Museum of Games and Computers of the Past Era

What to expect

The Museum of Games in Wroclaw, officially Muzeum Gry i Komputery Minionej Ery (the Museum of Games and Computers of the Past Era), is a museum where vintage hardware is not just for looking at: on many of the exhibits you can simply play. It occupies the right wing of the Dworzec Świebodzki station building on pl. Orląt Lwowskich.

The exhibition brings together the history of video games and the history of computers and computing. You will see hardware from the history of computers and games, including tall arcade machines, and the games are also shown on classic cathode-ray tube (CRT) television sets. The museum aims for both educational value and fun, and it limits the number of visitors so that everyone can look at the hardware and play on it in comfort.

Visitors rate the museum very highly: on Google Maps it has 4.8 out of 5 from 2923 reviews (read on 25 October 2026).

Who it suits: the museum itself addresses two groups - those who remember the hardware of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and younger visitors who want to find out how people played in the old days. That makes it a good choice for families: children up to the age of 15 may only come in with an adult, and the museum sells a family ticket for two adults and two children. School groups are usually welcome from Tuesday to Friday.

Who should skip it: people sensitive to rapidly changing light - the museum itself warns that both the games and the CRT television sets may flicker. Skip it too if you want to walk in at any time and stay as long as you like: visits here run in rounds of a fixed length.

How long: the length of your visit is set by the round, which lasts 1 hour 45 minutes. So allow about two hours, including buying a ticket and getting in before the round starts.

Tips

• Buy your ticket in advance. You can buy a ticket at the entrance or through the museum’s online sales system. Individual visitors do not need to book, but the museum strongly recommends it, because the number of visitors per round is limited.
• Arrive for the start of a round. Rounds begin every two hours, with short technical breaks between them. If you are late for the start, you cut your own playing time, so plan your arrival around the start of a round.
• Saturday with an evening round. On Saturdays the museum stays open longer (on Saturdays 10:00-20:00) and adds an extra evening round. Remember too that in an ordinary week the museum is closed on Mondays.
• School holidays and festive seasons. During school holidays and festive seasons the museum is sometimes open on different days of the week than usual, so check the calendar on its website at those times.
• Concessions and the family ticket. Prices: standard ticket 40 PLN (about 9 EUR), reduced 30 PLN (about 7 EUR). Reduced tickets are for children up to 18, people aged 60 and over, and people with disabilities and their carers. The museum also sells a student ticket and a 2+2 family ticket (prices in the museum’s price list); for two adults with two children the family ticket works out cheaper than two standard and two reduced tickets.
• Beware of flickering light. The games and the CRT television sets may flicker, and the museum explicitly warns people sensitive to such stimuli.
• Wheelchairs: steps at the entrance. A few steps lead up to the museum on the raised ground floor. Inside you can get around in a wheelchair and use most of the interactive exhibits, except the tall arcade machines.
• Dogs allowed. The museum admits visitors with dogs.

Getting there

• Address: pl. Orląt Lwowskich 20a, in the Dworzec Świebodzki station building - the museum is in its right wing, behind the last door of the station building.
• Tram and bus: according to the MPK Wrocław timetable, the nearest stop is “Dworzec Świebodzki” (about 84 m), served by trams 20 and 23, buses 106, 148 and 149 and night buses 206 and 249. About 142 m from the museum is the “Pl. Orląt Lwowskich” stop: trams 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23, buses 106, 122, 127, 144, 148 and 149 and night buses 206 and 249.
• From the railway station: the museum recommends tram 23 from the main PKP railway station, which according to the timetable stops at both of the stops named above.
• By car: there is a paid municipal car park right under the museum’s windows; according to the museum, two hours of parking is enough for a visit, which matches the length of one round.

Background

Today the museum occupies a wing of the Dworzec Świebodzki station, but it grew out of a passion, not out of an institution. According to the museum, it was created by four enthusiasts of old games and hardware who had been active as the RetroGralnia initiative since 2011.

The museum opened on 2 September 2017 in the Dworzec Świebodzki building - the date given by the Polish Wikipedia. The museum presents itself as the first in Poland devoted to both video games and the history of computers and computing.

In April 2021 Radio Wrocław reported that after a year of the pandemic the museum was in serious trouble; this is what its founder, Jakub Rzepecki, said. The museum is still running: in autumn 2026 its Google Maps listing was collecting reviews only a few days old.