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12 12 AKMENĖ DISTRICT

Every step is a new discovery in Akmenė land both speaking about its natural
history and the legends of the district itself. The land of Akmenė reconciles the
seemingly incompatible things: the verdurous shores of the Venta River and the
landscape of harsh quarries, cosy towns and factory chimneys smoking all 24
hours, dinosaurs and butterflies, and mounds and swamps.

TOP OBJECTS

13. AKMENĖ REGIONAL MUSEUM
The Akmenė Regional Museum can make you feel
like in a kind of jungle where you can admire a swarm
of exotic butterflies. Butterflies of different species are
very homey – all you have to do is stretch out the de-
licious fruit, and they come flying to eat straightaway.
The museum is also home to other butterflies – the
country’s largest collection of diurnal butterflies, co-
llected by Boris Izenbek, one of the most prominent
butterfly collectors in Lithuania, is kept and displayed
here. Some of them, unfortunately, cannot be found
in nature any longer, while a dozen types of exhibits
in the collection are on the verge of extinction and are
now strictly preserved. As a contrast to the homely
butterflies, you can also see the fossils – fossilized
remains of the harsh Jurassic period.
K. Kasakausko St. 17, Akmenė
56.2450244, 22.7527113
+370 425 55 075, +370 620 32 254
akmenesmuziejus.lt

DID YOU KNOW?
The Venta River flowing through
Venta Regional Park is the third
longest river in Lithuania.