13 Sights in Klaipėda, Lithuania (with Map and Images)

The Lithuanian Maritime Museum is a museum that has been operating since 1979 at the northernmost point of the Curonian Spit, in Kopgalis, Smiltynės str. 3 (Klaipeda). Since 1994, the Dolphinarium has been operating. The museum's collections store 60,062 exhibit units. The largest set is preparations of marine fauna. It has 19,787 units. The collections of the museum also contain exhibits of geology, archaeology, ethnography, numismatics, cartography, ship technique, writing, philatelicity. Live exhibits – 957 animals. The museum covers an area of ~ 33,000 m². In 2008, there were about 100 employees. Over the 20-year period of the museum's existence, 9 million people visited it. Visitors. Until 2008, the museum was visited annually by ~ 500 thousand people. of visitors, later ~ 300 thousand, after the closure of the dolphinarium, their number decreased even more, in 2011 the museum was visited by ~ 100 thousand. Visitors. The museum is subordinate to the Ministry of Culture. In addition to exhibiting the museum's collections in the museum, various educational programs are actively carried out.

Wikipedia: Lietuvos jūrų muziejus (LT), Website

LKL Sūduvis (M52) is a minehunter of the Lithuanian Naval Force. Built in West Germany in 1957 as Koblenz (M1071), a Lindau-class minesweeper for the German Navy, she was upgraded to a Type 331 minehunter in the 1970s. Germany donated Koblenz to the Lithuanian Naval Force in 1999. The ship, renamed Sūduvis, formed the nucleus of the Lithuanian Naval Force's Squadron of Mine-hunters, which was established on 22 June 1999. The squadron was augmented in 2001 with the similar donation of sister ship Marburg, which became Kursis (M51).

Wikipedia: LKL Sūduvis (M52) (EN), Website

Klaipeda Clock Museum – a subdivision of the Lithuanian Art Museum is located in Klaipeda, Liepų str. 12. It was founded on 27 July 1984 in Klaipeda. The history of the building dates back to the end of the XIX century. The building has been repeatedly restored, and its function has also changed more than once. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Land Bank was located here, in the Soviet period – the House of Pioneers.

Wikipedia: Klaipėdos laikrodžių muziejus (LT), Website

Klaipeda Gospel Chapel is a place in Klaipeda, at Herkus Manto str. 84, where evangelical Reformed parish services are held. The chapel was installed and consecrated in 2001 at the Department of Evangelical Theology at Klaipėda University HMF. Now these are the premises of the Evangelical Theological Center of the Institute of Baltic Region History and Archaeology in the complex of former Klaipeda barracks.

Wikipedia: Klaipėdos evangelijos koplyčia (LT)

The Memeler Kleinbahn AG was founded on 15 March 1904 by the Kingdom of Prussia, the Province of East Prussia, the district of Memel and the Nordische Elektrizitäts- und Stahlwerke AG. Over the years, the city of Memel acquired all shares and converted the company into Städtische Werke Memel on 16 July 1940. Memel had 45,000 inhabitants at that time.

Wikipedia: Memeler Kleinbahn (DE)

Klaipėda Sculpture Park is located in central Klaipėda, Lithuania. This park is one of the key artistic landmarks in the town. The L-shaped park occupies 12.2 hectares and has 116 modern sculptures created by 67 Lithuanian artists in 1977–1991. QR codes have been fixed to the sculpture plaques, giving extra info after waving a phone next to them.

Wikipedia: Klaipėda Sculpture Park (EN)

Žardė mound with settlement, or Kuncai, Bandužiai, Castle Hill, Rooster Hill - Mound in Klaipeda City Municipality, south of Žardininkai, near Žardė village. Accessed from Taikos Avenue by turning on Žardupės Street, from it, without the Smeltale, to turn left on the East -way road, is on the left, north side of the road.

Wikipedia: Žardės piliakalnis (LT), Website

Laistai mound with settlement, Liliškiai, Piliališkiai, Swedish embankment, Pilies hill – a mound in the territory of Klaipėda district municipality, near the village of Laistai. It is located 600 m southeast of Žardė Mound. Next to the castle mound there is a Friendship railway station. Nearby flows the Smeltale.

Wikipedia: Laistų piliakalnis (LT), Website

Klaipeda St. St. John's Church – in the XVI-XVII centuries, st. John's Church was located in the Old Town of Klaipėda. Church of st. John's name in the neo-Gothic style. First built in 1258. Destroyed and rebuilt twice, demolished for the third time in 1944, during the war, completely demolished in 1945.

Wikipedia: Klaipėdos Šv. Jono bažnyčia (LT), Website

"Ännchen von Tharau" is a 17-stanza poem by the East Prussian poet Simon Dach. The namesake of the poem is Anna Neander (1615–1689), the daughter of a parson from Tharau, East Prussia. The poem was written on the occasion of her marriage in 1636 and had been set to music as a song by 1642.

Wikipedia: Ännchen von Tharau (EN)

Klaipeda Evangelical Lutheran Church – Evangelical Lutheran Church, planned to be built in the Old Town of Klaipėda, Turgaus str. 24, near Jonas Hill. Until World War II, st. Patrick's Day stood in that place. St. John's Church. It was demolished after World War II.

Wikipedia: Klaipėdos evangelikų liuteronų bažnyčia (LT)

Fanling Evangelical Baptist Church is on Fanling in Kunming Church. 38. This is the oldest church building in Europe to this day, to this day, the baptist church building, which was intact in the fire and was in great pieces.

Wikipedia: Klaipėdos evangelikų baptistų bažnyčia (LT), Website

Arka (transl. Arch) is a monument in Klaipėda, Lithuania. Unveiled on 8 August 2003, it commemorates the 85-year anniversary of the Act of Tilsit and the 80-year anniversary of the Klaipėda Revolt.

Wikipedia: Arka (monument) (EN)