Museums in Lithuania - page 3

Tauragnai Regional Museum is a branch of the Utena Regional Museum in Tauragnai. It began in 1971 as a memorial museum for poet Teofilis Tilvytis and was reorganized around 2000 as a broader local-history museum. It presents the Tauragnai area from 1261 onward and stands near Lake Tauragnas, Lithuania's deepest lake, and Taurapilis Hillfort.

Taurai Adventure Park operates on Tauragės Dvaro Street, within Taurai village and the former Tauragė manor area. Its current website lists six colour-coded treetop courses totalling 6 km and rising from 1 to 16 metres. Each has its own age and height threshold, from the yellow course for children aged five and over 110 cm to the black course for visitors aged 14 and over 155 cm. The 2026 climbing season began on 1 May; advance booking is required, and the last practical starting time must be confirmed with the park. The present menu also includes hill tubing, Tinklų kiemas, the ORE trampoline room, a sensory trail, ground-level summer cottages, and rentable celebration spaces, but older tourism listings are not a reliable inventory of what operates today. A copy of Google rating data dated March 2026 showed 4.7 out of 5 from roughly 1,500 reviews.

The Tauro District Partisans and Deportation Museum in Marijampolė tells the history of the 1945-1952 partisan war in Suvalkija and Soviet deportations. Founded in 1993, the museum displays partisan weapons, documents, and photographs, and includes a reconstructed NKVD and KGB interrogator's office and prison cell.

Telšiai Yeshiva, founded in 1875, became one of Eastern Europe's most important Talmudic study centres; Rabbi Eliezer Gordon modernized its teaching from 1884.

Thomas Mann Memorial Museum in Nida operates in the Nobel Prize laureate's summer house, built in 1930 on Mother-in-Law Hill, where the Mann family spent the summers of 1930-1932; it is one of the most visited museums in western Lithuania.

Toy Museum Vilnius traces Lithuanian play and childhood from archaeological interpretation and a Stone Age learning environment to ethnographic material and original twentieth-century toys. It is a museum rather than a playroom: families explore protected objects alongside carefully chosen copies and reconstructions that may be handled and tested.

Since 2015, the Traditional Crafts Centre has occupied the protected seventeenth-century house built by the Scottish merchant Jonas Arnetas, or John Arnot, beside Kėdainiai's Great Market. Certified makers lead small-group sessions in band braiding, ceramics, wickerwork, woodcarving, and other crafts, while folk-art exhibitions share the building with surviving timber galleries, a vaulted cellar, a domed historic kitchen, and a rare vaulted privy. Ordinary admission is free, but hands-on programmes must be booked and paid for separately.

The central display at Ukmergė Local History Museum follows the region from prehistory and the Middle Ages through the political ruptures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Archaeology, ethnography, old religious sculpture, photographs, and documents are combined with interactive interpretation and a children's archaeology room. The museum occupies the renovated Draugystė cinema of 1959, while its institutional story reaches back to Scout collections formed in 1933 and the town museum opened on 6 May 1944.

UNO Park operates in a pine forest in central Druskininkai, at 22 Maironio Street beside the Nemunas and roughly 200 m from the aqua park. The operator's current Druskininkai page distinguishes four colour-coded general obstacle courses, a nine-flight ZIP course, four colour-coded children's courses, a net course for the youngest visitors, a 400 m Flight over the Nemunas, and the 21 m Drambliaskrydis giant swing. This is not the same inventory as the older resort listing that still describes six adult courses and a black course, so a visit should be planned from the operator's current menu. On 21 July 2026, standard tickets cost EUR 20-25, extreme packages for school pupils, students, and adults cost EUR 30-35, and ticket time ranged from 1 hour 30 minutes to 2 hours 30 minutes. A public copy of Google data on the same date showed 4.9 out of 5 from 881 reviews, although a rating is neither a safety audit nor a permanent figure.

Utena Regional Museum is the main museum of the Utena area, housed in a historic merchant's building beside Utenio Square, where the first Utena municipality operated in 1918. Founded in 1929, it holds about 78,000 exhibits, presents regional history from the fifteenth century, and unites six branches across the district.

The Užgavėnės Mask Exhibition in the Plateliai manor stables is Lithuania's first museum exhibition dedicated to Užgavėnės. It holds more than 300 Samogitian masks, called lėčynos, and explains the living festival tradition with Lašininis, Kanapinis, and Morė in Žemaitija National Park.

The Vanda Kavaliauskienė Cat Museum in Šiauliai grew from a small black wooden cat received in 1962 into a collection of approximately 5,000 objects. Across three refurbished galleries, cats appear as porcelain and wooden figures, paintings, prints, tableware, toys, stamps, books, and everyday objects from many countries. Real cats also live at the museum, while a separate animal collection within the same Young Naturalists Centre complex houses reptiles, birds, and small mammals.

Venclauskiai House-Museum in Šiauliai is a refined interwar urban house and a civic-memory site for the Venclauskiai family. The building designed by Karolis Reisonas preserves layers connected with Kazimieras Venclauskis, the first mayor of Šiauliai, more than 100 fostered children, authentic interiors, and the Orphans' Garden.

Viaduko Gallery is not a building with an exhibition hall but a working pedestrian bridge over the railway at Kazlų Rūda, where rotating outdoor exhibitions have occupied the orange steel structure since 2022. The official attraction page describes twelve pictures on double-sided panels, individual lighting, and approaches from V. Borisevičiaus and Esperanto streets. In 2024 the bridge display joined works along Vytauto and V. Borisevičiaus streets to form an approximately 2.2 km route, but the reported total of ninety works referred to the whole city gallery at that stage, not the bridge alone. Displays change, so visitors should check the official map for the current artist rather than expect an older exhibition.

Viekšniai Biržiška Family Memorial Museum is housed in the recreated home of the famous Biržiška family near the Viekšniai church. Three professor brothers were born here: Mykolas, Vaclovas, and Viktoras Biržiška; Mykolas signed Lithuania's Act of Independence of February 16, 1918. The memorial exhibition belongs to Mažeikiai Museum, and the town library also operates in the house.

Viekšniai Pharmacy Museum is Lithuania's only rural-type pharmacy museum: an authentic pharmacy founded in 1860 in an eighteenth-century house, with the prescription room Oficina, the pharmacist's family apartment, a handwritten history of the pharmacy, and a restored medicinal-herb garden.

The Vilnius Museum of Illusions is an interactive museum that opened on Vokiečių Street in 2016. Its 600-square-metre exhibition combines optical illusions, physics, perspective, installations, and historical visual tricks. Visitors do more than look: they paint with light, create shadows, change the camera angle, and become part of the exhibit. On July 21, 2026, the exact Google Maps listing showed 4.7 out of 5 from approximately 4,700 reviews.

Vilnius Picture Gallery on Didžioji Street traces Lithuanian art from portraits of the Grand Duchy to the Vilnius Art School and nineteenth-century artists educated abroad after the university closed. It occupies Chodkevičiai-Pusłowski Palace, whose present late-Classical appearance dates principally from the reconstruction of 1825-1834. Authentic tiled stoves, fireplaces, stucco, and polychromy meet period furniture, applied art, and a changing programme of exhibitions.

Vilnius Railway Museum, whose institutional history dates from 1966, operates in the passenger building of Vilnius railway station. Together with the outdoor Track Park, it tells the story of Lithuanian railways, stations, journeys, rolling stock, drivers' work, and railway technologies.

The Vincas Grybas Memorial Museum in Jurbarkas occupies the sculptor's authentic homestead with workshop, forge, and bathhouse; Grybas was one of Lithuania's major interwar monument makers and was executed by the Nazis in 1941.

The Vincas Kudirka Museum in Kudirkos Naumiestis, a branch of the National Museum of Lithuania in a 1998 building by architect A. Ambrasas, tells the story of Vincas Kudirka (1858-1899): physician, editor of Varpas, and author of Tautiška giesmė. It operates beside the town square with Kudirka's 1934 monument by V. Grybas.

Vinetu Village in Šlikiai is a privately created Lithuanian themed venue where tipis, tall wood carvings, a collection assembled over more than fifteen years, and active challenges frame a story about the Indigenous cultures of North America. General admission covers independent exploration of the grounds and collection; a booked programme adds narration, archery, spear throwing, and a guided activity inside a tipi. Google Maps rated the venue 4.6 out of 5 on 13 July 2026.

The Vintage Motorcycle Museum in Rapaliai village near Telšiai is Albinas Monstavičius' private collection at the Auksinis elnias homestead, displaying only working motorcycles made before 1945. It is often described as the largest museum of its kind in the Baltic states.

Višakio Rūda Museum of Everyday Life is Valdas Arbašauskas's private collection in a low timber cottage at 10 Ąžuolo Street. Kitchen utensils, footwear, musical instruments, furniture, farm tools, and woodworking implements donated by local people share the rooms with the founder's handmade models of the village church and spring chapel. This is not a municipal branch and it has no published daily schedule, so every visit must be arranged in advance.

Vištytis Windmill is a wooden cap windmill built in 1925 by local resident Jonas Kanapkis on Ilgasis Hill. It is the only windmill in Lithuania to have preserved its full authentic technological equipment. Restored in 2019-2020 with recreated sails, it now functions as a small museum and viewing tower near Lake Vištytis and the Kaliningrad-Poland borderland.

The Vladas Statkevičius Museum in Šilalė is the local-history museum of the Šilalė area, presenting the town's history and the material and spiritual culture of Samogitians. It grew out of a local-history society branch founded in 1962 and in 2006 was named after teacher and local historian Vladas Statkevičius, whose collected material formed the museum's basis. Its collections hold more than 24,000 archaeological, historical, numismatic, and ethnographic exhibits.

Vokiečių 6 is more than an address: it is the official name of a Vilnius City Museum branch. Until 2025, the venue was known as the Vilnius Museum. It became one of four exhibition branches when three municipal museums joined the wider institution. There is no fixed city-history gallery here. Instead, two or three exhibitions each year use research, residents' memories, and current urban questions to examine Vilnius. The branch remains in temporary premises, while a permanent introduction to the city is planned for the future Kirdiejai Mansion. Visitors must check both the programme and installation closures before travelling.

Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art is a branch of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, not an independent institution or a preserved artist's home. Its historic Vilnius Society of Friends of Science building combines a selected display from the Kasiulis family gift with changing exhibitions on Lithuanian diaspora art. Construction of the Neoclassical building began in 1910; after serving several very different museum functions, it opened under Kasiulis's name in 2013.

Vytautas the Great War Museum in Kaunas is one of Lithuania's oldest museums, founded at the end of 1919 and opened on February 16, 1921. The present 1936 buildings, shared with the Čiurlionis Museum, the tower, and the memorial garden form one of interwar Kaunas' key state-memory ensembles.

The Vytautas Valiušis Ceramics Museum in Leliūnai, Utena District, is one of Lithuania's largest ceramics museums. Founded in 2001 by folk artist and ceramicist Vytautas Valiušis, it presents the development of Lithuanian pottery, black ceramics, and practical pottery-craft education.

Wakepark Palanga is a paid cable-wake venue on Liepojos plentas, set on a pine-ringed quarry lake roughly 3 km from the resort centre. Its two separately booked systems differ in layout: one has two medium kickers, a Flatbox, and a Pipebox, while the other has two medium kickers and is presented as the more beginner-friendly line. This is neither Palanga's Baltic beach nor 313 Cable Park at Užpelkiai.

The Wooden Urban Architecture Museum, now operating as the Wooden Architecture Centre, is set in a restored wooden house in Užupis and explains Vilnius wooden houses, crafts, heritage, and contemporary timber construction.

Kaunas's Yard Gallery is not a conventional museum. It is a lived-in 36-apartment courtyard on E. Ožeškienės Street, where walls, balconies, and everyday utility elements carry the memories of neighbours. Artist Vytenis Jakas's initiative is publicly documented from 2014, beginning with a cat that encouraged tidiness, a Charlie Chaplin figure, and portraits of former and present residents painted from family photographs. Neighbours and other artists later contributed to the Blue, Black, and White House scenographies, the Dream Tailor Shop, and the 2022 Rooms of Secrets. The official site currently welcomes visitors daily from 9:00 to 19:00 and lists no admission ticket, but it requires quiet, prohibits entering stairwells, and says organised activities must be agreed with the curator. Renovation begun at an adjoining building in June 2026 demonstrates that this outdoor collection is not physically permanent.

Žalgiris Arena is the largest multipurpose arena in the Baltic States, opened on Nemunas Island in 2011 and home to the Žalgiris Kaunas basketball team. Glass walls expose layers of steel, reinforced concrete, stairs, and services in the 40,000-square-metre building designed by Eugenijus Miliūnas and Aurimas Ramanauskas, while the main room transforms from a concert for a few thousand people to a sporting layout for more than 15,000. On July 21, 2026, the exact Google Maps listing showed 4.7 out of 5 from approximately 23,400 reviews.

Žaliūkiai Miller's Homestead-Museum in Šiauliai preserves a Dutch-type windmill built around 1875-1880, a state-protected cultural heritage object, together with a reconstructed miller's house, ethnographic exposition, and living bread-baking and calendar-festival education.

The Zanavykai Museum is the regional ethnography and history museum of the Zanavykai, one of Suvalkija's subethnic groups. It is located in the Zypliai Manor homestead in Lukšiai. More than 50,000 exhibits tell the history of Zanavykija, rural crafts, and everyday life; the museum occupies two former manor farm buildings, the carriage house and the Crafts House opened in 2022. It is the main museum of the Šakiai region and is best visited together with Zypliai Manor itself.

Zarasai Regional Museum, founded in 1934 by teacher Stasys Jauniškis, is the district's main storehouse of history, ethnic culture, and regional studies. It holds more than 24,600 exhibits and includes a hall of folk religious sculpture, the M. Šileikis gallery, and three branches.

Zarasai Water Sports Park is the earlier name for the site at 4 Salos Street that its present operator markets as Wake Inn Zarasai. A six-tower full-circuit cable with eight tow carriers operates on Great Island in Lake Zarasas, with a start area and exit pontoons that shorten the swim after a fall. The operator separately offers the Water Inn inflatable course, paddleboards, equipment rental, and other seasonal services, so one ticket does not automatically cover the entire island complex. Current official pages contradict one another over the number of wake features, Water Inn pricing and session times, and do not provide one consistently dependable Zarasai timetable. This guide leaves those discrepancies visible and recommends confirming the season, time, price, and required equipment by telephone before travelling.

Žasliai Traditional Crafts Centre at Vytauto g. 38 is a stop on a Kaišiadorys-area crafts and education route. Regular opening hours, prices, and the activity schedule still need to be confirmed before travelling.

Žemaičių Museum "Alka" in Telšiai, founded in 1932 by Pranas Genys and the Alka society, is one of Samogitia's key museums: more than 155,000 exhibits, a 1938 museum palace, manor archives, and an 8.5 ha Samogitian village exhibition with Žemaitukai horses.

The Žemaitė Memorial Museum is located at Bukantė Manor, the birthplace of classic Lithuanian writer Žemaitė. The restored homestead tells the story of her life and writing and also presents Samogitian folk art and sacred heritage.

Zoopark Vilnius is a private indoor zoo operated by VšĮ Zoopark.lt and opened at Ogmios Miestas on August 31, 2018. Its compact indoor collection includes small primates, ring-tailed lemurs, meerkats, armadillos, tropical birds, tortoises, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates. Some animals can be observed without a conventional glass wall and selected species may be fed at fixed times using only food sold by the zoo, but contact, visibility, and access to a zone always depend on keeper instructions and animal welfare. On July 21, 2026, the exact Google Maps listing showed 4.7 out of 5 from approximately 4,100 reviews.

Zooparkas in Trakėnai village near Kalvarija is a seasonal private open-air zoo whose current official catalogue lists lions, tigers, jaguars, pumas, caracals, and Eurasian lynx, alongside zebras, bison, Père David's deer, llamas, Bactrian camels, and many other hoofed animals. Its outdoor enclosures occupy the flat, lightly shaded grassland of Suvalkija. The zoo, playground, and Dinosaur Park appear as three separately priced products on the official tariff, so families should budget for their chosen sections rather than assume that one admission covers everything.