Museum of applied art

Info Telefon: (370~5) 2121813
Besucher-Email: tdm@takas.lt

„h Lithuanian Art Museum

Tuesday to Saturday 11.00-18.00
Sunday and National Holiday Eve 11.00-16.00
Museum is closed on Monday and on national holidays.

The museum is housed in the old Arsenal at the foot of Gediminas Hill. This striking white building was built in the early 17th century in the renaissance style on the site of the former city wall, part of which can be seen in the basement.

Picture: The museum (The Old Arsenal) from the outside. Photo by A. Luksenas


 

National Museum of Lithuania

Tel.: +370-5-262774
Fax.: +370-5-2611023.

Info Telefon: +370-5-2629426
Besucher-Email: muziejus@lnm.lt
http://www.lnm.lt...

The Castle Tower of Gediminas Hill

Info Telefon: +370-5-2617453

National Museum of Lithuania

1 May to 30 September: Daily 10.00-19.00.
1 October to 30 April: Tuesday to Sunday 10.00-17.00 h.

"In the exposition there are on display the reconstruction models of Vilnius castles of the 14th-17th centuries, arms, iconography material." (Museums of Lithuania)

 

The New Arsenal

Info Telefon: +370-5-2629426

National Museum of Lithuania

1 May to 30 September: Tuesday to Saturday 10.00–17.00, Sunday 10.00–15.00
1 October to 30 April: Wednesday to Sunday 10.00-17.00 h.

"The exposition "Lithuanian State and Culture History". It reflects the history of Lithuanian State and culture starting from 13th century until present days. The exhibitions covering the topics of state and culture history are organized permanently." (Museums of Lithuania)

 

The Old Arsenal

Info Telefon: +370-5-2122452

National Museum of Lithuania

1 May to 30 September: Tuesday to Saturday 10.00–17.00, Sunday 10.00–15.00.
1 October to 30 April: Wednesday to Sunday 10.00-17.00 h.

"Here the archaeological exhibition 'Prehistoric Lithuania' is shown." (Museums of Lithuania)

 

The Vilnius District Central Post-Office Museum

Dr. Petras Rutkauskas

Info Telefon: +370-5-2616759

"The Museum keeps exhibits related to history of post, various articles, prints issued by the Post-Office such as “Lietuvos pasto zinios” (News of the Lithuanian Post), “Lietuvos pastas” (Lithuanian Post). " (Museums of Lithuania)

 

Beatrice Grinceviciute Museum ‘‘Beatrice's Home‘‘

Info Telefon: +370-5-2617422
Besucher-Email: grinceviciute@vilniausmuziejai.lt

Directorate of Memorial Museums of Vilnius:

Monday to Thursday 1 p.m - 6 p.m., Friday 1 p. m. - 5 p. m.



Picture: The blind singer Beatrice Grinceviciute

"The Museum's collection consists of the singer’s B. Grinceviciute (1911-1988) books, records, pictures, furniture, photographs. " (Museums of Lithuania, corrected)

Picture: The blind singer Beatrice Grinceviciute
 

Stasys Vainiunas House-Museum

Fax.: +370-5-2616754

Info Telefon: +370-5-2616754
Besucher-Email: vainiunonamai@lmrf.lt

ATTENTION: Visits ONLY by arrangement.

"The exposition makes visitors familiar with the life and creation of composer and pianist S. Vainiunas (1909-1982). The composer’s memorial and personal things are displayed there. " (Museums of Lithuania)
Picture: Dr. John Henderson

 

The Museum of Genocide Victims

Tel.: +370-5-2497427
Fax.: +370-5-2497427

Info Telefon: +370-5-2496264 (guides)
Besucher-Email: muziejus@genocid.lt
http://www.genocid.lt/muziejus/...

Tuesday to Saturday 10 a.m to 5 p.m.
Sunday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

´"The KGB prison
The most important part of the exhibition put on by the museum is the old NKVD/MGB/KGB prison that was established in the basement of the building in the autumn of 1940 after Lithuania‘s occupation by the Soviet Union. At that time, the prison contained 50 cells. Only at the beginning of the 1960s, when the anti-Soviet resistance was broken, were most of the cells used to house the KGB archives. The remaining 23 cells (later on, 19) were still used for the imprisonment of dissidents and fighters for human rights.
The prison is now as it was when the KGB left it in August 1991. Visitors can see 19 common wards, the rooms of the duty officer and the guards, the search and fingerprinting rooms, a padded cell where prisoners were tortured, solitery confinement cells and courtyards where prisoners were taken for exercise. Small thematic exhibitions are put on in some cells (about the persecution of priests and etc).

Armed anti-Soviet resistance
(Documents, objects, photographs, literature)
This collection has been started to form just after the foundation of the museum on the base of historic documents found in the central KGB building in Vilnius. It consists of partisans' documents, photographs, publications that were confiscated by MGB from partisans or their supporters and not included into their criminal cases as exhibits. Lately, this collection was supplemented with values presented by people or organisations, or found during the expeditions. The collection is still under inventory. Persons who signed by their pseudonyms and unknown partisans should be identified.

Unarmed anti-Soviet resistance
(Biographies, photographs, publications)
The material about the unarmed resistance possessed by the museum is still not abundant; it is gradually supplemented and ordered. The base of it was formed from the material seized by the KGB during the Soviet period from the dissidents and citizens sympathising with them: books, underground publications, documents.
Almost all issues of "Chronicle of the Lithuanian Catholic Church" are stored in set, as well as the underground magazines and newspapers "Ausra", "Vytis", "Alma Mater", "Laisves sauklys", "Dievas ir Tevyne", "Tautos kelias", etc. In resent years, interesting photos reflecting the dissident movement and the members of this movement were acquired. The contacts entered in with the former dissidents give us hope that the collection will be supplemented by valuable and interesting material.

Lithuanian people in prisons and deportation
(Documents, objects, photographs)
This collection consists of the material brought to the museum by people themselves or collected during the expeditions. It contains the photographs, also some original documents and objects. This group of the said collection is supplemented permanently. People who had kept their or their relatives' things reminding of deportation or prison, brought those things to the museum lately. This is the only way to restore them and to keep them properly.

Activity of the Soviet repressive institutions
(Documents, literature, video and audio records)
This collection contains objects found in the former KGB building in 1992. Valuable exhibits were found at the former museum of the "Chekist Fame", Operative technical department, special library, and photo laboratory. The said collection is still supplemented: some interesting exhibits were acquired from Lithuanian Special Archive, private persons, and shops of antiquities." (Museums of Lithuania)
 

Exposition of Holocaust

Fax.: (370 ~5 ) 2127083

Info Telefon: (370 ~5 ) 2620730
Besucher-Email: jewishmuseum@jmuseum.lt
http://www.jmuseum.lt...

Monday to Thursday 9.00–17.00; Friday 9.00–16.00 h.

" The exposition informs about history of Lithuanian Jewish until the World War II and about the genocide of Jewish nation." (Museums of Lithuania)