Best Things to Do in Medellin with Kids

Medellin offers many kid-friendly places to share with the family. In the following article you will find the best things to do in Medellin: parks, museums, farms and many places to visit with children of all ages so that they can learn, have fun and an incredible day in Medellin. Options include free and paid child plans, in and outside of Medellin.

What are the best things to do in Medellin with kids?

Tourist sites for kids in Medellín

There are cultural sites in Medellín where children can meet, learn and enjoy. Enjoy Explora Park, Arví Park, Guatapé, Comuna 13, Planetarium, Water Museum, El Castillo Museum, El Salado Park and get on the metrocable.

1. Parque Explora

Parque Explora is an interactive science museum in Medellín, Colombia, and a symbol of social transformation through education. It is made up of an aquarium with an emphasis on the Amazon, a planetarium, a public experimentation workshop -Exploratory- and more than 300 interactive experiences for the social appropriation of knowledge. It is an ideal plan to go with the family, where both children and adults will enjoy in Medellín.

2. Parque Arví

The Arví Park is an eco-tourism proposal located in the Corregimiento de Santa Elena, created for the enjoyment of the entire local, national and international community. It is an open park developed on land for public use, which through the construction of an organized tourist offer, allows consolidating a strategy of conservation and promotion of the potentialities and strengths of the corregimiento, exalting its cultural and environmental wealth as well as the archaeological heritage, the silletera tradition, the entrepreneurship of its people and more, through a sustainable nature tourism proposal. It is an ideal place to visit with the family.

Website: https://parquearvi.org/

Recommended tours to Parque Arvi

• City Tour Medellin with Parque Arvi

3. Guatapé

One of the most visited towns in Antioquia is Guatapé. Located 75 kilometers from Medellín in the east of the Department. You will find the most beautiful and colorful town in Colombia, Piedra del Peñol with 740 steps, 220 meters high with spectacular views from the top. You can take a boat, boat or motorcycle tour where you can enjoy the dam to the fullest, do activities such as water skiing and get to know the magnificent landscapes of the Guatapé reservoir and its tourist sites. You can also tour this beautiful place by helicopter or bicycle. Children enjoy the trip to Guatapé a lot.

Recommended tours of Guatape:

• Guatape Tour, Piedra del Peñol Including a Boat Tour, Breakfast and Lunch
• The best private tour to Guatapé and Helicopter ride + Guatapé’s rock +Boat ride
• Private tour to Guatape + boat ride + paragliding flight
• Tour Guatape + Jet-Ski Ride
• Guided tour of Guatapé and 1 night of glamping by the lake

Recommended Hotels in Guatape

• La Pausa Hotelbistro
• The Boato Hotel
• Tau House
• Hotel Pietrasanta
• Joinn Houtel
• See all Guatape hotels

4. Comuna 13

Comuna 13 of Medellín is one of the places that you cannot miss on your visit to the city. The Graffiti Tour have become a must see. Commune 13 is a totally tourist site and it is really worth going to know it where you will find street art: graffiti, music, dances and street shows. Children can slide down the slides. You can taste delicious food and learn about the history of Colombia.

Recommended tours for comuna 13:

• Comuna 13 Tour + cable car tour
• Private City Tour Medellín + Metro Cable + Comuna 13
• Comuna 13 + exotic fruit tasting + cable car ride

5. Planetarium

Science museum with exhibits, planetarium dome shows, a cafe and gift shop. It is an ideal plan for children as it helps to understand the deep relationship that exists between the planet and life.

https://www.planetariomedellin.org/

6. Water Museum

The EPM Water Museum is a museum located in the Colombian city of Medellín, in the Parque de los Pies Descalzos. This museum is a place full of magic, a citizen space for culture and education where visitors can learn everything about the most precious vital resource: water. Children will learn about water in a fun way.

https://www.grupo-epm.com/site/museodelagua/

7. El Castillo Museum

It is the Museum with the largest collection of decorative arts in Medellín, a significant tourist attraction for lovers of culture, art and tradition. In a magical place for children, come and enjoy a delicious picnic while you learn.

Recommended museum tours in Medellin

8. Parque El Salado

Scenic destination with trails, activities, skateboard park, climbing wall, and playground. Get in touch with nature in this beautiful space surrounded by trees and with a stream along the park. Children and adults can do adventure activities such as climbing wall, skill tests and canopy.

9. Ride the metrocable

The Metrocable is one of the different public transports in Medellín that you must get on. It is an adequate means of transport to get to know the neighborhoods that are at the top of the city and appreciate the good view from the carriages. Children can get to know Medellín in a different way and it is an interesting and fun experience if they have never ridden a cable car before.

Parks and plazas in Medellín

There is no better plan for children than going to the parks and squares of Medellín. They are places highly visited by children and adults where you can enjoy the good weather, the city and appreciate art and a family day. In them you can find non-stop free fun.

1. Canal Parque Gabriel García Márquez

Wooded park with fish ponds, climbing walls, playgrounds, trails and picnic areas. Visitors will be able to enjoy natural spaces for recreation and recreation from Monday to Sunday between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. m. and 7:00 p.m. m.

2. Plaza Botero 

The Plaza Botero, is an open-air museum, which shows 23 bronze sculptures by the Colombian artist Fernando Botero. Surrounded by the Museum of Antioquia and the Rafael Uribe Palace of Culture, it is an outdoor park of 7,000 m². This square becomes a park that invites you to enjoy art. This open-air museum is an unmissable place when visiting Medellín with the family.

3. Parque de los pies descalzos

Park with a sand area, fountains and a green area with a garden, as well as an interactive science museum. The Barefoot Park is a thematic space created with the purpose of sensitizing its visitors “starting with their feet and ending with their spirit”. It is ideal for walking and relaxing. In the Park you will find specialized guides, who from their experience and knowledge will seek to take you through a magical world between nature and science.

4. Parques del Río

It is a park of 71,800 square meters of public space that integrates the city with its Medellín river. You can enjoy spaces full of nature and also cultural and gastronomic offers. There are different spaces to share with the family and give your pets a break. If you have children it is an ideal space for them.

5. Parque de los deseos

The Parque de los Deseos is a public space that offers a wide variety of free cultural activities for you and your family and friends to enjoy.

6. Medellin Botanical Garden

Living museum and scientific research center. Environmental classroom for education, recreation and civic culture.

7. Parque Aventura Escobero

If your children like the countryside and camping, this park is not to be missed. You find MX, Enduro, 4×4 tracks. Rental of motorcycles and quadricycles. Picnic and camping. Restaurant.

Water parks in Medellin

The water parks are great fun for children and very refreshing on hot days in Medellin. The best option for a day of family fun.

1. Aeroparque Juan Pablo II

The Juan Pablo II airport is the largest water park in the city, with spaces designed for the enjoyment of the whole family. We have seven swimming pools, seven slides and large green areas arranged for rest and recreation. It is one of the most fun activities for children in Medellín.

2. Parque de las aguas

Located in the municipality of Barbosa, it has a favorable climate for water attractions and outdoor activities. Its visitors enjoy the country atmosphere and the environmental education activities that promote the care of natural resources and sustainable development. It is an ideal plan for children if you visit Medellín.

3. Hacienda Nápoles Theme Park

The Hacienda Nápoles Theme Park has four slides: two outdoors and two dark ones, three jacuzzis, an old ship with six water cannons and a bridge crossing over floating lotuses await you. It is an ideal place to take children.

Fun activities with animals in Medellín

If you are looking for recreation places for children that include animals, visiting the Zoo and the butterfly garden in the Botanical Garden are some of the best options to interact with animals.

1. Conservation Park – Medellin Zoo

The Conservation Park is a space for the preservation of wildlife. In its facilities, hundreds of species find a refuge, a second chance for their lives; Many of the wild animals that are confiscated by the environmental authorities are received at the Conservation Park. Since 2020, the Park has been in a process of gradual change, seeking to become a living museum, a center for the appropriation of knowledge and research, which also carries out dissemination activities through education for the conservation of biodiversity.. https://www.parquedelaconservacion.com/

2. House of the Butterflies in the Botanical Garden

It is one of the largest butterfly farms in Antioquia, with an area of 581 square meters. It has a laboratory, a trail, a flight area where there are more than 31 species of butterflies, and a garden made up of nine species of plants.

3. La Granja City Farm

The safest and most fun children’s farm. Farm located in Tutucán Rionegro. It is one of the most fun places in Medellín for children of all ages.

4. Hacienda Nápoles Theme Park

We are one of the largest spaces for regional transformation in Colombia, after a difficult time for the country, as it became an environment for the conservation of species and a tourist attraction for adults and children. It is a development pole for the entire region, with a proposal based on environmental, cultural, knowledge and recreation content for the whole family. Discover some of our curiosities! Doradal. Municipality of Puerto Triunfo. Antioquia, Colombia Kilometer 165 of the Medellín Bogotá road.

5. Granja la Paturra

Via El Salado Ecological Park, Envigado, Antioquia.

Top attractions in the malls of Medellín for kids

1. Centro Comercial E Tesoro

In the El Tesoro mall you will find the Enchanted Treasure, Jumbalá, Gymboree Play & Music, Cinemark, Afterland, La Jaula del Ángel.

a. El Tesoro Encantado (Happy City)

Our Enchanted Treasure in Medellín is a magical corner, full of stories to tell and adventures to discover. Come live happy moments with the most incredible attractions in the city. It is one of the amusement parks in Medellín that you should know.

b. Jumbalá

Jumbalá is an adventure inspired by a magical jungle and opens its doors to provide a great experience for children between 0 and 12 years old.

c. Gymboree Play & Music

Gymboree Play & Music is the world leader in play classes for children ages birth to 5. An ideal place to take babies in Medellín.

D. La Jaula del Ángel

Five soccer fields with an urban atmosphere on the roof of the building. Three soccer fields five, a soccer field six and a soccer cage four. The concept is sold not only of soccer but of entertainment and meeting with friends. Its main purpose is to promote recreation and soccer. Our goal is not only soccer but training and meeting friends, the main purpose is recreation.

e. Afterland

Afterland is a laser tag, amusement and theme park, recreation and training center in Medellín.