Things to do in Prague for Teens

Check out our handy guide to ensure your teen won't get bored this vacation and get them involved in all the Prague fun!

UPDATED JUNE 2025By <a href="#author-bio">Stuart Bak</a>
By Stuart Bak
Tourist taking Picture

Kids today, eh? They don’t know they’re born. Show them the seven wonders of the world and they’ll shrug before getting back to whatever’s happening on their socials. Ok ok, that may be a slight exaggeration, but anyone with modern teenagers will know that they can be notoriously tricky to please (lthough, admittedly, that can probably also be said of all teenagers since time immemorial). Here’s the good news though: Prague has plenty to keep your teens and tweens entertained, from fairytale medieval clocks to 21st-century street art, and interactive museums to sweet and sticky Czech pastries. 

Young woman taking a selfie in Prague

Dive in to discover some of our favorite teen-pleasing Prague activities and attractions, including:

  • Magical medieval selfie spots
  • Petřín Hill funicular railway
  • Trampoline parks
  • The Museum of Senses
  • Escape rooms
  • Segway tours
  • Prague Zoo
  • The Lennon Wall

Scratch Their Insta Itch

Charles Bridge in the fog at dawn

The fastest way to get your kids interested in a new city is to take them on a whistle stop tour of some of its weirdest and most wonderful sights. And believe us when we say Prague has plenty of eye candy for the Insta-addicted teen snapper. We’re talking the extraordinary 15th-century astronomical clock on the fairytale Old Town Square, a massive kinetic sculpture of Franz Kafka’s head by Czech artist David Černý, the phalanx of yellow penguins waddling along the banks of the Vltava river at Kampa Park, and the 30-or-so baroque statues emerging eerily from swirling dawn fog on medieval Charles Bridge (assuming you can drag the kids out of bed before it clears). In short, it’s parenting the 21st-century way: through social media ‘likes’. Plus you get to do some essential Prague sightseeing while you’re at it. Win-win.

Sugar Rush

Woman holding trdelnik pastries in Prague

Make no mistake: Prague is a prime tourist destination. And tourists mean tourist traps, of which technicolor candy stores are one of the most ubiquitous. These are unapologetically designed to lure in kids (and weary parents) in search of a sugar fix. But they’re full of overpriced rubbish, and offer nothing you can’t find back home (tip: if the store name has the word ‘candy’ in it, it’s best avoided). Instead, hit up the local bakeries for authentic treats like trdelnik (rolled cinnamon donut), apple strudel, and palačinky: crepes crammed with sweet fillings of your choice, then rolled and topped with whipped cream. Healthy they ain’t, but boy are they delish!

Bounce Off Some Energy

Family at a trampoline park

And if all that sugar has your kids bouncing off the walls, lean into it and take them to one of the city’s trampoline parks to let them burn off some energy for an hour or so. There are several options around town, but JumpPark is the biggest and best, with several locations, hundreds of trampolines and opportunities to join in with dodge-ball, basketball, pugil-stick dueling, and stunt-diving.

Captivating Culture for Kids

The National Museum in Prague

There are several fine museums to entertain teens in Prague, many with strong interactive elements that will keep them talking about their experience for weeks afterwards. Older teens will thrill to the mighty National Museum’s Miracles of Evolution exhibition, where they can ogle whale skeletons and stare into the mouth of a viper. Its glittering Hall of Minerals ups the ante, with ancient fossils and fearsome models of prehistoric giants including mammoths and saber-toothed tigers. The nearby Museum of Senses wows with optical illusions, olfactory challenges, infinity mirror disco rooms, and dizzying vortex tunnels, while the Museum of Fantastic Illusions is guaranteed to give their camera phones another serious workout.

Put The Fun in Funicular

The funicular railway in Prague

Show us the tourist (of any age) who doesn’t get a kick out of riding the old-fashioned funicular railway up Prague’s Petřín Hill, and we’ll show you a liar. Now well over a century old, this family fave whizzes excited passengers up a steep incline through picturesque woodland, as expansive views of the Vltava and city beyond open up below. On top of the hill, you’ll find a pretty park, complete with landscaped gardens, an observatory, a mirror maze, and the famous Petřín Lookout Tower – an Eiffel Tower looky-likey with 360-degree panoramas across this city of several hundred spires.

Get Around on Two Wheels

Tourist riding a Segway in Prague

Keep boredom at bay with a sightseeing tour via Segway, scooter or e-bike. There are many tour options (and operators) available, with most taking in the likes of the castle district, Petřín Hill, the Lennon Wall and more. So, even if your teens find sightseeing more tedious than school, they’ll likely get a kick from the experience of riding a Segway over the ancient cobbles, or overtaking foot-weary fellow tourists as they speed effortlessly uphill for the best Vltava views.

Paint The Town Red

The John Lennon Wall in Prague

In a city full of eye-popping public art, the Lennon Wall in Malá Strana (Lesser Town) is perhaps the most famous. Take the kids on a tour of its ever-changing graffiti – much of it relating to global and local causes relating to politics and climate change and, yes, the former Beatle for whom the wall was named – then let them leave their own mark on the city. Check local listings for (entirely legal) graffiti workshops that include training, paints, and the opportunity to create a fun public family mural.

Animal Magic

A chameleon at Prague Zoo

What kind of kiddo doesn’t love a zoo? Good news: Prague has one of the best in the world, a 140-acre parkland out in the northern ‘burbs that’s home to – deep breath – Indian elephants, red pandas, gorilla, giraffes, gharials, fur seals, giant salamanders, Chinese pangolins, hippos, hyenas, lions and tigers, to name just a few. We’re talking not much shy of 6,000 animals across 70 species so, yeah, it’s plain to see why this is one of the popular Prague attractions for teens.

The Great Escape

Escape room lock and key

And, if all else fails, lock ‘em up and throw away the key! Like most cities, Prague has embraced the escape room concept, meaning there are several options to choose from. All you need to do is let the kids choose their theme. A malfunctioning nuclear reactor, haunted torture chamber and zombie apocalypse are likely to be most popular among older teens, but there are some fine family options too. Try the mind-melting time travel game at Mind Maze, or hit up Questerland for some of the finest Harry Potter-inspired fun in town.

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Stuart Bak
Stuart Bak
Freelance travel writer

Stu caught the travel bug at an early age, thanks to childhood road trips to the south of France squeezed into the back of a Ford Cortina with two brothers and a Sony Walkman. Now a freelance writer living on the Norfolk coast, Stu has produced content for travel giants including Frommer’s, British Airways, Expedia, Mr & Mrs Smith, and now Go City. His most memorable travel experiences include drinking kava with the locals in Fiji and pranging a taxi driver’s car in the Honduran capital.

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Prague’s Jewish Quarter should be considered an essential stop on any sightseeing itinerary of the Golden City. This former ghetto, also known as Josefov, has been in the same location since the 12th Century, when thousands of Jewish people from across Europe settled here, and the Old New Synagogue – a grand Gothic edifice still standing today – was built. Josefov has borne witness to devastating pogroms, wars, plague, fire, Nazi occupation and Communism down the centuries, though much of the area was lost to city restructuring in the early 20th Century. The surviving buildings can now be visited as part of the splendid Jewish Museum. Read on for our complete guide below. Jewish Museum: The Lowdown Prague’s Jewish Museum is formed of six historical monuments. These are: the Spanish Synagogue, the Pinkas Synagogue, the Maisel Synagogue, the Klausen Synagogue, the Ceremonial Hall and the Old Jewish Cemetery. Museum tickets also include entry to the Robert Guttmann Gallery but not the Old New Synagogue, which requires a separate ticket. As a whole, the museum boasts one of the largest collections of Jewish artifacts (or Judaica) on the planet. We’re talking some 40,000 objects, including textiles, prints, paintings, jewelry, and other items of Jewish ceremonial art, as well as a library of over 100,000 books from Bohemia and Moravia, some dating back as far as the 15th Century. The museum was established in 1906, but abolished during the Nazi invasion of 1939. Chillingly, the Nazis approved the museum’s re-establishment in 1942, by way of preserving the heritage of an ‘extinct race’. The communist regime took charge in 1950 and the museum entered a long period of stasis, during which time research, preservation and exhibitions were severely restricted by the state. 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Hours are generally 9AM-4.30PM between late October and late March and 9AM-6PM the rest of the time. You’ll find all the latest information on opening hours here. Jewish Museum: Highlights Maisel Synagogue This neo-Gothic confection was founded in 1592 and, along with the other monuments that make up the Jewish Museum, contains rare and unique Judaica. This includes ceremonial silverware and precious medieval textiles that help to illustrate the excellent permanent exhibition about Jewish life in Bohemia between the 10th and 18th centuries. Spanish Synagogue The most recent of the Jewish Museum’s six monuments, the Spanish Synagogue is perhaps also the most architecturally interesting. Completed in 1868, it eschewed the centuries-old trend for the gothic and baroque, instead leaning heavily into Moorish Revival style. 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