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Amber Museum-Gallery

Although not officially a museum this two-storey ode to amber offers explanations in English, German and Lithuanian about the formation, colour, harvesting and processing of Baltic Gold. Read_on (No Comments)

Applied Arts Museum

Applied Arts Museum
Housed inside what was the far northeast corner of the city’s original defensive walls, of which some including an original Read_on (No Comments)

Archaeology Museum

Rather awkward to find hidden away inside a courtyard opposite the funicular station, this often overlooked collection of clothing, Read_on (No Comments)

Church Heritage Museum

Founded in October 2005 by the Archbishop of Vilnius, Audrys Juozas Bačkis, and moved to the splendour of the former 17th-century St. Read_on (No Comments)

Diamond Museum

A multimedia journey explaining the history and the processing of diamonds with the help of a disembodied voice emanating from a number of expensive televisions. Read_on (No Comments)

Gediminas Castle & Museum

Gediminas Castle & Museum
Dating from the 13th century the castle was rebuilt in 1419 by Grand Duke Vytautas following the great fire of Vilnius. In 1610 Read_on (No Comments)

Genocide Victims' Museum

Genocide Victims' Museum
The sign outside reads that between 1940 and 1991 this building housed the representative institutions of the NKVD and KGB, and, Read_on (2 Comments)

Kazys Varnelis Museum

Kazys Varnelis escaped Lithuania in 1949 and earned moderate fame and fortune in America by creating the sorts of dizzying-pattern paintings that inspired wallpaper that people are still trying to remove from 70s style flats. Read_on (2 Comments)

Lithuanian Blind Museum

This highly recommended albeit miniscule exhibition celebrating the history of the blind and partially sighted people of Lithuania Read_on (No Comments)

Lithuanian Energy and Technology Museum

Lithuanian Energy and Technology Museum
Housed inside Vilnius’ first power station, built in 1903, this tremendous museum is packed full of displays including a Read_on (No Comments)

Lithuanian Railway Museum

Well tap my wheels and call me Thomas, this dinky little museum even has a train set. All aboard for a brief history of the Lithuanian railway system, complete with photos, diagrams, uniforms, signal lights, old tickets, stamps, pins etc. Read_on (No Comments)

Lithuanian Theatre, Music & Cinema Museum

Lithuanian Theatre, Music & Cinema Museum
Originating in 1926 as a theatre museum and slowly collecting departments and exhibits over the decades until it became what it Read_on (No Comments)

Marija & Jurgis Šlapelis Museum

The doctor, linguist, translator and Lithuanian political figure Jurgis Šlapelis (1876-1941) and his opera-singing, Read_on (No Comments)

Money Museum

Featuring five small rooms on two floors celebrating the history of world and Lithuanian money, despite the inclusion of lots Read_on (No Comments)

National Art Gallery

Found inside a renovated and enlarged building that once housed the Museum of the Revolution of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, this bold endeavour showcases the work of a multitude of artists of Lithuanian origin from the 20th and 21st century. Read_on (No Comments)

National Museum

National Museum
Lithuania’s oldest museum, parts of the collection inside this intriguing history lesson date back to the 13th century. Read_on (No Comments)

Pushkin Memorial Museum

Alexander Pushkin's son, Grigorij, and his wife, Varvara, lived in this wooden house on their Markučiai estate from 1899 until their deaths in 1905 and 1935. Read_on (No Comments)

Radvila Palace

Radvila Palace
The late 17th-century Radvila Palace has seen several renovations over the centuries although by the looks of it it hasn’t seen a paintbrush for a few decades. Read_on (No Comments)

Sąjūdis Museum

No longer the force they were, the reform movement who spearheaded the fight for Lithuanian independence between 1988 and 1990 continue to operate from this building overlooking the Cathedral. Read_on (No Comments)

Signatories' House

Signatories' House
According to the tour guide who whisks you around the place on this 30-minute history lesson, during the first German occupation Read_on (No Comments)

Stasys Brundza Cadillac Collection

If you don’t like cars much we’re afraid you’re going to be disappointed with this place because basically it’s a big room-full of them and nothing else. Read_on (No Comments)

Tuskulėnai Peace Park Memorial Complex

Between 1944 and 1947 over 700 Lithuanians, Poles and Jews were executed by the forerunner to the KGB and buried in what was at the time State-owned property in the grounds of the 19th-century Tuskulėnų Dvaras manor house. Read_on (No Comments)

Vilnius Picture Gallery

Vilnius Picture Gallery
Housed inside the charming 17th-century Chodkevičiai (Chodkiewicz) family palace, this splendid little museum is of the type in which a menagerie of middle-aged ladies shuttle you around from room to room like a pinball. Read_on (No Comments)

Vilnius Regional Ethnographic Museum

Perhaps only worth the trip if you’re a fanatic or would like to see what a typical small Lithuanian town looks like, the upstairs of this nondescript building has been transformed into a veritable ethnographic Aladdin’s cave. Read_on (No Comments)

Vilnius University Zoological Museum

Housed inside a glorious building worth having a look inside on its own, find literally thousands of species of molluscs, crustaceans, fish, reptiles, mammals, bones and a beautiful collection of 716 bird species. Read_on (No Comments)