Palanga has six museums, and five of them are no more than ten minutes’ walk from the hotel. In one you may touch the sculptures, in another the wind plays the villa’s roof, and in a third there are tens of thousands of pieces of amber.
Below you will find them all on a map, with a sign showing whether each is open right now, plus ticket prices, family tickets, free Sundays and a route for a rainy day. The most important thing to know in advance: on Mondays all the main museums are closed.
The museums on a map
- Antanas Mončys Art Museum More than 200 works by the sculptor Antanas Mončys. At his wish the sculptures may be touched, which children love.antanasmoncys.com
- Palanga Mayor Jonas Šliūpas Museum A restored wooden Tiškevičiai villa where Palanga’s first mayor lived from 1931 to 1944. The permanent exhibition is still being prepared; temporary shows are on now.Tickets online
- Museum of Exile and Resistance An exhibition on the Soviet deportations and the resistance in Vaidilutė, one of the smallest villas in the resort. It is run by volunteers.
- Palanga Resort Museum, Villa Anapilis An interactive journey through Palanga’s history, a mirror room and wind organs under the villa’s dome.kurortomuziejus.lt
- Palanga Amber Museum Tiškevičiai Palace in Birutė Park. The amber collection, inclusions and a children’s corner with the Amber Tree.Tickets online
- Dog Museum A private collection of dog figurines from all over the world and the artist Vytautas Kusas’ gallery. Phone before you go: +370 688 18820.
- Palanga Fairy Tale Park Outdoor sculptures you can touch and listen to, right next to the Mončys museum.
Ticket prices
- Amber Museum
- €6
- Resort Museum
- €5
- Jonas Šliūpas Museum
- €4
- Mončys Art Museum
- €3
- Dog Museum
- €2
- Exile and Resistance
- €0
Families and concessions
- Resort Museum: a family ticket costs €9 (one adult and up to three school-age children) or €14 (two adults and up to three children). Single tickets would come to €25.
- Jonas Šliūpas Museum: €6 (one adult and 1–4 children) or €10 (two adults and 1–4 children).
- Amber Museum: a concession ticket costs €3, or €4 in summer. From 15 May to 15 September an adult ticket is €8.
- Pre-school children go free at the Resort, Jonas Šliūpas and Amber museums.
Prices are taken from the museums’ official pages. Tickets for the Amber and Jonas Šliūpas museums can be bought online; for the others, buy them at the door.
Free Sunday
What makes each one special
The Resort Museum is housed in Villa Anapilis, first photographed in 1898. It belonged to Countess Sofija Tiškevičienė, and locals called it „ana pilis“, “that castle”. During restoration in 2015, eight tin “drums” were found under the dome: wind organs that hummed when the sea wind blew. Four halls tell Palanga’s story from a 9th-century trading settlement to the resort’s centenary, and there is a mirror room and a corner for retro photos.
The Antanas Mončys Art Museum shows sculptures, drawings, collages, whistles and masks by the modernist who lived in Paris. The artist wanted people to be able to touch his work, and that wish is still honoured here. The ground floor has changing exhibitions.
The Jonas Šliūpas Museum is in a late-19th-century wooden Tiškevičiai villa with a glazed veranda, restored in 2022–2023. The permanent exhibition about Šliūpas is still being prepared, so temporary shows are on: Antanas Gudaitis’ “Summer Workshop” runs until 19 March 2027. It is Palanga’s most accessible museum, with a lift and rooms and toilets adapted for wheelchairs.
The Amber Museum has been in the 1897 Tiškevičiai Palace since 1963. There is more about it and the park around it in our guide Birutė Park and the Amber Museum.
A rainy day, Wed–Sat
- 10.00Resort MuseumVilla Anapilis opens at ten. Allow 1–1.5 hours; for children, the mirror room and the wind organs.
- 11.45Through Birutė ParkAbout 10 minutes on foot under the pines to Tiškevičiai Palace. Stop in town for lunch on the way.
- 13.00Amber MuseumAllow an hour and a half for the collection and the parterre outside the palace. It is worth buying your ticket online.
- 15.00Jonas Šliūpas MuseumOff-season it closes at 16.00 on Saturdays, and the last tickets are sold half an hour before closing.
- 16.00Antanas Mončys Art MuseumOpen until 17.00. From here it is only a few minutes back to the hotel.
Before you go
- On Mondays all the main museums are closed. On Tuesdays the Mončys and Jonas Šliūpas museums are closed, and so is the Resort Museum in summer. On a Tuesday, choose the Amber Museum.
- On public holidays museums are usually closed, and on the day before, the Amber and Resort museums close an hour early.
- Last admission: the Amber Museum’s ticket office closes an hour before closing time; the Resort and Jonas Šliūpas museums let visitors in until half an hour before closing.
- On summer evenings the Amber Museum is open until 20.00 (19.00 on Sundays), and the Resort Museum until 19.00 all year round.
- The Mončys museum warns that its hours may change, and the Dog Museum also opens by appointment, so it is worth phoning ahead.
Worth knowing
Sources
Where this information comes from
- Palanga Resort Museum: opening hours
- Palanga Resort Museum: prices
- Villa Anapilis: history and the wind organs
- Antanas Mončys Art Museum: prices and opening hours
- Lithuanian National Museum: Jonas Šliūpas Museum
- Jonas Šliūpas Museum tickets
- LNM holiday opening hours, 2026
- Palanga Amber Museum: visiting
- Palanga Amber Museum: concessions and free Sunday
- Amber Museum tickets
- Palanga Tourism Information Centre: Exile and Resistance Museum
- Palanga Tourism Information Centre: Antanas Mončys museum
- Palanga Tourism Information Centre: Dog Museum
- Map and route: OpenStreetMap, OpenFreeMap
- Main photo: Jonas Olbergas, Unsplash
- Villa Anapilis photo: Topperis, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Opening hours and prices are taken from the museums’ official pages. The “open now” sign works on Lithuanian time but does not account for movable holidays such as Easter. Walking distances are approximate. Information checked on 21 October 2026.
