Communication Development Museum

Fax.: +370-37-424344

Info Telefon: +370-37-424920
Besucher-Email: Angele.Lekaviciene@teo.lt

Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays 10.00-18.00 h.

"The museum is housed in the former 19th century postal buildings.
In 1825 a Mail Department was set up there with a post office, mail coaches, stables and lodging rooms for passengers.
From 1898 to 1936 a City Museum was in operation there, headed (1906-1919) by Tadas Daugirdas (1852-1919), a public figure and archaeologist.
After the Second World War, Soviet Army Aviation unit occupied the museum complex for a long period. At that time the museum complex was not being restored. At the start of 9th decade, due to the initiative and funding by the Ministry of Communications the Museum's complex was restored. Project author Saule Mickeviciene maintained original plan and architectural authenticity of the complex.
Museum of Postal Services, Telecommunications and Informatics was opened on March 10th in 1994.
The first exponents were donated by Telecom, post offices, the firm "Telephonservice" and workers of the Ministry of Communications.
In 2001 the museum renamed in Communication Development Museum.

The museum contains collections of postal documents, stamps, and 20th century communications technology.
At the Museum's exposition and funds are accumulated more than 400 units about Lithuania's and other nations' developments of connections mail, radio, telegraph, telephone information exponents, documents, photos. A selection of postage stamps is constantly exhibited. " (Museums of Lithuania 2007)


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Kaunas Puppet Theatre Museum

Info Telefon: +370-37-221691
Besucher-Email: info@kaunoleles.lt, kauno.lel.tetras@takas.lt
http://www.kaunoleles.lt/muziejus.html...

"The museum contains collections of puppets, masks, stage props, other elements of stage settings, and memorabilia of past performances." (Museums of Lithuania 2007)

 

Lithuanian Sport Museum

Fax.: +370 37 1204934

Info Telefon: +370 37 22069
Besucher-Email: sportomuziejus@yahoo.com

Tuesday to Saturday 11.00–17.00 h
On every last Tuesday in month the museum is closed.

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"The most popular sport branch in Lithuania - basketball - occupies the most of the museum area. Among the exhibits is Jones Cup (taken by the ‘Zalgiris’ basketball team in 1986), personal belongings of the basketball players M. Paulauskas and A. Sabonis, etc.
Another sport branches, such as football, handball, boxing, swimming, and rowing, are also represented in the museum’s exposition. The exhibits reflect the life of Lithuanian sportsmen in emigration and exile, the achievements of Lithuanian sport in emigration. In the museum, an original award waist-belt decorated with medals of the Lithuanian P. Mikulicius, a boxing champion of Australia, and a tennis racket belonging to Vitas Gerulaitis are displayed." (Museums of Lithuania 2007)





 

Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum

Tel.: +370-37-207477
Fax.: +370-37-207477

Info Telefon: +370-37-201284
Besucher-Email: jmaironis@takas.lt
http://www.maironiomuziejus.lt...

Tuesday to Saturday 9.00-17.00 h.

"The museum is located in an 18th century mansion which was built on the foundations of three 16th century buildings some fragments of which are still visible. In 1909 Jonas Maciulis-Maironis (1862-1932) purchased the mansion, a Roman Catholic priest and famous Lithuanian poet. The home of Maironis reflects the cultural history of Kaunas and the entire country during that period. The museum dates back to 1936, when the first three rooms commemorating Maironis were opened to the public, while the writer’s authentic apartment was restored only in 1992. As far back as 1941 the Maironis Museum started accumulating other writers collections. Eventually it grew into a museum of Lithuanian literary history.

The Museum accumulates, stores and exposes the material connected to the Lithuanian literature, from folklore and the first papers up to nowadays.
There are collections of about 600 various authors who once lived in Lithuania or in emigration. All in all, the Museum contains about 200 000 exhibits. Most of them are books, manuscripts, art works, memorial articles, documents, printings etc." (Museums of Lithuania 2007)

 

Museum of the History of Lithuania Medicine and Pharmacy

Info Telefon: +370-37-201569
Besucher-Email: lmfmuziejus@med.kmu.lt

Tuesday to Saturday 10.00-18.00 h.

"Pharmacy department exposition
There one could enjoy the scenes of pre-history of medicine and pharmacy - watching exhibition stands arranged with great inventiveness and authenticity and showing a shaman curing a baby (some Lithuanian exiles witnessed such a scene in Siberian taiga only some 40 years ago) as well as a Lithuanian sorceress.
Officina, or the prescription room
Officinas have been used as reception rooms for customers and sales-rooms for those who had wanted to buy anything without a doctor's prescription. The furniture you can see in this officina was manufactured in the beginning of the 20th century and it was brought here from the drug store situated in Kauno Street, Vilnius. The shelves of this room are full of old drugs and other medical accessories. Some of them are really thrilling, e. g. tincture of Venus' hair recommended to women as an elixir of youth and beauty, balsam of men's strength or mysterious powder that was used in the Middle Ages for epilepsy treating and called "Caput Mortum" which actually means dried and grinded heads of dead people…

Coctoria
(Lat. Coquere - to produce, cook, dry) used to be one of the main premises in a chemist's shop because here pharmacists used to produce infusions and decoctions, to wash and dry dishes, to distil water. Very often a desk of the owner of a shop used to be arranged here. The equipment exhibited in this room was used at Lithuanian town and village drug-stories in the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century.

Store-room
All larger drug stores used to be equipped by a locked storeroom for keeping reserves of various raw materials including poisonous and violently acting stuff.

Laboratory
Until 19th century bigger drug stores different necessary preparations were manufactured by the chemists' shops themselves. The Museum exposition exhibits vapour equipment for producing Galenicals; it has been used at Kaunas Red Cross chemist's shop laboratory. Other apparatus were used at Kaunas SANITAS Chemical-Pharmacy Laboratory in 1922 to 1950.

Cellar
You just can't miss a cellar typical to those possessed by all old drug-stores and used for keeping materials that needed lower temperature (oils, fat) and performing some technological operations, i. e. crushing and pulverising raw materials as well as for ointment and liniment production.
The upper floor of the Museum is meant for demonstrating exhibits, that describe pharmacy development in Lithuania before the Soviet occupation and show the samples of labelled medical preparations as well as survey the further evolution of pharmacy in the country.

Medicine history exposition
Exposition tells about Lithuanian medicine in 1918-1940, and the history of the Kaunas Medical Academy. Open to visitors are restored offices of the ophthalmologist V. Janulaityte-Alseikiene (1883-1971) and the dentist S. Prapuolenyte-Cerkeliuniene (1892-1979), and X-ray facilities of S. Laurinavicius (1892-1978)." (Museums of Lithuania 2007)


 

The Ceramics Museum

Info Telefon: +370-37-203572

M. K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum

Tuesday to Sunday 11.00-17.00 h

The collections contain historic and the 20th century Lithuanian ceramics. Lithuanian porcelain is in the museum's collection, exhibit articles, displays reflecting Lithuania's ceramic history.

 

Juozas Tumas-Vaizgantas Museum

Info Telefon: +370-37-222371
Besucher-Email: jmaironis@takas.lt
http://www.maironiomuziejus.lt...

Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum

Please, call for opening hours.

The museum opened in the home of writer J. Tumas-Vaizgantas where he lived from 1920 to 1933

 

Museum of Gemology (Precious Stones)

Fax.: +370-37-227780

Info Telefon: +370-37-227780

Monday to Friday 10.00-18.00 h.
Saturday 10.00-16.00 h.

"The museum exhibits precious and semi-precious stones and rare minerals from various finds around the world." (Museums of Lithuania 2007)

 

P. Stulga Lithuanian Folk Music Museum

Tel.: +370-37-206820

Info Telefon: +370-37-422295
Besucher-Email: kaunomuzik.muz@qmail.com

Kaunas City Council

October – March:
Tuesday to Saturday 9.00–17.00 h
April – September:
Tuesday to Saturday 10.00–18.00 h.

"The collection consists of the following:
Lithuanian national musical instruments;
International musical instruments used in Lithuania long since;
Musical instruments of world nations;
Musical records, books about music, placards, photos and letters." (Museums of Lithuania 2007)

 

The Historical Presidential Palace of Lithuania

Tel.: +370-37-320589

Info Telefon: +370-698-02189
Besucher-Email: info@istorineprezidentura.lt
http://www.istorineprezidentura.lt/...

M. K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum

Tues-Sun 11-17 h

"The Presidential Palace is open since July 6, 2005.
Exhibition presents never been shown or rarely shown memorial objects, artworks, furniture that was passed for preservation to the National Museum of M. K. Ciurlionis in 1941. Objects, which relate to presidential institution of the First Republic (1918–1940) and reflect the aspirations of that period, historical peripeteia and lifestyle, were returned to their initial premise. Representational portraits, art works from the interiors of Presidential Palace are exhibited here, also – the presents received by the president, authentic furniture, historical photographs that capture international and social activities of the president, moments of his personal life. Separate hall is dedicated to the presentation of public organizations supported by the Presidents institution. It presents collection of flags of these organizations, documents, and various attributes, which survived during political upheavals. Personal family relics, tableware that belonged to the presidents and especially last president who resided in the Palace – president A. Smetona, complement the exhibition. It also features rich collection of folk textile collected by the president K. Grinius and his wife. Remaining guest books, even documents tracing personal expenses and receptions for numerous guests of Presidential Palace illustrate the traditions of this place.
Highlight of the exhibition is the unique collection of state awards, returned to the Palace after 65 years. It reflects the formation and development of the state and the perception of statehood." (Museums of Lithuania 2007)