Things to do in Kaunas, Kaunas County: The Best Specialty Museums

October 16, 2021 Margarita Chappel

Kaunas (/ˈkaʊnəs/; Lithuanian: [ˈkɐʊˑnɐs] ( listen); also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania and has historically been a leading centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the biggest city and the centre of a county in Trakai Municipality of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1413. In the Russian Empire, it was the capital of the Kaunas Governorate from 1843 to 1915. It served as temporary capital of Lithuania during the interwar period, while the traditional capital of Vilnius was part of Poland between 1920 and 1939. During that period Kaunas has been nicknamed the Little Paris because of rich cultural and academic life, fashion, construction of countless Art Deco, Lithuanian National Romanticism architectural style buildings as well as popular furniture, interior design of the time and widespread café culture. The city interwar architecture is regarded as one of the finest examples of the European Art Deco and received the European Heritage Label, it also resulted in naming Kaunas the first city in Central and Eastern Europe as a UNESCO City of Design. In 2022, Kaunas will be the European Capital of Culture, together with the Luxembourgish city of Esch-sur-Alzette.
Restaurants in Kaunas

1. Retromobile

S. Dariaus ir S. Gireno g. 29A, Kaunas 46270 Lithuania +370 612 46663 [email protected] http://www.retromobile.lt
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5.0 based on 2 reviews

Old cars, jeeps, trucks. Very interesting place, but not very high. Many inter-war historical photos and other exhibits. It is possible to ride in historical vehicles

2. 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
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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.

3. Atomic KGB Bunker

Raudondvario pl. 164a, Kaunas 47173 Lithuania +370 677 57736 [email protected] http://www.atominisbunkeris.lt/
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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. Museum of Illusions Kaunas

Karaliaus Mindaugo ave. 49 2nd Floor - 41 Place, Kaunas 44333 Lithuania +370 694 11052 [email protected] http://www.facebook.com/Muziejus2018
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Museum of Illusions Kaunas

It's fascinating. It's fun. It's sure to be surprising. Basically that's all you need to know about our fabulous museum.

5. National M. K. Ciurlionis Art Museum

V. Putvinskio g. 55, Kaunas 44248 Lithuania +370 37 229475 [email protected] http://www.ciurlionis.lt/
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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!

6. Sugihara House

Vaizhganto g. 30, Kaunas 44229 Lithuania +370 698 02184 [email protected] http://www.sugiharahouse.com
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Sugihara House

Chiune Sugihara memorial museum is an institution dedicated to commemoration of the deeds of Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara. He was working in Kaunas in 1939-1940 and is mostly remembered for saving more than 6000 Jewish refugees.

Reviewed By OlivierH1041

What Sugihara did was exceptional especially knowing that his honor and respect To his superiors could have been tarnished in his society. Remember that if his wife did not push and support him saving Jews, would Sugihara still have done it?

7. Stumbras Museum

K. Bugos g. 7, Kaunas 44328 Lithuania +370 37 308800 [email protected] http://www.stumbras.eu
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Stumbras Museum

"Stumbras Museum" gives an overview on the development of alcohol consumption culture in Lithuania and presents the role of the company in the process of industrialization. Visitors may get acquainted with the history of the distillery: century-old buildings, documents from archives and photographs. The exposition shows a collection of historical things related with "Stumbras" company including devices used in the process of production, labels and packing variety. A part of the museum is devoted to a room of Mykolas Velykis who was a co-owner of the distillery in the interwar period. The room is furnished following authentic traditions of those times. Visitors of "Stumbras Museum" have an exceptional opportunity to walk around the distillery and see how Stumbras' drinks are produced and bottled in present modern factory.

8. Lithuanian Sport Museum

Muziejaus g. 7-9, Kaunas 44279 Lithuania +370 37 220691 [email protected] http://www.lietuvossportomuziejus.lt
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Lithuanian Sport Museum

9. Kaunas City Museum Folk Music Branch

L.Zamenhofo Street, 12, Kaunas 44287 Lithuania +370 694 20643 [email protected] http://kaunomuziejus.lt/tautines_muzikos_skyrius/?lang=en
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Kaunas City Museum Folk Music Branch

The first and only museum in Lithuania dedicated to folk music culture. At the moment, it is a Kaunas City Museum Folk Music Branch. The museum contains exhibits from Lithuanian and international musical instruments to audio recordings, photographs, letters, and posters. In the interactive and modern exposition, you will be able to learn how kanklės (chordophone) are made, to sing a sutartinė (Lithuanian multipart song), play some instruments or hear some folk music performed by contemporary bands.

10. Old car museum

S. Dariaus ir S. Gireno g. 29A, Kaunas 46270 Lithuania +370 682 27122 [email protected] http://www.retromobile.lt
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Old car museum

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