Founded in 1991 by the Lithuanian sculptor Gintaras Karosas, this wildly different and recommended countryside excursion brings together a number of names in local and international sculpture including Karosas himself, the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz as well as Dennis Oppenheim and the late Sol Le-Witt from the United States to create a vision that in the words of the park’s founder ‘…give[s] an artistic significance to the geographic centre of the European continent…'. Featuring close on 100 works by artists from countries as diverse as Armenia, Japan and Venezuela, the park is spread out over 55 hectares of rolling hills and woodland and includes static and interactive art as well as the now infamous Info Tree, Karosas’ crumbling shrine to propaganda made up of some 3,000 televisions with a prostrate Lenin at its centre. With the addition of a restaurant and gift shop, the park offers a splendid few hours away from the city for people of all ages. To get there by car, take Kalvarijų north to the Santariškės roundabout, turn right towards the Green Lakes (Žalieji Ežerai) and follow the signs. Buses leave from the Žalgirio stop on Kalvarijų, including a minibus to Skirgiškės which goes all the way to the park itself. Alternatively, bus N°36 goes part of the way there but requires the last couple of kilometres to be made on foot.
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Joneikiškiai, 10km north of Vilnius
tel. (+370) 5 237 70 77
Open 10:00 to sunset.
tel. (+370) 5 237 70 77
Open 10:00 to sunset.





