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LITHUANIA – Palanga, Klaipėda

We named this place the "penguinarium." In the Sea Museum's 31 aquariums one can find the most interesting of 50 freshwater and Baltic Sea fish species, as well as exotic sea dwellers.

Klaipėda. Sea Museum.

The museum has been open to visitors since 28 July 1979. The dolphinarium within the museum was built in 1994. Here there are 1,000 spectator seats, from which one can watch the hour-long acrobatic and artistic performance of dolphins and sea lions. Living in the museum are dolphins, sea lions, seals, fish of various exclusive species, starfish, as well as penguins that have been living and breeding at the museum for 20 years. We named this place the "penguinarium." In the Sea Museum's 31 aquariums one can find the most interesting of 50 freshwater and Baltic Sea fish species, as well as exotic sea dwellers. The museum also offers the largest seashell collection in Europe, which has been gathered since 1975.

The underwater world.

Japanese fish, as if surfaced from some simple and beautiful haiku.

We are learning to tie sailor's knots - it will come in handy in life.
At the museum one can also gain impressions of maritime history. In the cellars there are ship models, nautical equipment, an anchor collection, old maps, documents, and the like.

Not only whales wash ashore, but ships too.

Palanga Amber Museum

The Amber Museum - the former residence of Count Józef Tyszkiewicz. The count, who lived in Poland, gifted this beautiful manor with all its extensive botanical park around it (created by the Frenchman Édouard André) to Palanga. There is truly a great deal of amber here, varying in size, colour, and origin, though its display seems not to have changed since Soviet times and is still maintained in the spirit of the best traditions of that era.