The 10 Best Museums in Lithuania, Lithuania

May 11, 2022 Misti Hsu

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1. Museum of History of Lithuanian Medicine and Pharmacy

Rotuses a. 28, Kaunas 44279 Lithuania +370 37 201569 [email protected] https://www.muziejai.lt/Muziejus.en.asp?Db_kodas=2719&meniu=0
Excellent
89%
Good
10%
Satisfactory
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Overall Ratings

5.0 based on 140 reviews

Museum of History of Lithuanian Medicine and Pharmacy

Reviewed By ramintapan

Very interesting exposition, super helpful staff. Loved it. Authentic details, much to learn ant to be surprised.

2. Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum

Vilties g. 2, Anyksciai 29107 Lithuania +370 381 58015 http://www.baranauskas.lt/ru/left/apie-mus-1/siauruko-muziejus-1/
Excellent
83%
Good
14%
Satisfactory
3%
Poor
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Overall Ratings

5.0 based on 29 reviews

Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum

3. Atomic KGB Bunker

Raudondvario pl. 164a, Kaunas 47173 Lithuania +370 677 57736 [email protected] http://www.atominisbunkeris.lt/
Excellent
87%
Good
8%
Satisfactory
3%
Poor
1%
Terrible
1%
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5.0 based on 92 reviews

Atomic KGB Bunker

Information for Visitor Please, contact us in advance in order to visit the exposition. Collection There is the biggest collection of gas masks and closed-circuit breathing apparatus in the Baltic countries. All Lithuanian and German armies and other different countries gas masks. There is gathered an impressive collection of: generators, medical instruments, radios and etc. The Nuclear Bunker Museum presents the KGB bunker! This is unique collection featuring secret surveillance equipment and devices, used by the NKVD, the KGB and special divisions of militia. So far, we could only read in books about the KGB used tracking technology or see it in movies about James Bond. KGB power structures of the Soviet Union not only persecuted the common people, but completely mistrusted their own colleagues and spied on them in both formal and informal ways. The KGB, state security committees always possessed the latest and the most innovative technology and professionally trained specialists in their field, officers, and agents. Obsolete KGB surveillance technique used to be strictly destroyed by signing special reports, while part of the technology was transferred to the military. In the KGB bunker you will see secret equipment for intrusions and secret searches, KGB phones and phone eavesdropping and coding equipment. The museum has many clandestine and portable radio communication devices, radio transmitters and receivers, communications jammers, bearing finders, remote eavesdropping equipment, eavesdropping bugs and their detection devices. We will tell you about the unique secret metal detector for detecting eavesdropping equipment or a weapon with which you can come up near the person and embrace him. You will learn about detection equipment and instruments of isotopically marked documents, money, people, and animals. We will present external monitoring, night vision devices, secret dictaphones and recorders, covert mini cameras, masked undercover video recorders. You will find out what secret scanning, photographic and filming equipment was used for copying documents upon secretly sneaking into the room. The museum has a UV and IR device for detection of micro objects and many other intriguing and unseen items. It is important for us what questions people ask themselves after visiting the Nuclear Bunker, what fears worry them, and what they muse...

Reviewed By 275wiktorw - Vilnius, Lithuania

It’s one of the best places related to USSR history I have ever visit, never seen that much original souvenirs in one place. Highly recommended to visit this place for every history freak as I’m.

4. KGB Museum (Genocido Auku Muziejus)

Auku g. 2A, Vilnius 01113 Lithuania +370 646 27613 [email protected] http://www.genocid.lt/muziejus/en/
Excellent
57%
Good
33%
Satisfactory
8%
Poor
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Overall Ratings

4.5 based on 3,294 reviews

KGB Museum (Genocido Auku Muziejus)

Reviewed By Impavid574

A must-do visit if ever there was one. A tangible insight into the potential for man's inhumanity to man. The water torture cells were somehow the worst of it, but what jars is the fact that the building is in a city centre street which passers-by must have walked alongside while the unfortunates inside were enduring their nightmares. It helps give you an understanding of the very public way Lithuanians express their religious devotion - to get through the Soviet occupation and the Gestapo interlude must have required an extraordinary faith in the possibility of a better life. This is education in its rawest form and not to be missed

5. Gediminas Castle Tower

Arsenalo g. 5, Vilnius 01143 Lithuania +370 672 41279 http://www.lnm.lt
Excellent
47%
Good
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Satisfactory
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4.5 based on 3,557 reviews

Gediminas Castle Tower

This place is temporarily closed .

Reviewed By mer20172017 - Helsinki, Finland

From the top there’s a nice view of the City. We took the funicular to the top, but you can reach it by walking as well.

6. Rumsiskes Open-Air Museum

L. Lekavichiaus g. 2, Rumsiskes 56337 Lithuania +370 346 47392 http://www.llbm.lt/
Excellent
66%
Good
26%
Satisfactory
5%
Poor
3%
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4.5 based on 256 reviews

Rumsiskes Open-Air Museum

Open Air Museum of Lithuania is a unique and one of the largest (195 ha) open-air ethnographic museums in Europe. It has the biggest quantity of exhibits (90820 exhibits). The museum presents the mode of life, works, and traditions of peasants and townspeople of all Lithuanian ethnographic areas: Dzūkija, Aukštaitija, Suvalkija, Žemaitija and Lithuania Minor. It was established in 1966, in Rumšiškės on a picturesque coast of Kaunas Lagoon. There are fragments of the villages, authentic farms, century-old buildings with flower gardens, orchards and vegetable gardens, with crosses and wooden roofed poles, technical facilities - mills, forges, a fulling-mill and oil-mill lining along 7 km circular route, meandering between forests, meadows and hills. In the centre of the museum there is a fragment of a township with its typical buildings, where pots are shaped, amber and wood works are done and weaving process of linen is presented. The painful past of Lithuanian history is reminded in the sector of Deportation and Resistance. The guided tours, educational programs, calendar feasts, folk group concerts are being organized in the museum, horseback riding club.

Reviewed By LidijaM30 - Riga, Latvia

The Open-Air Museum of historical style of life of Lithuanians, the place where it is possible to bicycle and enjoy nature

7. National M. K. Ciurlionis Art Museum

V. Putvinskio g. 55, Kaunas 44248 Lithuania +370 37 229475 [email protected] http://www.ciurlionis.lt/
Excellent
66%
Good
23%
Satisfactory
8%
Poor
3%
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Overall Ratings

4.5 based on 182 reviews

National M. K. Ciurlionis Art Museum

Reviewed By PetraTre - Helsinki, Finland

I have never before been to a museum where a staff member comes to ask if I would like to hear music composed by the artist. The woman was very polite and advised me to sit down in the concert hall and listen to the symphony I had chosen. I spent about a half an hour listening to it. It was beautiful, and also relaxing after a long day. The artwork of Ciurlionis was touching and skillful, with many layers and interesting (also sad) themes. A great visit!

8. Lithuanian Sea Museum

Smiltynes g. 3, Klaipeda 93100 Lithuania +370 659 61497 [email protected] http://www.muziejus.lt
Excellent
66%
Good
21%
Satisfactory
9%
Poor
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Terrible
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Overall Ratings

4.5 based on 288 reviews

Lithuanian Sea Museum

Reviewed By 849daliam - Klaipeda, Lithuania

Renovated, interesting for young and old. Wonderful new aquarium with glass tunnel.And don't miss dolphins show.

9. Palanga Amber Museum

Vytauto g. 17, Palanga 00101 Lithuania +370 460 51319 [email protected] http://www.pgm.lt/
Excellent
58%
Good
32%
Satisfactory
9%
Poor
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Overall Ratings

4.5 based on 341 reviews

Palanga Amber Museum

Reviewed By gintarasc2018 - Vilnius, Lithuania

Musvt be seen to your visit in Palanga, ex cout palace, at the moment very exceptional Amber museum. Nice park with beautyfull flovers bordures

10. Holocaust Museum (The Green House)

Pamenkalnio g. 12, Vilnius 01114 Lithuania +370 5 262 0730
Excellent
58%
Good
29%
Satisfactory
8%
Poor
3%
Terrible
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Overall Ratings

4.5 based on 258 reviews

Holocaust Museum (The Green House)

Reviewed By MikaelF413 - Vantaa, Finland

There are many Jewish museums in Vilnius. The Green House has the Holocaust Exposition which tells the history of the Lithuanian Jews and their tragic death during the Holocaust in 1941-44. In front of the museum, you can find the monument for Chiune Sugihara who was the Vice-Consul for Japan in Lithuania during World War II. He helped several thousand Jews to leave the country by issuing transit visas to them.

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