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Vilnius
Picture Gallery: |
 Lithuanian
Art from the 16th to the early 20th century
The display is a combination of historic interiors of the Chodkevičiai Palace
and exhibition rooms featuring Lithuanian art from the sixteenth through the
early twentieth century. The exhibition reveals the course of Lithuanian art in
a comprehensive and consistent manner, including also the cultural revival at
the turn of the twentieth century and the first exhibitions of Lithuanian art.
From its inception, the exhibition, besides highlighting the architectural
beauty of the of the Chodkevičiai Palace, and of the artworks displayed, was
intended to capture the spirit of Vilnius in the first half of the nineteenth
century and introduce renowned personalities of Vilnius who significantly
contributed to Lithuanian culture.
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M. K.
Čiurlionis National Art Museum: |
 Pictorial
and Graphic Art of M. K. Čiurlionis
The exposition features a great number of paintings of the profound
Lithuanian artist M. K. Čiurlionis (1875–1911).
In the music hall the visitors can listen to the recordings of M. K.
Čiurlionis’ music and also enjoy live piano music. |
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National Museum of Lithuania: |
 Lithuanian
State and Culture History
Expositions: Prehistory
of Lithuania; Exposition of the History of
Old Lithuania; Exhibition Dedicated to
Vilnius Museum of Antiquities; Lithuanian Ethnic
Culture.
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The Museum of Genocide Victims: |
 Historical-documentary material reflecting repression taken against
the inhabitants of Lithuania by occupational regimes (1940–1990),
material on the anti-Soviet and anti-Nazi resistance, information
about participants of struggles for freedom and victims of genocide
are accumulated. The central part of the exposition is the internal prison (interrogation
chambers) of the NKVD-MGB-KGB. |
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Lithuanian
Sea Museum: |
 The museum collections include the sea fauna and insects, archaeological,
ethnographic and iconographical items, coins, documents, ships and their
equipment.
Expositions: Sea mammals and birds
exposition; Aquarium; Marine fauna exposition; Navigation
history exposition; Dolphinarium; Crustacean and Echinoderms. |
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Trakai
History Museum: |
 Museum and its
expositions reflect the history of Trakai town, Trakai
castles and Trakai land
In the western casemates of Trakai Island castle there operate
exposition halls, where one can find art and craft showpieces: collections of
furniture, pipes, stamps, clocks, China blue and glass, hunting salvages.
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Open-Air Museum of Lithuania: |
 Lithuanian
country life
The core of the museum – dwelling houses and economic buildings
transferred from different regions of Lithuania. The buildings are
grouped in complexes: farmsteads, small villages, and towns. They
represent the most characteristic stylistic features, planning,
constructions, and decorative elements of buildings of different
epochs and social strata. |
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Open-Air Museum of the Centre of Europe: |
 Exposition
of the Museum
The
exposition spans an area of 55 hectares and displays over 100 works by
artists from different countries. Some of the works are site-specific. The
sculptures vary from those nestling on the ground to those 14 metres high
and from those occupying one square metre to those spanning an area of over
3000 square metres. |
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Palanga
Amber Museum: |
 The
History of Amber Formation, Morphology, Art Works
Palanga Amber Museum is established in the Palace of Count Felks
Tyszkiewicz, built in 1897. The museum boasts a unique collection of
amber pieces with inclusions and fossil resins, also the ancient
amber and brass jewellery pieces from the coastal burial sites
dating back to the 2nd – 12th centuries. Of interest are the amber
pieces from the 17th to 19th century, also an amber workshop
arranged as it looked in the late 19th century. The works by
contemporary amber craftsmen find their place in the museum too. |
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Mykolas Žilinskas
Art Gallery: |
 Exposition
"Museum for the Blind"
This is the only in Lithuania permanent active
contemporary art exposition dedicated to the blind and partially-sighted
people. The visitors claim that such an exposition is unique in Europe.
In the exposition “Museum for the Blind” artists present modernistic and
post modernistic works: sculpture, graphics, paintings, textile, objects and
installations. Works reflect the variety of materials, the diversity of
techniques and genre, and artists’ individual styles and thinking. |
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Devils'
Museum: |
 Collection
of Devils from Whole World
The collection consists of around 3000 articles of arts and crafts,
fine arts and souvenirs. The biggest part of the souvenir collection
is comprised of sculptures of devils made of wood, glass, textile,
porcelain and paper. The collection of devils also includes masks,
witches and other mythological characters. |
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Horse Museum: |
 Exposition of Horse Museum
Expositions of Horse Museum are exhibited in eight buildings.
Opened in 1978 on the initiative of the agronomist Petras Vasinauskas
(1906–1995), the museum has been accumulating agricultural implements and
all sorts of exhibits relating to horses and the times when horses played an
important role in people’s lives. Visitors can ride horses and drive in
carriages and carts. |
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The Museum of Genocide Victims: |
 The
exhibition dedicated to the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust in
Lithuania
The new exhibition has been mounted in ward No 3 of the former KGB
inner prison wherein there still remain inscriptions of people
imprisoned by the Gestapo during the years of the Nazi occupation
dated 1942–1944. Placed in a narrow space, the exposition displays
the material on the Nazi occupation in Lithuania, the Gestapo prison
and its inmates, the history of the Vilnius ghetto, mass murder site
in Paneriai, recent explorative studies carried out in 2008 in the
territory of the Paneriai Forest Park, as commissioned by the
Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania, as well as the
names of the non-Jewish residents of Lithuania that have been
granted the title of the Righteous among the Nations for rescuing
Jews during the Holocaust.
The exposition was made of the photographs, documents and items from
the collections of the Genocide and Resistance Research Center, the
Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, Kaunas IX Fort Museum, the
Lithuanian Central State Archive, and private persons. |
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Mažeikiai Museum: |
 “Mažeikiai Region:
among the Curonians, Semigallians and Samogitians”
The exposition is distinguished by its modern design, application of
multimedia and video material, publications of excellent printing
quality in the Lithuanian, Latvian and English languages, attributes
and souvenirs of the exhibition.
There are jewellery of the Curonians and Semigallians, arms, rings of
the Curonians, Semigallians and Samogitians as well as unique
findings, such as zoomorphic figurines, amulets, amber products,
wrought hors and extremely rare finding — the helmet — presented in
this exhibition. Besides, interpretations of Baltic articles made by
modern jewellers will also be possible to see.
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