Address
Rinktines g. 2, Vilnius.
Tel.: +370-5-2782085; +370-682-63265.
Fax +370-5-2782509.
E-mail: vilius.saduikis@pro.lpc.lt; jolita.daugviliene@pro.lpc.lt

Working hours
Tuesday to Saturday 10.00–17.00.

Additional services
Lease of Machinery room
Publishing services (setting-up texts, editing)
Organization of various events – conferences, seminars, presentations.

Museum's collection
The Museum has the original Power Plant equipment on display. The machinery room with its three turbines and generators forms the heart of the Museum. The turbins, manufactured by AEG (1911), M'AN (1913), "Brown Boveri & Co" (1925) and generators, manufactured by "Brown Boveri & Co" (1925), "Elektrosila" (1947), "Siemens-Schuckert" (1948) are in their original locations. Some of them could be brought into operation for demo purpose (by strong financial support). Next to machinery room is the control room of the Power Plant. The control board is manufactured in 1925 in Poland.
It is interesting to come into the boiler house, go alongside the steam boilers (one is from Babcoc­-Wilcox company, 1925), water pumps and experience mysterious underground labyrinth. In the yard of the Museum there is a little "technological park".
The museum's collection consists of over 2000 items, including historical electrical equipment, engineering drawings, archive documents, books, video.
The exposition also includes a model of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, created in autumn of 1983 for the exhibition in Vilnius (the Nuclear Power Plant was commissioned on 31st December, 1983).
The Museum's exposition also reflects the social history of Vilnius in the past century and the role of electricity in urban and industrial life.

History of the Museum building
Lithuanian Energy Museum was founded in the building of Vilnius Central Power Plant. The construction of this power plant was started in 1901 and commissioned into operation on February 14, 1903. Throughout the whole of its life from 1903 to 1998 Vilnius Power Plant was a symbol of the electricity to the general public, a temple of Power (though for the last 20 years the Power Plant supplied only heat to some Vilnius districts). Vilnius Power Plant survived the World War I, was destroyed by Nazi in 1944 and within two years the building was reconstructed without changing its external appearance. The façades preserved their original appearance, exept the shape of windows.
In 1999 a campaign was begun to save Power Plant as a part of the national heritage. The official opening of the Lithuanian Energy Museum was held on February 15, 2003, by celebrating the 100th anniversary of Vilnius Central Power Plant.
The building is one of the important asset of the Museum. While the architect is unknown, but it may have been designed by Boleslovas Balzukevičius, a Lithuanian artist.
The Museum takes the entire building of the plant (with formely used eguipment). Being the most complete surviving example of early Power Station, the Museum represents one of the most interesting monuments of Lithuania's industrial culture, a monument of national importance. In the year that the Power Station was built, it was one of the most modern stations of Russian Empire. On the tower of the building a sculpture "Elektra” was erected, created by the sculptor Boleslovas Balzukevicius. It was a statue of a woman with a laurel garland on the head, holding a torch with an electric lamp in her right hand, her raised left hand proclaimed the beginning of a new era of light. The man at her feet, blinded by light, shielded his eyes with his left hand, and with his right hand attempted to throw away the fading cresset. In Soviet period, the year 1957, sculpture was destroyed, and reconstructed in 1994 (sculptor – Petras Mazuras).

Other information about the museum
The Museum is located in the central part of the city, on the rigth bank of river Neris. The new bridge "King Mindaugas" links the Museum with the castle area.
A part of the museum building is under reconstruction. A new - transport - exposition is going to be placed here.
Founders of the Museum: Vilnius Municipality, Electricity Association of Lithuania, Lithuanian District Heating Association.
Director of the Museum – Vilius Šaduikis.
The Museum is a member of the Lithuanian Museums Association.

Photos by D. Mukiene and Karolis Kučiauskas Museum