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Attention!
Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum will be closed:
- April 30 – museum clean-up day;
- May 1st – International Workers’ Day;
- May 4th – Mother’s Day.
We invite you to visit on other days!
Timetable of the Guided Tours at Weekends
Only general organised guided tours take place in Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum at weekends. Pre-booking is not possible: the person who purchased the ticket earlier acquires the priority to participate in the guided tour. The maximum number of participants in a tour is 25 people. A special ticket for a participant of an organised guided tour (11 Eur or with a discount – 6 Eur per person) will allow visitors to visit the museum expositions as well as join thematic or guided tours organised at certain times. TIMETABLE OF THE GUIDED TOURS* In English: 12:00 Overview guided tour THE NINTH FORT: FROM FORTIFICATION TO THE MUSEUM (120 min) In Lithuanian: 11:00 Extended thematic guided tour THE DEFENSIVE WALL OF THE NINTH FORT: THE UNDERGROUND (70 min) 13:00 Overview guided tour THE NINTH FORT: FROM FORTIFICATION TO THE MUSEUM (120 min) 14:00 Extended thematic guided tour THE DEFENSIVE WALL OF THE NINTH FORT: THE UNDERGROUND (70 min) 15:00 Extended thematic guided tour THE DEFENSIVE WALL OF THE NINTH FORT: THE UNDERGROUND (70 min) *Except for the last Sunday of every month and public holidays
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Important Information for the Visitors
On the last Sunday of each month all visitors can visit the museum free of charge. Guided tours in English on the last Sunday of the month are not available. The free tickets must be collected on the day of the visit at the ticket office located at Žemaičių pl. 73.
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MUSEUM NIGHT 2025
On Museum Night (May 17), we invite you to spend the evening at the Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum, where an immersive musical storytelling performance-walk and free admission to the Ninth Fort exhibitions await. In the exhibitions, silent exhibits preserving memories of the past will allow you to take a close look at the complex 20th-century history of Lithuania. PROGRAMME 18:00 Storytelling Performance-Walk “Songs of the Partisan Women” | Milda Varnauskaitė, Ariane Pawin, Oksana Zhuravel-Ohorodnyk 19:00–23:00 Free admission to the museum exhibitions (Žemaičių plentas 73, Kaunas) SONGS OF THE PARTISAN WOMEN What does it mean to resist? To not give in and to maintain strength even in the most terrible moments? “Songs of the Partisan Women” is a trilingual musical storytelling performance-walk about women combatants in Lithuania, France, and Ukraine. From yesterday until today. In France, during the Second World War, with weapons in their hands or typewriters under their arms, carrying suitcases or producing false documents – women occupied all positions of resistance against the Nazis. In Lithuania, from 1944, wanting to fight against the Soviet occupation, they, like men, went underground. Together with them, they went into the forest, fought, and became involved in the partisan war: working as liaisons, ...
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GARDEN OF JUNE 2025
On June 13, Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum invites you to the artistic evening “Garden of June 2025”. This year’s program will combine literature, contemporary dance and music. The event will feature the presentation of Algis Vyšniūnas’ latest book, a performance by the Kaunas Dance Theatre “Aura”, and the musical compositions of the band “Baltos varnos”, Kazimieras Likša and other performers. Let’s gather in the “Garden of June” on June 13, 2025! The event is free, no registration is required. PROGRAMME 17.00–18.30 Meeting with Algis Vyšniūnas and the presentation of his latest book (in Lithuanian) 18.30–21.30 Creative path for children 19.00–19.45 Kaunas Dance Theatre “Aura” performance “I Wish to Be the Blossom of a Fern” 20.00–21.20 Sung Poetry | “Baltos varnos”, Kazimieras Likša, Rugilė Balandytė, Pijus Mašutko and Dominyka Kairytė BOOK PRESENTATION (in Lithuanian). Architecture professor, author of historical books Algis Vyšniūnas will present his book about the Kengir uprising, published this year. After the restoration of Lithuania’s independence, A. Vyšniūnas has organised several expeditions to the places of deportation and imprisonment of Lithuanian residents: Kazakhstan, Magadan, Yakutia, and led the “Mission Siberia” project to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. During the meeting at the museum, the author will talk about the shocking history ...
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Free Admission to the Museum for Ukrainian Citizens
We invite Ukrainian citizens to visit the expositions of Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum and to participate in our guided tours free of charge. All you need to do is provide an identity document at the ticket office. Registration to the guided tours is available via phone +370 686 26243 or e-mail muziejus@9fortomuziejus.lt Relevant information: www.ltua.lt. — Запрошуємо громадян України відвідати експозиції Каунаського музею IX форту та взяти участь в екскурсіях музеєм безкоштовно. Все, що потрібно для цього зробити – пред’явити своє посвідчення особи. Попередній запис на екскурсію проводиться за телефоном +370 686 26243 або ел. поштою muziejus@9fortomuziejus.lt Інформація для громадян України: www.ltua.lt. — Приглашаем граждан Украины посетить экспозиции Каунасского музея IX форта и принять участие в экскурсиях по музею бесплатно. Всё, что необходимо для этого сделать, это в кассе предъявить свое удостоверение личности. Предварительная запись на экскурсии производится по телефону +370 686 26243 или по эл. почте muziejus@9fortomuziejus.lt Актуальная информация: www.ltua.lt.
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ANIMITAS by Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski (b. 1944 Paris, France, d. 2021, Paris, France) Animitas (Kaunas), 2021 230 Japanese bells, Plexiglas, nylon Christian-Liberté Boltanski was born on September 6, 1944, two weeks after the liberation of France in World War II. During the war, his father, a Jew from Ukraine who later converted to Christianity, was hiding in the family apartment so as not to be found by the Nazis and French authorities. For over sixty years, the artist created works that offer meditations on fate, mourning and memory. Following his father’s death in 1987, Boltanski’s work increasingly focused on the Shoah (the Holocaust) as he incorporated the subjects of death and commemoration. Since this time, he also worked outside the museum in symbolic and charged places. When first approached for a commission to commemorate Kaunas 2022, Boltanski was drawn to significant sites associated to traumatic events and Jewish histories. The artist knew of the 900 French prisoners held at the Ninth Fort, who were imprisoned and executed alongside 30,000 other Jews from Lithuania, Austria, Poland, the Soviet Union and Germany. When we consider that his family lived in constant fear of his father being caught, this site also relates to the artist’s personal ...
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