rumsiskes open-air museum

If you interested in how Lithuania country looks like or how looked in the past, this is great place to visit. It is really big open air museum so I would suggest to plan all day for this museum. Open air museum is not open during cold period.

Every Lithuanian and visitor of the country must to see this museum to see and feel Lithuanian atmosphere of past. This place put you back to history and promote with so many emotions.

Plan to spend the day. Our tour guide, on our escorted 12 day trip to Lithuania, took some liberties to honor a not so unified request, and our arrival was delayed, so we did not see as much as we had hoped to do. The Lithuanian country life open-air museum contains dwelling houses and commerce buildings transferred from the 5 different regions of Lithuania. The buildings are grouped in complexes: farmsteads, small villages, and towns. They represent the most characteristic features, construction, and decorative elements of buildings of different eras and social status. They also show authentic fences, gardens, beehive, monumental features. 51 buildings with displays of furniture, clothing, kitchen items, tools, etc. In a recreated town (think Williamsburg, Virginia, USA) they have buildings to demonstrate making clay pots, processing amber, wood, metal, weaving, and a great bookstore, to include English for some books. The church is wonderful - all wood and smells heavenly. There is a recreated authentic Lithuanian tavern near the Zemaitija sector on a picturesque coast of Kaunas Lagoon. Items include a large variety of traditional hot dishes, salads, snacks, drinks, desserts and there is a tearoom with traditional Lithuanian hot snacks, salads, drinks, desserts, too. Near the Tavern is a lookout tower which you climb to view the countryside to include the large body of water nearby.

We had a lovely day out as an extended family, enjoyed a picnic and the playground as well as the walk around the buildings. Loved it!

Choose a dry day for a trip to this wonderful open air museum. A series of reconstructed genuine historical buildings are set in several acres of countryside. It is a great place to take a picnic and it makes a cheap family day out. Children can learn about history. There are spaces for them to run around without disturbing other visitors. It is quite spread out and some of the paths are rough so there is a good bit of walking. It would also make a good day out for adults who are interested in history and old buildings.

I like everything about this place so there is nothing more to say :). The place can be visited by bicycle, foot, etc.

There you will find traditional old houses and living habits examples of all 4 majors parts of Lithuania. In center part small "city" with workshops. You can do yourself or just watch how is made traditional tools, toys, plates, apparel etc.Russian bath (wet sauna) lovers can enjoy it, just please clarify time in advance.During traditional holidays (Shrovetide and Midsummeer Day) there is quite crowdy, but also you can feel joy atmosphere.

Rumsiskes Open-Air Museum is located some 20 km outside Kaunas. When you get there you can see how people of Lithuania lived many years ago. All houses there are authentic brought there from different regions of the country. If the weather is fine you'll have a lot of fun there.

Its a beautiful open-air museum of old Lithuanian villages which takes you back in time. The area is quite big so If the weather is good be prepared to walk a lot and take some snacks with you or even get a picnic basket.

Big authentic Lithuanian houses history park. Nice nature, windmills, in the midlle of a park very intersting village.

I loved all of it. It was a great site to visit and see how people lived before our modern age took over. I loved the elders that were there to share their stories with us and give us demonstrations of life on the farms and in the villages. There are also many wonderful artisans to show you their works and also to sell them to you.

Everything but the below was great.Lack of any directions, info, etc to get to the place was a drawback. As is the distance from one place to another, not for a tired tourist.

A cross between the Black Country Museum and Avoncroft (if you're from the Midlands) but on a huge site, we travelled by riverboat from Kaunas. In four distinct sections it seeks to portray rural architecture and ways of life in old Lithuania by way of a range of buildings and a village, all reconstructions. Some of the buildings were open for inspection and some had (immobile) "guides" who didn't actually offer up any information but a disappointing number were locked. Beware the toilets - very disappointing for a country that usually has presentable ones (the earth privy was absolutely awful!).

One of the biggest open air museums in Europe devided to separate etnical regions of Lithuania. Cosy wooden houses, live history presented by artisans, beautiful nature and lanscape. Don't miss the town. Possible visit by car. Nice place for picnics.

If you are in Kaunas it is worth to take one day to Rumsiskes. You can enjoy not just the houses but the nature too. On summer-time on Sunday you can go with boat from Kaunas. Boat trip is one hour and it is really wonderfull becasue around the lake everywhere is forest. (Boat ticket is a return ticket) But if you are not so much interested about houses it is worth to go there for some event like Uzgavenes, Eastern etc. We were at Uzgavenes and it was really wonderfull. People dance, sang, there were a market and I ate the most wonderful pancake there! Bad thing that there aren't so many information in English or any other language (just in Lithuanian) and you won't find maps anywhere. On your ticket you will find a little map and there will be board about the region but no map or direction how to go afterwards or where are you..