Plan your visit
The ticket office closes 30 minutes before closing time.
Ticket prices
- Adult – 5,00 €
- Concessions* – 2,50 €
Family ticket
- 1 adult and up to 4 children – 8,00 €
- 1 adult and up to 4 children with admission to educational activities – 9,00 €
- 2 adults and up to 4 children – 12,00 €
- 2 adults and up to 4 children with admission to educational activities – 14,00 €
Combo tickets
- Museums in Vilnius (every branch of National Museum of Lithuania that is located in Vilnius) – 30,00 €
Guided tours in Lithuanian or foreign language (groups up to 20 people)
- Themed guided tour (60 min) – 15,00 € (museum tickets not included)
- Exclusive guided tour (1,5 h) – 20,00 € (museum tickets not included)
Additional experiences
- Guided tour during predetermined dates, per person – 2,00 € (museum ticket not included)
- Guided tour for school students in Lithuanian or foreign language – 3,00 €
- Admission to educational activities for children ages 4 and up, and school students – 3,00 € (museum ticket not included)
- Admission to virtual educational activities for school students – 2,00 €
Expositions are free of charge for the following visitors:
pre-school children; orphans and children who have lost guardianship by their parents; people with a disability and their one accompanying person; persons from 80 years of age; employees of Lithuania’s museums; members of the International Council of Museums (ICOM); residents of children care homes and socially supported children; teachers accompanying groups of schoolchildren; Vilnius Pass card holders (valid for visiting The New Arsenal, The Old Arsenal, The House of Signatories, Gediminas Castle Tower, The Bastion of the Vilnius Defence Wall, Kazys Varnelis House-Museum, House of Histories); students of Lithuanian art schools for children and youth; students of Vilnius College of Technologies and Design; students of Balys Dvarionas decennary music school; members of the Lithuanian Association of Art Historians; members of the International Association of Art Critics; members of the Lithuanian Association of Archaeologists; guides with valid guide ID; guides accompanying groups of tourists; employees of the Cultural Heritage Department at the Ministry of Culture and its territorial branches; cadets and conscripts from General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania; soldiers of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas Headquarters Battalion; members of the Lithuanian army volunteer union; employees of Lithuanian Post; journalists; Family Card holders; students of Vilnius Academy of Arts; students of the Faculty of History at Vilnius University; citizens of Ukraine; organised migrant groups; all visitors on the last Sunday of each month.
Educational activities of the National Museum of Lithuania’s expositional locations are free of charge for the following visitors:
children under 3 years of age; residents of children care homes and socially supported children; people with a disability and their one accompanying person; teachers accompanying groups of schoolchildren.
Concessions are applied upon the visitor providing valid ID that prooves right to specific concessions. This ID requirement does not apply to pre-school children and all visitors on the last Sunday of each month.
Information for disabled visitors: exhibition halls of the House of the Signatories have wheelchair access. Please ring the bell at the door.
General visitor regulations of the National Museum of Lithuania
Guided tours in English are available every day at 12 p.m. throughout the summer of 2024.
Note: The museum is closed on Mondays. Tours will not be held on June 30th, July 28th, and August 25th.
General guided and thematic tours are available in Lithuanian and English. Tours should be booked in advance by phone +370 5 2314437 or email [email protected].
Museum tours can only be conducted by guides from the museum or an institution with which the museum has a contractual agreement.
The museum is open to visitors during the regular opening hours. Please read relevant information regarding COVID-19 before visit: click here (link)
Exhibitions and events
Summer in the House of Signatories: guided tours in English
Event
Various dates: see in the description.
The House of Signatories
Lozoraitis Lithuania: When Personal Becomes Political
Exhibition
2024 05 09 – 2025 12 31
The House of Signatories
About us
The House of Signatories uses traditional and contemporary techniques to present modern Lithuania’s path to statehood – from the mid-19th century to the seminal event of the signing of the February 16th Act of Independence.
What will you discover here?
President Antanas Smetona’s gold pen, a gift he received on his name day; president Aleksandras Stulginskis’s “Zenith” brand watch, which ticked as the Act of Independence was being signed, while Stulginskis served as president, and during the time he spent in deportation in Siberia; you will hear the first audio recordings made in Lithuania – folk songs recorded by Jonas Basanavičius – as well as recordings of the Signatories themselves speaking about 16 February 1918; long-time Lithuanian ambassador to France Petras Klimas’s tuxedo, a memento of his many years of his diplomatic service and attended functions; an original 1900 flag of the Union of Lithuanians in America, by Jonas Šliūpas; a stuffed Eurasian Eagle-Owl that was raised by Jonas Basanavičius.
What will you learn?
The exhibition is organized around three central themes – nation, freedom and statehood. Taking us back to the second half of the 19th century, it presents a narrative spoken by Signatories’ generation, who express their ideas and values, hopes and dreams, and speak about their activities and determination that a Lithuanian state be created.
Through the exhibition the visitor also becomes acquainted with the individuals who signed the 16 February 1918 Act of Independence – their personalities and life histories. This narrative is not so much intended to acquaint visitors with our great-grandparents’ generation as to help us understand these people by asking ourselves questions: how well do we know them, are the ideas and values they promoted relevant today, and what do freedom and statehood mean to us?
The exhibition not only makes broad use of multimedia techniques such as video projections, image and voice recording, interactive information terminals and virtual reality projections, but also contains many authentic, original artefacts and personal objects that belonged to the Signatories. These valuable pieces of memorial heritage have been donated or lent by families of the Signatories.
History of the building
House of Signatories is a true monument to both architecture and history – it is here that the Act of the Restoration of the Independent Lithuanian State was signed on 16 February 1918.
Although this building, like its neighbours on Pilies Street, are thought to date back to the 15th century, it was mentioned for the first time in the mid-17th century, in a royal franchise granted to the Vilnius burgomaster.
From the 17th through the 19th centuries, the building saw a series of different owners. Records attest to it also having been administered by Catholic Church representatives before eventually returning to the hands of lay people, when it came to house a goldsmith’s workshop, a general store and a pub.
In the second half of the 19th century the building was acquired by Karlas and Juzefa Štralis, who, following reconstruction work, opened a pastry shop here in 1895. Known as “The White Štralis” the shop was famous for its cakes and pastries up until the Second World War.
The Štralis family also rented apartments in the building to craftsmen, merchants and teachers. In 1915 they let an apartment on the third floor to the Lithuanian Society for Aiding Victims of War. Most of this society’s members (including future presidents of Lithuania Antanas Smetona and Aleksandras Stulginskis) were involved in efforts to create an independent Lithuanian state. It was therefore in this building that, on 16 February 1918, the Council of Lithuania held a historic meeting and signed the Act of Independence of Lithuania.
In 1992 the building became the House of the Signatories of the Lithuanian Act of Independence, and after less than a decade in became a branch of the National Museum of Lithuania.
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