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. He is not only an artist, but an avid art collector, and when he returned to Lithuania in 1998, he brought his immense collection with him, which can now be seen in this mind boggling museum. It's impossible to even suggest the vast range of stuff tucked away in this nondescript looking building. You have to see it to believe it. Appointments necessary, and well worthwhile.

Admission free.

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• Vidas - Vilnius 06 December 2011
  Varnelis arrived at United States in 1948 (not 1949) and I think everybody who was constrained to move from Lithuania in the end of WWII because soviets would say that he or she did not escape but was expellee. Exile is not escaping...
• Mary Krienke - Geneva 11 October 2011
  This is an absolutely wonderful museum one of the high points of our recent visit to Vilmius.