Guide in Vilnius

Duration: 2 hours
Location: suggested to visit on the way to Kaunas
Transportation: mini van

Highlights:

  • You will explore five etnographic regions of Lithuania with original century old buildings
  • You can enter houses and learn about daily life
  • You will see and touch original wooden toys

Open Air Museum of Lithuania is a unique and one of the largest (195 ha) open-air ethnographic museum in Europe. It consists 140 buildings and over 88 000 mobile exhibits. It is a perfect way to see, understand and experience how Lithuanian peasants used to live. There are fragments of the villages, authentic farms, century-old buildings with flower gardens, orchards and vegetable gardens, with crosses and wooden roofed poles, technical facilities – mills, forges, a fulling-mill and oil-mill lining along 7 km circular route, meandering between forests, meadows and hills. 

Gallery