The laboratory is equipped with the material didactic means, which provide the better understanding of the curricula. Sometimes these means are not transferable or they require the special conditions for operating with them. The first part the article shows the possible equipment, advantages and disadvantages of the laboratories. In the second part the authors discuss the questionnaire survey on the use and feelings in the laboratories. Up to 97,2 % of respondents said that the laboratories are used at the addressed schools for teaching the vocational subjects. The survey also shows that this method of teaching makes the teaching more useful, more appropriate and important. These laboratories are modernized at schools and school lesdership attaches the great importance to them, because the teaching in addition in close to the practice and makes the students immediately usable for the practical life.