Museum for the Blind

Museum can be entered through the back entrance of the church.

Museum is open during church service hours, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

”In the frame of international exchange project “Catacombs of 21st Century”, organized by the students of Kaunas University of Technology (September 10-20, 2005), Lithuanian and foreign students have created Museum for the Blind under supervision of the sculptor, the National prize winner – Robertas Antinis. The idea of this museum is the sensual experience and means of its expression (such as hearing, smell, touch). Exposition “Catacombs of 21st Century” that evokes the spatial installation, includes 8 different parts: passing, manhole, garden, first step, border, second step, fragments, memory. Exposition is absolutely invisible; visitors can only perceive it through sounds, smells and touching. According to R. Antinis, visitors of this museum must work through hanging objects, elastic stripes, spaces of sounds, smells and touching.
Visitor information is in Braille and in common writing.
Visitors who can see are also invited to conquer “Catacombs of 21st Century”.
Museum was opened September 19, 2005 and will be open for the next three years. This is the first museum for the blind in the Baltic States and one of the first among museums of Eastern Europe.” (Museums of Lithuania 2007)

 

Lithuanian Aviation Museum

Info Telefon: (370-7) 29 55 47
Besucher-Email: lam@lam.lt

9-17 h daily, except Sundays, Mondays and holidays. If you have a special interests please call us on weekdays between the hours of 9 AM and 4 PM (Middle Europe time, GMT+01:00), or contact us via e-mail.

"The Lithuanian Aviation Museum formerly known as the Lithuanian Technical Museum was founded on February 19, 1990, on the base of the Vytautas Magnus Military Museum section of Technical History. It acquired its present name on February 1, 1995. Its director is Algis Lapinskas. The museum is within the jurisdiction of the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture and is located in Kaunas, Lithuania at the Darius and Girenas airfield which has been in operation since 1915. The museum's collection contains more than 14,000 exhibits, including 35 aircraft and gliders as well as a 16,000 volume library. Two branches of the museum can be found in the native farmsteads of the famous 1933 Lithuanian transatlantic pilots, Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas. These are located in the Klaipeda and Silute districts respectively. On March 6, 1991 the museum opened its own publishing house "Plieno Sparnai" (Wings of Steel) which has issued 30 publications." (Museums of Lithuania 2007)

 

Juozas Gruodis Museum

Fax.: +370-37-733371

Info Telefon: +370-37-732489
Besucher-Email: kau.petr.muz@delfi.lt

Kaunas City Council

Wed to Sun 11.00-17.00 h

"The museum was founded in 1977 in the home which composer Juozas Gruodis (1884-1948) lived from 1932. The exhibition reflects the composer’s life and creative work. Chamber music concerts and meetings with well-known musicians are also held here." (Museums of Lithuania 2007)


 

M. and K. Petrauskai Lithuanian Music Museum

Fax.: +370-37-733371

Info Telefon: +370-37-733371
Besucher-Email: kau.petr.muz@delfi.lt

Kaunas City Council

Wednesday to Sunday 11.00-17.00 h

"The museum was founded in 1970 in the home of Mikas and Kipras Petrauskas.
In 1969 the Council of Ministers decided to establish K. Petrauskas memorial museum.
The museum bought from K. Petrauskas’ wife Elena Zalinkevicaite-Petrauskiene already restored furniture for the memorial flat and also pictures, different things - carpets, souvenirs, plates and dishes etc.
K. Petrauskas' wife and his daughter Ausra helped the museum to furnish the rooms of the flat and thus, to restore the authentic atmosphere.
In 1977 the museum was opened to public.
K. Petrauskas memorial museum established in 1969 turned into Lithuanian Museum of Music and became the center of the musical society in Kaunas.

The museum contains memorabilia of Lithuanian musicians, works by Lithuanian artists collected by Kipras Petrauskas, and the personal libraries of composers Juozas Gruodis and Stasys Simkus." (Museums of Lithuania 2007)

 

Antanas Zmuidzinavicius Memorial Museum

Info Telefon: +370-37-221587

M. K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum

Tuesday to Sunday 11.00-17.00 h.

"The museum was established in 1966, in the artist Antanas Zmuidzinavicius' (1876–1966) home (designed by architect Vytautas Landsbergis-Zemkalnis, 1893–1993)." (Museums of Lithuania 2007)

In 1961 the painter A. Zmuidzinavicius gave his works of art, collections and archive to Lithuania.
In 1967 the painter's memorial flat and studio were opened to public.
In 1982 a special wing was built for the collection of "Devils".

The museum contains the artist's works, A. Zmuidzinavicius collection of Lithuanian folk art.
Collection of the museum consists of a painter's Antanas Zmuidzinavicius' works of art and archive, memorial things.
 

The Devil's Museum

Info Telefon: +370-37-221587
Besucher-Email: mkc.velniai@takas.lt

M. K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum

October – May:
Tuesday – Sunday 11.00–17.00 h
June – September:
Tuesday – Sunday 11.00–18.00 h

"The museum contains the A. Zmuidzinavicius collection of sculptures and carvings of devils, and a collection of devils from the whole world, but presents of visitors of the museum as well: devils, witches, personages of various myths and fairy tales)." (Museums of Lithuania 2007)


 

Kaunas Picture Gallery

Info Telefon: (+370 37) 221779
Besucher-Email: PKGal@takas.lt

National M. K. Ciurlionis Museum

Tuesday to Sunday 11.00-17.00 h

"Designed by architects Liucija Gedgaudiene and Jonas Navakas, the gallery was built and its exposition opened in 1979.
The museum collects 20th century Lithuanian and Lithuanian émigrés art, and a collection of North American Indian art donated by Juozas Kaributas (USA), an émigré actor and cultural activist." (Museums of Lithuania 2007)


 

S. Stanevicius memorial farmstead-museum (Farmstead-museum of Samogitian Nobleman)

Info Telefon: +370-428-55483

„Exposition
The life and activity of the poet and specialist of folk-lore Simonas Stanevicius (1977-1848)
Perpetuation of Simonas Stanevicius remembrance
Flax-growing
Articles of garner
Other ethnographic collections“ (Museums of Lithuania)

Picture: The birthplace of S. Stanevicius (Photo by Grazina Peckaitiene)

Liudas Truikys and Marijona Rakauskaite Museum

Tel.: +370-37-229967

Info Telefon: +370-652-13621

M. K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum

ATTENTION: OPEN ONLY by arrangement.

"The museum was opened in L. Truikys and M. Rakauskaite former apartment in 1994. It houses L. Truikys' works (water-colors, stage and costume designs, manuscripts), and the artist's collections of Oriental art and Lithuanian folk sculptures.

In memorial exposition - L. Truikys' production left behind (water-color paintings, stenographic and costume sketches, manuscripts) from the artist's accumulated Eastern art and Lithuanian folk sculptures collection." (Museums of Lithuania 2007)

 

Pedagogical Museum

Fax.: +370-37-207936

Info Telefon: +370-37-206210
Besucher-Email: pedagoginism@takas.lt

Monday to Thursday 11-18 h
Friday 11-16.45 h.

"Pedagogical museum, which is one of the oldest museums of the independent Lithuania, was established in 1922 by Kaunas local government. Initiator and head of the museum for many years was Vincas Ruzgas (1890–1972), who was pedagogue, author of manuals, and public man.
During the World War II the museum was closed.
In 1958 the museum was named as Republican Pedagogical Museum and its exhibits for the visitors were accessible again. In 1980 it was opened an exposition which examined development of education in Lithuania. In 2002 when the founder of the museum was substituted the museum was renamed as Pedagogical Museum of Kaunas County.

The collections accumulated by the museum reflect the history of education in Lithuania: the first school mentioned in 1397 book of Vilnius Cathedral, and other schools opened in Lithuania after the introduction of Christianity, parish schools and colleges of 17th-18th centuries, education under the tsarist regime, the system of education in the Republic of Lithuania, its development in the period between the two world wars, and the Soviet system of education. The collections include teaching materials, educational periodicals, and the personal libraries of well-known teachers and academicians." (Museums of Lithuania 2007)