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Dear museum visitors, we would like to inform you that from the 16th of October, the museum's interior expositions are closed for the winter season. The interior expositions will be opened again on the 1st of May, 2025. The museum remains open like a park: we invite you to take a walk, admire the autumn colors, and exterior expositions, and spend a day in the fresh air.

Did you know you can go around Lithuania by bicycle in the Open Air Museum of Lithuania? Here - it's like a reduced version of the whole of Lithuania, you'll be able to go around everything in one day!

September 7th – a special day that will bring together current and former residents of Rumšiškės and Kaišiadorys regions. In this concert performance music, local stories, and poems will be combined.

The Assumption of Mary Feast is a fun holiday because the harvest is already at home. You know how much you have stocked up for the winter, how much jam you have boiled, how much grain you have in the granary. Therefore, songs, dances, and jokes are suitable for this day.

Inter-war Lithuania is often depicted as a state with deep Catholic traditions and high moral standards. Harsh censorship was in effect here and sales of obscene books were prohibited. Yet, were Lithuanians really afraid of nudity, had only marital sex and knew nothing about either syphilis or love for hire? The red-light district in Kaunas City, legal prostitution, the abundance of sexually transmitted diseases, and kiosks full of multiple types of condoms suggest that people from the past were not that different from us, and in some cases, even surpassed the present.