All ethnology museums to visit in Lithuania

Explore the cultural diversity and heritage at 4 ethnology museums in Lithuania. These museums offer insights into the traditions, customs, and ways of life of various communities.

Are you interested in learning about different cultures and their histories? Here are the ethnology museums to visit in Lithuania:

  1. House of Histories1

    House of Histories

     Vilnius
    The House of Histories is one of the branches of the National Museum of Lithuania. It is a space which invites visitors to experience history not as something fixed in the past but as integral to the reality we are creating today. Here visitors can explore and discuss different ways of understand
  2. Jonas Basanavičius Birthplace2

    Jonas Basanavičius Birthplace

     Vilkaviškis
    Located in the village of Ožkabaliai, Vilkaviškis region, the birthplace of Jonas Basanavičius is one of only three National Museum of Lithuania branches located outside of Lithuania’s capital. Basanavičius’s own publications about Lithuanian folklore and mythology; personal effects that belonged
  3. Vincas Kudirka Museum3

    Vincas Kudirka Museum

     Kudirkos Naumiestis
    The Vincas Kudirka Museum introduces visitors to Vincas Kudirka, the author of the Lithuanian anthem, as well as the town in which he spent the final years of his life. The exhibit includes items related to Kudirka’s life and person – a piano he played while visiting friends in Warsaw; an origina
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    Museum of the Custom

     Vilnius
    The Museum of the Custom is a museum in Vilnius that is devoted to the history of the Lithuanian Customs under the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Russian Empire and after the re-establishment of the Lithuanian State in 1918. The collection of the museum includes documents, photographs and postcards th