kaunas city Museum

Contacts
Address: M. Valančiaus g. 6, LT-44275, Kaunas.
Tel.: (+370 ~ 37) 20 82 20, (+370 ~ 37) 32 25 84.
E-mail: miestomuziejus[at]kaunas.sav.lt
http://kaunomuziejus.lt
Director – Rita Garbaravičienė, tel. (+370 ~ 37) 20 79 47.
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Information for Visitor

Opening hours:
Tuesday to Friday 9–17.
Saturday 10–16.

Admission:
adults – 4 Lt;
pupils, students, seniors, active service officers – 2 Lt.
Free entrance for: children under school age, children from foster home, children under social support, the disabled of Group I and Group II, museologists of Lithuanian republican museums, members of International Council of Museums.

Guided tours:
charge – 15 Lt, 25 Lt.
To order please call (+370 ~ 37) 20 82 20.

Collections
The museum accumulates collections of the city history, science and industry, culture and art, sound and video, and archaeology.

Expositions

Kaunas in the signs of time
The exposition presents the history of Kaunas, covering the period from ancient times to 1940.

Streets of the city
Visitors are invited to walk along the stylized early 20th century street in Kaunas. In old photographs one can see some examples of the city architecture, festivals, and some everyday life views of citizens, markets, stores.

The cardinal Vincentas Sladkevičius’ memorial flat
Cardinal Vincentas Sladkevičius (1920–2000) is the honorary citizen of Kaunas. Three authentically restored rooms reflect the cardinal’s life and his spiritual path. Among the displayed relics rank photographs, documents, and the cardinal’s personal belongings. Cardinal V. Sladkevičius resided in this house from 1990 to 2000.
The heritage of sacral art of the archbishopric of Kaunas is featured in the cardinal’s former drawing-room. The exhibition presents paintings, sculptures and books of a particular artistic and historical value.

Chronicle of the Lithuanian Catholic Church
The exposition “Chronicle of the Lithuanian Catholic Church” presents the publishing and spreading history. On display one can find volumes of the Chronicle in different languages. In addition, one can acquaint himself/herself with the examples of underground catholic publishing.

Exhibitions
Museum also invites to see exhibitions of art, folk art and crafts, ceramics, photographs and other as from its own as from private collections.

Cultural and educational activity
Educational projects;
Thematic evenings;
Social events;
Lectures;
Pupil’s history competitions;
Film screenings;
Methodical conferences of the teachers;
Conferences of local historians;
Schools of junior historians;
Other activities.

Branch Museum
Exposition “Exile and Resistance”
Address: Vytauto pr. 46, LT-44322, Kaunas.
Tel. (+370 ~ 37) 32 31 79.
Director – Darius Juodis.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10–16.
This exposition reflects the period of Lithuania’s fight for freedom between 1940 and 1990. Material presented in the exposition reveals some facts about guerrilla war, people’s sufferings in exile, prisons, concentration camps and etc. The museum has collected thousands of items that witness the past: personal belongings of the partisans, prisoners of conscience and people in exile, original documents, photographs; one can also find a library and a videotape library.
The museum was opened on June 4, 1993 initiated by the Union of Lithuanian Political Prisoners and Deportees. Since 2006 it belongs to Kaunas City Museum.

Other news
The museum pursues the activities of the first Kaunas City Museum, which was opened in 1897 under the title and the Museum of Science and Industry.
The museum was renewed on October 20, 2005.
Founder of the Museum is Kaunas city Municipality.