- Place
- Kaunas City Municipality
- Region
- Kaunas
- Type
- writer and historian memorial museum
- Address
- 21 B. Sruogos Street, Kaunas
- Coordinates
- 54.90692, 23.95022
- Visit duration
- 60-90 minutes
- Best time
- Tuesday-Saturday; Thursday visits are possible until 19:00
Balys Sruoga Museum, Sruoga House
Three authentic family rooms
The ground floor reconstructs Balys Sruoga's study, Vanda Daugirdaitė-Sruogienė's study, and the sitting-dining room. The writer's room retains part of his library, typewriter, period-style desk, 1947 calendar, lamp, telephone, manuscripts, and portraits by several artists.
The historian's room contains part of her memorial library returned from the United States, family photographs, documents, maps, and personal belongings. Jonas Prapuolenis furniture and art by Adomas Galdikas, Antanas Žmuidzinavičius, Leonas Kazokas, and others fill the sitting room.
A house that travelled by rail from Samogitia
Young Berlin-trained architect Vladimir Zubov designed the modernist timber house in 1936. It was first erected at Būgiai Manor, owned by Vanda's father Kazimieras Daugirdas. In spring 1938 it was dismantled, carried to Kaunas by train, and reassembled in Žaliakalnis over the summer.
The family moved in during 1938 and lived together here until 1940. Horizontal boarding, restrained modernist proportions, and garden create a different impression from Kaunas's masonry villas. View it from street and garden while respecting the residential neighbourhood.
More than the author of Forest of the Gods
Balys Sruoga was a poet, playwright, prose writer, translator, theatre scholar, and author of the concentration-camp memoir Forest of the Gods. Imprisoned at Stutthof in 1943, he returned to Lithuania in 1945 and spent his final summer in this Kaunas house in 1947.
The museum deliberately presents a family rather than only a canonical author. Vanda Daugirdaitė-Sruogienė was a historian; daughter Dalia Sruogaitė became a theatre scholar and cultural figure. Upstairs literary displays connect their work with wartime separation and lives across different countries.
Opening hours and tours
On 21 July 2026, opening hours were Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday 09:00-17:00, Thursday 11:00-19:00, and the last Sunday monthly 10:00-16:00. Check admission and free-entry conditions before travelling.
Tours and educational programmes require advance booking on +370 644 15595 or through museum contacts. Allow 60-90 minutes independently. Students' Street is the useful bus stop; routes 3, 37, and 40 were listed, but check them on the day.
