- Place
- Kaunas City Municipality
- Region
- Kaunas
- Type
- musicians' memorial museum
- Address
- 31 K. Petrausko Street, Kaunas
- Coordinates
- 54.90115, 23.93184
- Visit duration
- 60-90 minutes
- Best time
- Tuesday-Friday, 10:00-18:00, or Saturday, 10:00-17:00
Petrauskas House, Kipras Petrauskas Museum
The Petrauskas family apartment
The museum's core is the reconstructed home of opera singer Kipras Petrauskas and his wife, poet and actor Elena Žalinkevičaitė-Petrauskienė. A kitchen, corridor, and seven rooms evoke one artistic family's daily routine, work, and hospitality rather than an abstract period interior.
Look for the kitchen stove decorated with brass fittings, then for furniture, photographs, writing, and musical evidence in the rooms. Recordings introduce Kipras through sound as well as portraits, while Elena's poetry adds another family voice.
Brothers who shaped professional Lithuanian music
Composer Mikas Petrauskas was born in 1873 and his brother, opera singer Kipras, in 1885. Displays introduce Mikas's creative and teaching work alongside Kipras's stage career. Their lives illuminate a period when Lithuanian opera and professional music were still building institutions and audiences.
The interactive State Theatre: Music that Unites a Nation exhibition covers opera and ballet productions, conductors, performers, dancers, and musicians. It is a useful counterpoint to the apartment: private family objects in one part and the machinery of a large public stage in another.
A 1924 house within UNESCO modernist Kaunas
The two-storey masonry house was built in 1924 to a design by engineer Aleksandras Golovinskis. That year the brothers leased the plot from the city and began construction. Tulip motifs and balconies survive outside, with terrazzo stairs and other original details indoors.
In 2023 the house entered the UNESCO World Heritage property with Kaunas New Town and Žaliakalnis. Read it as part of the green slope, street pattern, and interwar residential district rather than an isolated villa. The exterior best reveals its decoration and relationship with nearby Oak Grove.
Opening hours and visit rhythm
On 21 July 2026, LIMIS listed Tuesday-Friday hours of 10:00-18:00 and Saturday 10:00-17:00. Exhibitions and events may have separate dates and charges, so check the Kaunas City Museum site or call the ticket desk on +370 696 75 737.
Allow 60-90 minutes, longer if you listen to recordings or join a tour. The entrance is at 31 K. Petrausko Street. The domestic scale makes rooms compact, so larger groups should arrange their visit in advance.
