Visit Lithuania's Maritime Museum, Aquarium, and Dolphinarium
150 years ago in the most northern part of the Curonian Spit, Kopgalis, there was a sea defense fortress.
Today the fortress houses the Lithuania Maritime Museum. There is also a dolphinarium, the only one on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea.
The museum aquarium contains about 40 types of fish found in the rivers and lakes of Lithuania, the Baltic Sea. In the open basins you will see many Baltic seals and penguins. If you walk from the Museum towards the old ferry, you can also visit the ethnographic fisherman’s house and see the old fishing vessels.
Dolphins’ therapy
The Lithuanian Sea Museum began to work with dolphin therapy in 2002. They’re being prepared for children sick with psychological and physical illnesses. This project has had positive results and a huge interest from the public, which is why it will continue. Usually autistic children (pathological introverts) are treated at the dolphinarium. The parents of ill children leave the dolphinarium believing that the joy, which the dolphins give, can slowly heal their kids.
Smiltynės St. 3, phone (8-46) 490754, 490751, fax (8-46) 490750
www.juru.muziejus.lt
Work hours: May – September III – VI 10:30 am – 5:30 pm;
June – August II – VII 10:30 am – 6:30 pm
Tickets: adults – 6 Lt, children – 3 Lt
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