Muzeum Strašidel

Translates to ‘Museum of Horrors’ but it’s not exactly a museum, nor horrific… more like a storage unit for all the larger leftover holiday displays from Party City and any Halloween outlet store.
It took us a hot minute to find this place as it’s located within and underneath Hotel Central on the café side. There’s some creepy stuff, but the museum is definitely meant for small children, not adults, as we’d originally thought.
Lucky for my friend and I, the nice woman at the counter only charged us the children’s admission enter, which I think it was around $ 4 each, which for what he saw was def a bit steep, but my friend and I got a few jokes out how we got duped into coming here thinking it would actually be something cool and not a tiny tourist trap for tiny humans.
We took our sweet time and I still think we were in and out, having seen and played with everything, in under 8 minutes. There’s a small gift shop with little knick-​knacks of things you’d find at a dollar store. Little rubber finger puppet monsters, single candy packs, etc. We walked through the ‘horrors’ part of the museum which has kind of a compartmentalized haunted house, only the only the thing that’s scary is that it’s dark, they have a fog machine, and your glasses and camera lens will fog up as soon as you reach the pit of the stairs.
Full of dressed-​up novelty skeletons and a ‘spooky-​ish’ animatronic camel that I still don’t understand, but Czech isn’t my native language, so perhaps something was lost in translation.
The rest of the museum is like a grandmother’s attic filled with little toys and models and a mini play house and little theater room with hand puppets and coloring sheets on toddler picnic tables.
I guess we should have known it was for kids from the gift shop, but for whatever reason, it just didn’t register and then we felt like pedos going through when there was a family in the playroom (looking miserable) with their kids.
Now knowing that this place is meant for kids, I think a 3-​star is still pretty fair. The dark foggy area seemed like it would be way too scary for little kids, and the rest of the museum wouldn’t have been much of anything for anyone over the age of 4 to look at.
If you’re in the area and looking to terrify and/​or shut your toddler up for 30-​minutes to 45 minutes (if they latch onto the coloring pages) and willing to for over the $ 4-​$ 8 admission per person, this is your place. Also, it’s a stone’s throw from the Plzen tower, so if other members of your party are doing that climb, this might be a just fine place to hide out with kids.