Although Kaunas Old Town has the visitor plenty to offer when enjoying a city trip. Interwar architecture, unique museums and parks, statues, and so on. Take a trolleybus, use one of the two funiculars or stroll and discover some hidden gems in Kaunas Guide.

Devil Museum in Kaunas Guide Outside Old Town

The best way to describe the Devil's Museum in Kaunas is "unique". The prominent Lithuanian painter and activist Professor Antanas Zmuidzinavicius (1876 - 1966) initiated this collection of worldwide fame. The story of the beginning of the collection is not a habitual one. In 1906, a man from Samogitia gave the painter a wooden sculpture of a devil as a present.

A bizarre coincidence followed this as the well-known priest and writer Juozas Tumas-Vaizgantas on the 13th of June (Zmuidzinavicius' patron saint's day) brought him a wooden statue named "Trampled Devil" dating back to the 18th century showing Saint Archangel Michael trampling a devil. The statue was so huge that the priest sawed the saint off and brought the devil as a present.

This was the start of the collection and soon devils from around the world arrived at the painter's house. The painter first exhibited the collection in his studio, but in 1961 he donated the collection to the state and the exhibition opened for the public in 1966. In 1983 it moved to its current place in the wing next to the memorial museum.