Information from Ostrava Zoo

What else Ostrava Zoo offers its visitors?

  • about 350 animal species in 3000 specimens bred at area of 100 ha
  • children´s contact zoo, children´s playgrounds and attraction refreshments, train trip, souvenirs from zoo
  • barrier-free access to all pavilions, toilets for disabled people, elements for the blind

What you should not do at Ostrava Zoo?

  • Enter the grounds with dogs or other animals
  • Enter the area with toy balloons
  • Feed, disturb and tease animals. Feeding restrictions do not apply to pellets sold via vending machines and designed for selected groups of animals
  • Climb over rails and walk outside marked visitor paths
  • Move around with the use of bicycles, skates, skate-boards, scooters and ride-on toys

Opening hours

November, December, January
9,00 – 16,00

February
9,00 – 17,00

March, September, October
9,00 – 18,00

April – August
9,00 – 19,00

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How to get here

Public transport

  • Trolleybus: Line 101 (departs from Hlavni nadrazi, i.e. the Main Railway Station)
  • Trolleybus: Line 104 (departs from Namesti republiky)


By car

GPS: 49°50'36.688"N, 18°19'10.615"E

Motorway: turn off at exit 365 Ostrava - Hrusov.

Visitors coming by car can make use of any of the zoo’s three car parks.

On foot

You can also get to the zoo by following a new public footpath created by the Czech Tourist Club. Starting at the tram stop at Cerna Louka, it takes you via Silesia-Ostrava castle, a recultivated refuse site named Ema and on to the zoo.