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Archaeological & Historical Museum
This absorbing museum traces the history of the area from 9000 BC to the 13th and 14th centuries AD. There is a wealth of artefacts on display – pottery, Iron Age tools, intricate horn seals – but the highlights are the gilded head decorations, silver jewellery from Russia and cowr
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Theatre, Music & Cinema Museum
Artefacts of Lithuanian song, stage and screen are the stars of this museum. Three centuries of notable instruments – including the pūslinė (a primitive Baltic string instrument made from animal bladders) and several kanklės (plucked, fretted string instruments) – are exhibited, al
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Holocaust Museum
The Holocaust Museum tells the unvarnished account of the destruction of Lithuanias once-vibrant Jewish community, the Litvaks, through a collection of photos, documentation and first-hand accounts. Situated in the so-called ‘Green House’, the displays lack modern interactive touch
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Karaite Ethnographic Museum
The Karaite Ethnographic Museum traces the ancestry of the Karaites, a Judaic sect and Turkic minority originating in Baghdad, which adheres to the Law of Moses. Their descendants – some 380 families – were brought to Trakai from the Crimea around 1400 to serve as bodyguards. Only
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House of Signatories
Lithuanias Declaration of Independence was signed here on 16 February 1918. Now, across 14 rooms of this 18th-century house, youll find a reverent exhibition of materials relating to the National Movement and the signatories themselves. Independence didn’t last long; by 1920 the Po
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TV Tower
It’s hard to miss the 326m TV tower on the city’s western horizon. This tall needle symbolises Lithuania’s strength of spirit: on 13 January 1991 the Soviet army killed 12 pro-Independence resisters here, with Lithuanian TV continuing to broadcast until troops burst through the tow
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Vingis Park
At the western end of Čiurlionio gatvė is the wooded Vingis Park, surrounded on three sides by the Neris. The park has a large open-air amphitheatre used for the Lithuanian Song and Dance Festival (in July). Take trolleybus 7 from the train station or 3 from the Gedimino stop on Vi
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National Museum of Lithuania
Building on the collections complied by the Museum of Antiquities since 1855, this splendid museum shows artefacts from Lithuanian life from Neolithic times to the 20th century. It has special collections devoted to the countrys different folk traditions, to numismatics (including
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Chapel of the Gates of Dawn
Above the Gates of Dawn youll find this 18th-century chapel, aka the Gate of Dawn Chapel of Mary the Mother of Mercy. Inside is a venerated painting of the Virgin Mary, known as the Madonna of the Gates of Dawn, believed to date from the early 17th century. It is revered equally by
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Castle
Originally built by the Teutonic Order in the 13th century, and nearly completely razed in the late 19th (after centuries of neglect), Klaipėda Castle is rising again. Above the surviving moat and earth ramparts a huge reconstruction project is underway, promising to restore the se
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Museum of Cats
Cat-lovers will certainly want to venture out to this museum southeast of the centre to see an unusual collection of feline memorabilia, including endless displays of porcelain cats and photogenic felines on the walls. There are even a couple of live cats on the premises that shado
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Lithuanian Ethnocosmology Museum
This unusual museum explores the cosmos’s connection to cultural ideas of hell, heaven and earth in its bubble-shaped exhibition centre. Dwarfing it are two observation towers housing telescopes providing outstanding views of the surrounding lakeland. Night tours with English-speak
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Sts Johns’ Church
The full name is Church of St Johns, St John the Baptist and St John the Apostle and Evangelist, but St Johns (plural) will do nicely. Founded in 1387, it predates the 16th-century University within which it is situated, although the present late-baroque structure was built followi
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Biržai Regional Park
The region around Biržai is famous for its karst sink-holes, formed when underground water sources wash away the gypsum supporting the soil. More than 9000 of these holes, including the 12.6m-deep Cows Cave (so-called because an unhappy bovine was swallowed up when it opened, 200 y
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Parliament House
This squat, unlovely Soviet-built palace, home to the Lithuanian Seimas (Parliament), was the scene of a historic stand-off. On 13 January 1991 barricades were thrown up to deter Soviet troops acting to crush the movement that had passed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State
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Aukštieji Šančiai Cemetery
Beloved Lithuanian pilots Steponas Darius and Stanislovas Girėnas died on 15 July 1933, just 650km short of completing the longest nonstop transatlantic flight at the time. Two days after the duo set off from New York, 25,000 people gathered at Kaunas airport for their triumphant r
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Frenkelis Villa
To the east of the town centre stands Frenkelis Villa, built in art-nouveau style in 1908 for the then leather baron of Šiauliai. It survived WWII unscathed and was used as a military hospital by the Soviets from 1944 until 1993, at which time it was turned over to the city. The ex
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Plateliai Manor Museum Complex
The old granary and stable of the former Plateliai Manor now houses a highly worthwhile museum complex. The granary holds a multistorey exhibition dedicated to the nature, history and ethnography of the area, as well as archaeological findings from Sventrokalnis and Pilies islands
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Museum of the Ninth Fort
A poignant memorial to the tens of thousands of people, mainly Jews, who were murdered by the Nazis, the excellent Museum of the Ninth Fort, 7km north of Kaunas, comprises an old WWI-era fort and the bunker-like church of the damned. Displays cover deportations of Lithuanians by th
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Museum of Applied Art
The Old Arsenal, built in the 16th century and restored in the 1980s, houses temporary exhibitions and a permanent collection showcasing 15th- to 19th-century Lithuanian sacred art. Many pieces were discovered in Vilnius Cathedral in 1985 after being hidden in the walls by Russian
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