Leskov, Cherry Garden by Chekhov, Forest by Ostrovsky, and Run by Bulgakov. 

 

 

They give out kids passes for listeners between the ages of 3 and 13 and the Omsk Philharmonia. In the Concert Hall they do developmental concerts for kids and they also do fairy tale musicals there and tell entertaining stories from the lives of great composers. In the Organ Hall for amateur musicians they do Neznaika’s Lessons and special program kids concerts for listeners between the ages of 7 and 15. 

 

Kids Entertainment in Omsk 

Open in Omsk Malls are kids arcades with racing games, videogames, air hockey, racing, and a maze with a dry pool for kids. Entertainment center N Terra is located in Mega MallMagic Park is located in Triumph MallKosmomaks is located in Continent MallSafari Land is located in Atrium MallNinth Kingdom is located in Euro Park, and the aptly named Flagman Kids Entertainment Center is located in a mall of the same name. 

 

 

You can find out about family events for every day on our Omsk events guide.

 

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