Vilnius holds Libeskind's white-wedge MO Museum, Fluxus founder George Maciunas, and a church with 2,000 stucco figures — all within walking distance. This three-day route follows the city's art from Baroque workshops to the studios of Užupis.
Daniel Libeskind's angular white building opened in 2018 and holds some 7,000 works of Lithuanian art from 1960 onward — Soviet-era nonconformists, photography, video. Two major shows rotate yearly. Closed Tuesdays.
Inside the neoclassical Chodkevičiai Palace on Didžioji, this National Museum branch hangs Lithuanian art from 1700 to 1945 — Vilnius School portraits, Ferdynand Ruszczyc landscapes, and a restored 19th-century noble salon.
The self-declared artists' republic across the Vilnelė runs Lithuania's oldest art incubator: some 30 studios in a restored 16th-century convent, plus exhibition halls and the Užupis Constitution cast on mirrored plaques in 40+ languages.
Baroque at full volume: over 2,000 white stucco figures by Italian masters Pietro Perti and Giovanni Galli cover every vault of this 1676 interior, hung with a glass boat-shaped chandelier. Open daily until about 18:30.
The NDG on the right bank shows 20th- and 21st-century Lithuanian art across roughly 3,000 sq m — interwar modernists, Fluxus material tied to Vilnius-born George Maciunas, and large contemporary exhibitions. Closed Mondays.
The Gedimino Avenue facade carries Stanislovas Kuzma's 1981 bronze 'Feast of the Muses' — three black figures of Drama, Comedy and Tragedy reaching outward. The rebuilt house reopened in 2022 after a long reconstruction.
The former KGB headquarters on Aukų keeps its basement prison intact — padded isolation cells, a water cell and the execution chamber — alongside exhibitions on deportations and the 1944–1953 partisan resistance.
The 1974 modernist house on Vienuolio seats around 1,150 under a cascading crystal chandelier and runs opera and ballet from September to June, including Lithuanian repertoire rarely staged abroad.
Set in a 1913 Jewish theatre on Naugarduko, this branch traces the Litvak world of 'the Jerusalem of the North': Torah arks salvaged from destroyed synagogues, Samuel Bak's paintings, and the history of the Vilna Ghetto.
Vilnius's covered market has traded since 1906 beneath an iron-and-brick hall: smoked eel, dark rye bread, curd cheese, forest mushrooms and pickles, now sharing space with Georgian and Uzbek food counters. Closed Mondays.
A 1930s factory complex in Naujamiestis converted into a music and art venue, ringed by Vilnius's densest cluster of commissioned street-art murals, with gigs, club nights and design markets in the main hall.
The 1902 neo-Baroque hall near the Gates of Dawn is home to the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra; its gilded Grand Hall seats about 700 and anchors the Vilnius Festival each spring. Tickets from around €10.