Saciai secondary school

Info Telefon: +370-440-46738

"The exposition tells about the life and creativity of Matas Untulis." (Museums of Lithuania)

Palanga Amber Museum

Info Telefon: (370 460) 51319, (370 460) 535
Besucher-Email: pgm@takas.lt
http://www.pgm.lt/Gintaro_muziejus/turin...

Lithuanian Art Museum

Tuesday to Saturday 11.00-17.00.
Sunday and National Holiday Eve 11.00-16.00.June to August:
Tuesday to Saturday 10.00-20.00.
Sunday and National Holiday Eve 10.00-19.00 h.

ermanent exhibition of amber, which reflects the centuries old history of amber formation, morphology and its global distribution. Amber objects and artworks.
 

Simonas Daukantas Museum

ATTENTION: Visits only by arrangement.

"Life and Works of Simonas Daukantas (1793-1864);
Ethnographic Exposition;
Simonas Daukantas Granary

In the center of the town there is a monument built in 1993 to commemorate the first Lithuanian historian, Simonas Daukantas." (Museums of Lithuania)

 

Antano Moncio Namai Muziejus

Palanga Botanical Park

Info Telefon: (+370-460) 49270, 49271
Besucher-Email: botanikosparkas@takas.lt

This landscaped garden is one of the prettiest, best-preserved, and best-kept parks in Lithuania's coastal region. In 1987 Count Felix Tiskevicius founded this park around the palace built the same year. The park was designed by the famous French landscape architect and botanist Eduard Fransua Andr‚ (1840-1911), who spent three summers in Palanga with his son Ren Eduard Andr (1867-1942) supervising the park's construction. They were assisted by the Belgian gardener Buyssen de Coulon.

 

The Memorial Farmstead of Dr. Jonas Sliupas

Info Telefon: +370-460-54559

1 May to 1 October:
Monday to Sunday 12.00-19.00.
1 October to 1 May:
Wednesday to Sunday 11.00-17.00 h.

"Opened in 1995, the exposition illustrates the life and work of Dr. Jonas Sliupas (1861-1944), a prominent figure of Lithuania’s struggle for nationhood.

J. Sliupas (1861-1944), physician, publicist, and nationalist liberal activist. He studied history, philology, and law at the University of Moscow (1880-1881) and natural sciences in St. Petersburg (1882).
J. Sliupas accepted an offer to edit Ausra (The Dawn), the monthly of the Lithuanian national movement published at Lithuania Minor (East Prussia).
After secretly visiting Lithuania, he left for the United States in 1884. There he acquired a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Maryland Medical School (1891) and began practicing among Lithuanian immigrants.
Sliupas was one of the most noted and energetic Lithuanian-American activists of his time. During the 35 years he spent in the United States, he founded and edited one publication after another.
In publications he promoted a materialist and atheist liberalism, frequently attacking the clergy and faithful, in the harshest of terms, as exponents of a regressive and unenlightened menthality.
Dr. J. Sliupas founded, alone or in collaboration with others many organizations: Friends of Lithuania, Alliance of All the Lithuanians in America, Lithuanian Learned Society, Lithuanian Freethinkers’ Alliance and Lithuanian Socialist Alliance.
During World War I Sliupas was prominent in the action to reestablish independent Lithuania. He chaired the Lithuanian Autonomy Fund, which provided financial help for the reconsruction of Lithuania, and was a member of the American Lithuanian Council.
In 1917 he took part in Lithuanian conferences in Russia and Sweden.
In 1919 he helped organize the Lithuanian mission in London and served on the Lithuanian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference. Returning to Lithuania in the summer of 1919, he was appointed his country’s first minister to the states of Latvia and Estonia.
From 1925-30 he taught history of medicine at the University of Kaunas.
He was awarded honorary doctoral degrees by the university’s medical, humanities, and law faculties.
In 1933 he was elected mayor of Palanga.
He withdrew from Lithuania in anticipation of the second Soviet invasion (1944); he died in Berlin in 1944." (Museums of Lithuania)

 

Curonian Spit Inhabitants' Trades Exposition

Info Telefon: +370-469-52372

September-June:
On Tuesdays - Sundays from 11.00 to 17.00 h.
July - August:
On Tuesdays - Sundays from 11.00 to 19.00 h.

The exposition presents traditional trades of the Curonian Spit inhabitants such as fishing, crow catching.
The rich collection of fishing tackle is displayed, as well as models of small craft, the small Curonian boat (kurenas) and the big Curonian boat.

 

Zemaitija National Park, Plateliai Visitor Centre

Fax.: +370 448 49337

Info Telefon: +370 448 49231
Besucher-Email: info@zemaitijosnp.lt
http://www.zemaitijosnp.lt/index.php?id=...

I-IV – 8:00-17:00
V – 8:00-15:45
Lunch-hour: 12:00-12:45
Rest days: Saturday, Sunday
Visit the Exposition of Nature!

The Zemaitija National Park was established in 1991 in an attempt to protect the typical Zemaiciai (Lowlands) landscape, some 150 old farmsteads, and a popular site of worship - Zemaiciu Kalvarija. the park covers a territory of 20 thousand hectares.
Among the numerous ancient castle hills and settlements in the Zemaitija National Park, Zemaiciu Kalvarija is one of the most interesting. It was first mentioned in written sources in 1253 when it was still called Gardai. At the present time the settlement boast a complex of structures that were used for worship as early as the 9th century and 19 Roman Catholic chapels, built in the 18th - 20th centuries.
Of the water bodies on the territory of the park, Lake Plateliai is by far the largest (1210 ha) and most beautiful. The town of Plateliai, situated on the shore of the lake, is the seat of the park's administration and also a popular tourist place. The church and its belfry are architectural monuments. There is also a beautiful park, a yachting club and a number of holiday centres in Plateliai.
About fifty per cent of the park's territory is woodlands, mostly fir-tree forests. The woods of Paplateliai, Plokstine, Stribaiciai and others are the habitat of a number of rare and protected bird species, such as Haliaetus albicilla, Falco piligrimus and Gavia arctica.

 

Castle Museum

Lithuania Minor History Museum

"In the northwestern part of the castle-site the archaeological investigations are taking place during which secret entrances are restored, archaeological exposures and remaining castle bastions are preserved.
A conception for two expositions of the Museum is ready (“Military activities of the Curonians” and “Castle and Town from the 13th to the 17th centuries”), virtual designs for expositions. The first stage of work should be completed in 2002. At that time the Museum will open its door for visitors." (Museum of Lithuania)

 

Lithuania Minor History Museum

Tel.: +370-46-410523

Info Telefon: +370-46-410524
Besucher-Email: info@mlimuziejus.lt, mlieismu@takas.lt
http://www.mlimuziejus.lt...

Tuesday to Saturday 10.00-18.00 h.

"In 1964 the first permanent exposition was arranged.
In 1966 the subsidiary of the Klaipeda Ethnography Museum was established as the Curonian Spit History Museum and all exhibits related to the Curonian Spit and the Curonian Bay were transferred to it.
In 1967 the Sea Section was established in the Ethnography Museum and afterwards it developed into an independent museum - Lithuanian Sea Museum.
On June 17, 1988 the Klaipeda Ethnography Museum was renamed as the Lithuania Minor History Museum. The ancient framework buildings located in the old city, Didzioji Vandens St., were transferred to the Museum.
Founder of the museum is Municipality of Klaipeda City.
Main collections:
Archaeology;
Cartography;
Numismatics;
Ethnography;
History (documents, printings, iconography)." (Museums of Lithuania)
Picture: Administration