The Lithuanian Aviation Museum (LAM) is an institution subordinate to the Ministry of Culture, which takes care of collecting, storing, researching, conserving, restoring, and popularizing the history of aviation and fire rescue service equipment.

 

Contact information

+370 37 390 357 | edukacijos@lam.lt

Administration

+370 37 295 547 | aviacijos.muziejus@gmail.com

 

EXHIBITION IN KAUNAS

Monday: 10 AM – 4 PM*
Tuesday-Saturday: 10 AM – 6 PM*

*Visitors are admitted to the exhibition no later than 30 minutes before closing time.

Every last Sunday of the month the museum is open for free 10 AM – 4 PM.

Contacts for educational activities and additional services:
+370 37 390 357
edukacijos@lam.lt

 

BIRTHPLACES-MUSEUMS

Steponas Darius birthplace-museum
Located in Darius Village, Judrėnai, Klaipėda District, 96292.

Open: Tuesday – Saturday: 10 AM – 5 PM.

Every last Sunday of the month the museum is open for free 10 AM – 4 PM.

Contacts
Email: s.dariausgimtine@lam.lt
Tel.: +370 46 319 767

Stasys Girėnas birthplace-museum
Located in Vytogala, Upyna Ward, Šilalė District, 75244.

Open: Tuesday – Saturday: 10 AM – 5 PM.

Every last Sunday of the month the museum is open for free 10 AM – 4 PM.

Contacts
Email: s.girenogimtine@lam.lt
Tel.: +370 691 88349

 

HISTORY

The museum was established in 1990. February 19 (until February 1, 1995, it was called the Lithuanian Technical Museum), located in Kaunas, Aleksotas, on the territory of S. Darius and S. Girėnas airfield.

LAM’s predecessor – the Public Sports Aviation Museum – was started in 1971 with the efforts of Lithuanian aviators and was officially opened in 1983.

Since 1991 The homesteads of S. Darius and S. Girėnas, rebuilt with the efforts of aviator Vytautas Pakarskas, became the units of LAM. Memorial expositions reminding the history of the flight across the Atlantic were established there, complemented by ethnographic exhibits of the Žemaitija region.

EXHIBITS

Over 24,000 exhibits are kept in the museum’s collections (including over 50 flying machines), and the exhibition area reaches 2,179 square meters.

Large-sized aircraft and Fire Rescue Service equipment are exhibited on a 2 ha open field. The specialized library of the museum has about 19 thousand publications.

The most popular exhibit is the flyable replica of the legendary “Lituanica”, designed and built by the famous aviator Vladas Kensgaila in 1982, during the making of the film “Flight across the Atlantic”.

The pride of the museum are Lithuanian gliders used in Lithuania, among which Bronius Oškinis’ glider collection stands out.

Sports planes used in Lithuania, planes of the Lithuanian and Polish air forces, helicopters of the Air Force and the State Border Guard Service are on display.

On the site you can see the participant of the “Baltic Way” – the plane An-2.

Visitors can familiarize themselves with the collection of aircraft engines, airplane models, historical photos, and other exhibits discovering the indoor exhibition “Flight starts here“, presenting the history of flight in Lithuania from its first attempts to impressive historic achievements.

COOPERATION

The museum cooperates with:

• Air Force of the Lithuanian Armed Forces,
• Union of Kaunas Aviation Veterans,
• Lithuanian Aeroclub,
• A. Gustaitis‘ Aviation Institute of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University,
• B. Oškinis’ Children’s Aviation School,
• joint-stock companies “Helisota”, “Sportinė aviacija”, “Termikas”,
• Kaunas County Fire Rescue Service.
• The museum also liaises with aviation museums, aviation historians, and publishers in other countries.