Location: Vilnius
Top Things to do in Vilnius
Top 10 History Museums in Vilnius, Vilnius County
Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, contains one of the largest surviving medieval quarters in Europe. Included on the UNESCO World Heritage List, Old Town contains almost two thousand medieval, gothic, renaissance, and baroque buildings, all centered on the neo-classical cathedral and town hall. Other popular attractions include the KGB Museum, located in a former Soviet prison, and the 13th century Higher Castle, which affords a glorious view of the city center.
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1. Samuel Bank Museum
2. Culinary Heritage Museum of Lithuania
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5.0 based on 4 reviews
The museum presents more than 25000 exhibits. You will discover the culinary heritage of Lithuania by traveling into the culinary traditions of various times (18th to 20th centuries mostly).
3. The Venclova House Museum
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5.0 based on 12 reviews
Museum exposition reflects the everyday life of Lithuanian intelligentsia in Vilnius in the 40s and 50s of the 20th century. Many enlightened persons of Lithuania visited this house and associated here. Tomas Venclova, the poet, essayist, spacious-mind publicist, professor of Yale University (USA), grew up here, surrounded by the things exposed in the museum.
4. Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas Memorial Apartment-Museum
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5.0 based on 2 reviews
Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas (1893–1967) – famous poet, playwright, prosaist, translator, professor of literature science, one of the most celebrated Lithuanian writers of the XXth century. Museum collection consists of authentic things that belonged to V. Mykolaitis-Putinas in three memorial rooms (the study, the parlor and the sleeping-room) where the authentic atmosphere is restored.
5. Cold War Bunker
6. Gediminas Castle Tower
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4.5 based on 3,557 reviews
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.
7. Holocaust Museum (The Green House)
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4.5 based on 258 reviews
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.
8. Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum
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4.5 based on 151 reviews
The Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum is the only Jewish museum in Lithuania. Currently it has three open exposition sites: the Tolerance Center, the Holocaust Exposition and the Memorial Museum of Paneriai. Each of the sites is located in a venue of historical importance for the Jewish community. The indicated working hours are of the Tolerance Center, which hosts unique judaica and art exhibits, permanent and temporary exhibitions. For the working hours of the Holocaust Exposition and the Memorial Museum of Paneriai, please visit our website.
Reviewed By Hawk470 - Baltimore, United States
Named for the foremost non-Hasidic religious leader of his time, the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum includes several locations – the Tolerance Center, the Holocaust Exposition (nearby), and the Memorial at Paneriai. This review covers the Tolerance Center which includes Judaica, historical exhibits and art galleries. The museum has something for everyone. We particularly enjoyed the section on the history of Jewish life in Lithuania illustrated with paintings and photographs accompanying very informative and well-written text. The exhibit of Bartosz Fratczak’s photographs of the remaining traces of vanished Jewish communities in Lithuania’s more rural localities evokes these lost worlds with exquisite and tragic black and white photographs and captions. The most revelatory section was certainly the exhibit of the paintings of Samuel Bak, a Vilnius-born artist, who held is first exhibit as a nine-year-old in the Vilnius Ghetto. His paintings display very fine brush technique and a powerful eye for detail in horrific and beautiful scenes. A number of the paintings have a surreal, almost Dali-esque sensibility, but without the preciousness and lack of emotional resonance that those terms imply. Samuel Bak’s work is as deeply emotional and profoundly thought provoking as it is magnificently rendered. Take your time with his paintings. They draw you in and as you look, you see layers of detail reminiscent of the finest early Renaissance paintings with their subjects in the foreground and narrative details embedded in the background. Be sure to watch the video about his life and work and how his life, including how he survived the Holocaust, illuminates his work. If you like to walk, the route from the Choral Synagogue to the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum and then to the Holocaust Exhibition (The Green House), will give you an informative and moving introduction to Jewish life in Lithuania past and present. The total walking time, one-way at a relaxed pace, is under half an hour.
9. Centre for Civil Education
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4.5 based on 21 reviews
The Centre for Civil Education is a modern education centre. Here, visitors can get the most important insights about the functioning of a democratic state and citizens engagement possibilities. To make the process of exploration even more interesting, visitors are encouraged to dive into interactive exhibitions by contributing to their content while using tablets and virtual reality tools. In 2018 a new exhibition Unforgettable Futures: Visions for Lithuania’s Centenary was opened. The most interesting and unexpected ideas of Lithuanian visionaries here are presented while creating an immersive environment, using breath-taking visualisations and audio tracks.
Reviewed By dsssssssss9
This is a free museum that shows how the current democratic state of Lithuania came into being as well as how citizens can/should participate. Goes into the history of Lithuania, it's struggles with various invaders , the fighters both physical & ideological who finally over came the ruling state ( russian) to set up the country & political landscape of modern Lithuania. Sounds boring but in fact it is a very well thought out modern museum that utilises to great effect both classic exhibits as well as some augmented reality to enhance your visit . A lot of the exhibits have a sort of QR code next to them , which when scanned with the tablet ( supplied at no cost during your visit ) provide not only translation for non Lithuanian speakers but extra details & audio / visual displays . Some of the exhibits I found extremely moving ( The Baltic Highway for example) A very good museum , quite unlike any I have been to before .
10. Telia Nemuziejus
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4.5 based on 48 reviews
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