List of museums in Lithuania

The list of museums and collections in Lithuania includes the museums and collections in Lithuania .

Museums

Vilnius

• Pamėnkalnio St., Vilnius Gaon State Jewish Museum [1]
• Gedimino prospektas , Museum of Genocide Victims
• Arsenalo St., Lithuanian Museum of Fine Arts [2]
• Didžioji gatvė , Art Museum in the New Town Hall
• T.-Vrubleviskio- Str., Lithuanian National Museum [3]
• Lithuanian Museum of Theater, Music and Film [4]
• Michaeliskirche, architecture museum and urban planning in Vilnius
• Laisvės prospektas , LITEXPO, International exhibitions and fairs
• Aušros Vartų street, ARKA gallery - exhibitions and concerts
• Ašmenos Street, LANGAS Gallery - modern art exhibitions
• Vilniaus gatvė , VARTAI Gallery - modern art exhibitions and concerts
• Didžioji gatvė , Gallery FOTOKUNST - exhibitions on photography
• Vokiečių gatvė , Center for Modern Art - Sculpture, Graphics, Painting and Photo Art
• Ukmergės St., PLANETARIUM - astronomy history and art exhibitions

Kaunas

• Donnerhaus, branch of the military museum, also a collection of stove tiles from the 15th and 16th centuries
• Garrison church, temporarily used as a museum for religious stained glass
• Gildehaus, Museum of Medieval and Early Modern Pharmacy and Medical History
• Old Town Hall , Museum of Medieval Ceramics
• Military Museum of Vytautas the Great
• Modern Art Museum
• Žilinskas Gallery - collection of the art patron Mykolas Žilinskas
• Čiurlionis Museum
• Devil museum
• Lithuanian Aviation Museum [5]
• Lithuanian Open Air Museum

Klaipeda

• Didžioji vandens St., History Museum "Little Lithuania"
• Smiltynės St., Lithuanian Maritime Museum [6]
• Liepų-Str., Local History Collections
• Liepų-Str., Picture gallery, (focus: Lithuanian masters of the 19th century)
• Liepų-Str., Clock Museum [7]
• Mažvydas Park, a sculpture park started in 1977 in an abandoned cemetery, a total work of art through the visible contrast between transience and modern art.

Šiauliai

• Aušros St., Aušra Museum - (technology of photography, film history, development of the bicycle and other technical subjects) [8]
• Šiauliai Railway Museum
• Šiauliai Bicycle Museum
• Šiauliai Bicycle Museum
• Šiauliai Police Museum
• Šiauliai Photography Museum
• Šiauliai Cat Museum

Architectural monuments

• Palūšė , wooden village church ( Ignalina district )
• Sudervė , a classicist church building from the early 19th century ( Vilnius Rajongemeinde )
• Zervynos , village museum - 36 farms and houses ( Varėna district )

Castle and palace museums

• Trakai , Inselburg, City History Museum [9]
• Medininkai , restored castle from the 13th century Vilnius district municipality
• Raudondvaris , Castle Museum and Park (15 hectares), Kaunas Rajongemeinde

Birth houses / memorials

• Čiurlionis Memorial Museum in Druskininkai, birthplace of the composer and painter Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis [10]
• Maironis Museum on Kaunas Town Hall Square , Museum of the Poet Jonas Mačiulis- Maironis (Maironis Museum of Lithuanian Literature [11] )
• Nida , Thomas Mann Cultural Center
• Vilnius , Subačiaus St., “Pushkin Museum”, Grigory Pushkin's house
• Pažaislis Monastery , " Petrašiūnai Cemetery " at the monastery, national memorial and burial place of many prominent Lithuanians

Local museums

• Biržai , local museum in Biržai Castle
• Jonava , National Museum of Jonava
• Kaunas , local history museum with folk musical instruments
• Kretinga , castle, local museum
• Panevėžys , Versario St., Local History Museum
• Rokiškis , local museum in the castle

Memorial and memorial sites of the world wars

• Ablinga , memorial to a massacre of civilians
• Naujieji Pirčiupiai , memorial and exhibition on a massacre of the civilian population

Specialty museums

archeology

• Kernavė , State Archaeological-Historical Museum with the "Reserve" exhibition area [12]

Botany and zoology

• Lentvaris , Castle - Dendrological Park and Collection
• Kretinga , castle, orangery / greenhouse with exotic plants
• Upytė , Agricultural Research Institute, Flax Museum
• Stripeikiai Beekeeping Museum , Stripeikiai , history of beekeeping
• Palanga , city park as a dendrological park
• Palūšė , National Park Information Center

ethnology

• Rumšiškės , Lithuanian Open Air Museum [13]
• Nida , fishing museum
• Molėtai , Lithuanian Museum of Ethnocosmology [14]
• Druskininkai , “ Echo-des-Waldes-Museum ” - life of the forest workers, hunting trophies, plant and animal preparations
• Panevėžys , Respublikas St., Folk Art Museum
• Trakai , Karaimen Ethnographic Museum

Handicrafts and technology

• Kretinga , castle, handicraft collection
• Juodkrantė , Raganos Hill, Sculpture Park on the " Witch Hill "
• Palanga , in the city park, Palanga Amber Museum [15]
• State Museum for Unique Stones [16]
• Varniai , Museum of the Samogite Diocese [17]

mineralogy

• Mosėdis , landscape park (10 hectares) designed as a stone museum

Bizarre

• Kaunas , Devil Museum
• Šiauliai , Žuvininkų St., Cat Museum
• Salantai , Künstlerhof ORVIDAI, installations and objects designed as a “nonsense museum”

literature

• Marianne Mehling (Ed.): Knaur's cultural guide in color . Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-26608-3 , p. 171-236 .

Web links

• Official website of the Lithuanian Museums Association
• Complete museum directory of museums in Lithuania