The purpose of the visitor centre is to contribute to the protection of the Piusa caves and protected species by the year-round coordination and planned developing of tourism, also to provide the safety of the tourists visiting Piusa caves.
Piusa Visitor Centre houses a museum, a seminar room for 50 people, a cafe and handicraft room for children. We provide guiding services, educational excursions for schools, workshops and seminars. Next to the visitor centre you can find a quite unconventional children playground.
In the visitor centre you can:
take a virtual walk in the Piusa sandstone caves in the search of the altars located in the Museum cave by using a 3D computer model;
see AHHAA science centre exhibits;
watch movies about the creation of the caves and about protected plant and animal species;
take a closer look at the sands;
get acquainted with the living conditions of the bats;
compete in the exciting AHHAA cave game;
with pre-ordering make sand bottles and sand cards etc. by yourself in the handicraft room;
have a delicious meal in the Piusa cafe.
From October to April you can visit wintering bats in the closed observation platform of the Museum Cave!
Location: Pikk tn 56, Värska alevik, Setomaa vald, Võrumaa, 64001
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