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Museums & Galleries

Museums & Galleries
All in all there are some 40 or so museums in Kaunas celebrating everything from Lithuania’s most beloved poets to the history of the country’s police force, some of them located in little more than a cupboard complete with no information in English. The following represents only the tip of the iceberg.


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Ceramics Museum

The city’s Ceramics Museum celebrates Kaunas’ role as a provider of bricks and ceramic tiles over the centuries with the help of this small dark space inside the basement of the Old Town Hall. Read_on (No Comments)

Communications History Museum

An interesting journey through the history of the country’s communications industry, this intriguing museum starts with Read_on (No Comments)

Devil Museum

This bizarre museum owes its existence to the eccentric Antanas Žmuidzinavičius (1876-1966) who collected over 2,000 depictions of devils from all over the world. Read_on (2 Comments)

Exiles & Political Prisoners Exhibition

A small kiosk-looking building on the western edge of the city’s former main cemetery, on the right as you enter are Read_on (1 Comment)

Kaunas City Museum

What should be a fascinating collection of exhibits celebrating the rich cultural and ethnic history of the city from its founding Read_on (No Comments)

Kaunas County Pedagogical Museum

One of the city’s lesser known museums, this fascinating look into the world of Lithuanian education is divided into three Read_on (No Comments)

Kaunas Picture Gallery

Worth a look inside, the Kaunas Picture Gallery houses a permanent exhibition of 20th-century Lithuanian and Lithuanian émigré art, including a section dedicated to the Kaunas-born founder of the Fluxus movement George Maciunas (Lith. Read_on (No Comments)

Lithuanian Aviation Museum

Lithuanian Aviation Museum
A fairly substantial collection of memorabilia and some actual aircraft including a home-built helicopter, a Soviet-built flight simulator and the chance to pilot your own computerised plane. Read_on (No Comments)

Lithuanian Sports Museum

A small collection celebrating some of the country's greatest sporting achievements in a musty attic, including such rarities as Soviet table tennis balls to one of the torches used at the opening ceremony of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. Read_on (No Comments)

Maironis Museum

Located in the house where Maironis (see Monuments) once lived, all this outstanding museum needs to be perfect is explanations in English. Read_on (No Comments)

Medicine & Pharmacy History Museum

Enter through the ridiculously small door on the right marked Kasa and be prepared for a strange and sometimes sinister history lesson, albeit mostly in Lithuanian only. Read_on (No Comments)

M. K. Čiurlionis State Art Museum

Painter, composer, mystic and depressive are some of the words that have been used to describe the nation's favourite painter and composer. Read_on (1 Comment)

Mykolas Žilinskas Art Museum

The former private collection of the Lithuanian art collector Mykolas Žilinskas (1904-1992) is now in the hands of the M. Read_on (No Comments)

Ninth Fort Museum

The last of the defensive forts built in and around Kaunas to protect the westernmost point of the Russian Empire, work began on the Ninth Fort in 1902 and was completed on the eve of WWI. Read_on (2 Comments)

Povilas Stulga Folk Music & Instruments Museum

A positively charming museum made even more appealing by the smiling and helpful ladies who look after it, spread out over two Read_on (No Comments)

Stumbras Museum

Lithuania’s largest producer of alcoholic spirits started making vodka in 1906 in a factory built in Kaunas at the personal decree of Nicholas II, and has been manufacturing it and other spirits almost without a break to this day. Read_on (No Comments)

Tadas Ivanauskas Zoological Museum

Named after the famed zoologist and biologist Tadas Ivanauskas (1882-1971), find three magnificent if slightly old-fashioned Read_on (1 Comment)

Vytautas the Great Military Museum

A maze-like confusion of musty rooms on two floors, crammed with exhibits aimed at enlightening visitors on the subject of Lithuania’s military history over the past several centuries. Read_on (No Comments)