English-Friendly Kids Activities in Vilnius

Lumina is an evening light trail through the Vilnius University Botanical Garden in Kairėnai, with more than 200 light installations. This year's theme is cinema: kids meet Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, James Bond, Star Wars characters and Mr. Bean, and pass scenes from Cinderella and The Jungle Book, with music and sound effects made for the park.

Kids can also play a phone game and win prizes.

Upside Down Once Again (Kitą kartą aukštyn kojom) is a live-music family concert by Keistuolių teatras, played in the company's own theater.

It is performed in Lithuanian, but a concert works without following every word, so it suits kids who simply like music and can sit through a show.

Careful, Magic! is a new show from children's illusionist Alan Gladkov. When the lights go down, the tricks begin: objects appear out of nowhere, with plenty of laughs and surprises along the way.

It plays to kids and adults at once. Some kids will believe every trick, and some parents will try to work out how it's done.

Dansema is Lithuania's only theater company making dance shows exclusively for children, and Unseen World is built around how babies take in the world, detail by detail. Dancers in textured costumes move through a set of pom-pom strands, soft striped rolls and bold black, white and red patterns. Babies are free to watch or crawl in and join the dancers whenever they choose.

Mrs. Majer worries about everything: the weather, accidents, whatever might go wrong. Her husband calmly drinks his tea. Then a tiny bird turns up in their garden, and raising it slowly loosens her grip on her fears.

Lėlė's new show, with puppets and three actors, adapts the picture book by German author Wolf Erlbruch, published in English as Mrs. Meyer the Bird. A gentle story about letting go of fear.

The lighting of the Christmas tree in Cathedral Square is how Vilnius opens its winter season, and the tree has become a symbol of Christmas across Lithuania. Kids get to see the lights come on in the middle of the Old Town.

Missed lighting night? The tree stays up through the holidays, so it still makes an easy stroll with kids on any visit to the Old Town.

Christmas Town is the Christmas market in Cathedral Square, in the heart of Vilnius Old Town. Kids browse the stalls with the city Christmas tree and a carousel on the same square.

It works as a come-and-go outing: drop in after school or after dark, walk the stalls, and head home when the kids get cold. Everything is outdoors, so dress for a Vilnius winter.

Uncle Bubbles (Burbulų Dėdė) runs a stage science show built on experiments with air, water, fire and earth. Kids see smoke bubbles and air cannons, a bubble disco and cola fountains, a burning foam mountain and a flaming hat, then erupting volcanoes and a snow lab.

It suits kids who like loud, messy spectacle more than a story. A child who startles at fire or bangs may not enjoy it.

Vilnius Ice Rink (Vilniaus ledas) is the open-air Christmas skating rink set up in Town Hall Square, in the heart of the Old Town. Kids skate in timed sessions under the open sky.

Best for kids who have skated before, or who are happy holding a grown-up's hand on the ice.

Vilnius's Christmas Run is one of Lithuania's oldest running events, and the 2025 edition was its 50th. Thousands of runners, many in Christmas costumes, follow a route through the Old Town.

The schedule was moved later so runners go after dark, and the youngest kids get an Elves' Run of their own. It suits families after a festive outing that gets everyone moving.

The Ukrainian Classical Ballet brings Tchaikovsky's Christmas ballet to Vilnius for the first time. Marie gets a wooden toy soldier from her uncle Drosselmeyer, and at night he comes alive, fights an army of mice and travels with her to a land of sweets.

One of the world's most performed ballets, it suits kids who can sit through two acts. Reading the story beforehand helps younger ones follow along.

Vilnius Light Festival turns the Old Town into a walk of light installations, digital art and moving light on the buildings. Families follow the installations through streets, squares and courtyards, including undiscovered places in the Old Town.

It suits kids who are happy to walk outdoors in winter. Come for a few installations or make a longer loop.

Kaziukas Fair is Vilnius's big spring fair, held on the streets of the Old Town. Stalls fill with handcrafted goods, local treats and farmers' produce.

It's an easy come-and-go outing: wander, snack, browse and head home when the kids have had enough. It suits families who enjoy markets more than kids who need a set activity to follow.

Every April 1st, Užupis, an artists' neighborhood across the Vilnelė River, marks its independence as a self-declared republic. Border guards, many of them students from Užupis Gymnasium, set up on the bridges and stamp visitors in. Forgot your passport? A smile counts.

Later, a festive procession walks to Angel Square for a family photo of all Užupis residents. It suits kids who enjoy street parades and a bit of silliness.

Street Music Day turns Vilnius into one big stage, with 5,000 performers playing on the city's streets in all genres. Families can walk from one spot to the next and stop wherever a band catches a kid's ear.

It is music, not words, so kids need no Lithuanian to enjoy it. Busy, loud streets suit kids who like a crowd more than those who need quiet.

One night a year, museums across Vilnius open their doors for free. Inside there are exhibits, workshops, stories and educational events, and more of the program happens throughout the city.

It suits school-age kids who like exploring museums and families happy to make an evening of it. Toddlers who fade at bedtime may find it a stretch.

Vilnius turns pink for a festival built around cold beetroot soup, the pink dish that is the season's summer craze. Concerts, parades and games spread through the city, and the pink theme runs everywhere.

Kids can watch the parades, join the games and taste pink dishes and drinks. It suits families happy with a busy, come-and-go street party, less so anyone after a quiet day out.

Vilnius Culture Night packs about a hundred events into one evening across the city: exhibitions, concerts, theater, cinema and performances. Families move between venues and choose what catches a kid's eye.

It suits kids who enjoy a busy evening out and can manage a later night. With younger children, pick one or two stops ahead of time rather than trying to see everything.

The Marsiečiai Children's Run is the kids' race of the Swedbank Vilnius Marathon: a 200 m dash from Cathedral Square in the Old Town, with kids starting in age groups. Each runner wears a bib with a timing chip, and results go up on the race website.

It suits kids who want to race on marathon day. The youngest can have a parent run beside them.

The Vilnius Book Fair is the city's yearly book fair, held indoors at LITEXPO, the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre. Families walk the exhibitors' stands and browse.

It is a come-and-go visit, so you can stay for an hour or a whole afternoon. It suits kids who already enjoy browsing a bookshop more than toddlers who need to run.

Two private play rooms for children's parties share one address in a small shopping center. Ledinuko Pasaka has a three-level play frame with an 8-meter double slide, a trampoline with a light game and a big ball pit, plus a toddler corner. Ledinukas, refitted in September 2026, has a 9-meter tire slide, musical piano steps and a carousel. Both rooms have a kitchenette and a toilet with a changing table.

Lazertronas is a laser tag arena: teams play in a darkened hall with soft inflatable obstacles, smoke and light effects. An instructor explains the gear and rules before rounds of about 10 to 15 minutes. Groups book the whole arena, mostly for birthdays and class outings, and can use a lounge room during their slot and for 30 minutes after, at no extra cost.

The event studio of cookbook author Beata Nicholson's Beatos virtuvė: a 130 m² kitchen with sofas for the grown-ups, booked privately for birthdays and christenings. Kids bake their own pizzas with a baker from Jurgis ir Drakonas, decorate fairy cupcakes or play ice cream shop, and older kids can take on a two-course chef challenge. A few times a year it also runs four- and five-day kids' cooking camps.

PEW PEW VR is a free-roam virtual reality arena. Players wear headsets and move through a 120 m² space in teams of up to three, hiding behind virtual cover across six game rooms.

The fantasy version drops kids into pirate, medieval and cyberpunk worlds, a co-op mode with some horror elements pits the team against attackers and a boss, and the military version is a realistic shooter with weapon recoil.

Šeškinės ozas is a 1,160-meter ridge, 3 to 18 meters high, left by glacier meltwater some 16,000 to 18,000 years ago. Now a protected natural monument, it has walking trails and information boards along its winding crest, and a small pond, Lake Šeškiukas, below it. Kids can climb the high points for views over the city and look for squirrels and hedgehogs in the nearby woods.

Ribiškės is a range of hills in Pavilniai Regional Park, shaped by a retreating glacier into gullies, small streams and a mix of shady spruce forest, open meadows and wide viewpoints.

Walking routes of 3 or 6 km climb and drop through it, past a few preserved rural huts and the Kaukysa rivulet. In winter the slopes are open to anyone on skis.

Pramogų Arena is a covered ice rink that runs public skating sessions through the day, alongside ice hockey academies, figure skating classes and curling. Kids skate laps on open ice, rental skates come from the staff at the rink, and anyone unsure on skates can ask staff for pointers. The Ledo Kavinė café sits on site for a warm drink afterward.

A white granite pillar topped with a crown of stars marks the spot French geographers fixed as the center of Europe in 1989. Sculptor Gediminas Jokūbonis built the pillar in 2004, beside the marker stone unveiled in 1997.

The area around it has been a protected reserve since 1992, taking in Lake Girija, the Bernotai Mound, a hillside and the neighboring forest.

Gilužis Beach sits on Gelūžė, a lake on the city's western edge and the deepest and cleanest one in the area. The shore is open and windier than most city beaches, so it draws sailors and water-sports fans, and a sailing club runs lessons for kids.

On land there's a playground, outdoor fitness equipment, an ice cream kiosk, and a barbecue area with grills, tables and benches.

Zoopark is the city's only indoor zoo, home to nearly 90 species from around the world, inside the Ogmios miestas complex. Kids can watch ring-tailed lemurs, meerkats, marmosets, tamarins, flying squirrels, tortoises, geckos and pythons up close.

Visitors can feed the rabbits, guinea pigs, koi and parrots, and keepers feed the meerkats, lemurs and monkeys several times a day.

A small family farmstead where kids meet goats and baby goats, miniature sheep, rabbits, roosters and chicks, four Chinese turtles, guinea pigs, budgies, Sphynx cats and a hairless dog. On the guided program kids hear facts about each animal, then stroke, feed and hold them.

Afterward there's a trampoline, a playground and room for a picnic. Adults can book the sauna, grill house and fishing pond.

The Old Town's main square opens in front of the neo-classical cathedral, with a 57-meter bell tower standing apart from it and the Gediminas monument nearby.

Kids can hunt for the stebuklas (miracle) stone: local legend says step on it, turn around three times, and a wish comes true. Red granite in the paving traces the old Lower Castle fortifications. Winter brings the city's tallest Christmas tree.

Užupis is the smallest district of Vilnius, a hilly artists' quarter across the Vilnelė River from the Old Town that declared itself an independent republic, half as a joke, in 1997.

Kids can find the trumpet-blowing Angel of Užupis in the main square, ride the Swing of Destiny under the Užupis Bridge, look for the Užupis Mermaid by the river, and wander the Užupis Art Incubator's changing open-air sculptures.

Vilnius TV Tower is the tallest structure in Lithuania, at 326.4 meters. The observation deck sits 170 meters up on the 67th floor, with a bistro looking out over the city and an open terrace in the warm season.

At its foot, granite markers and the bronze "Sacrifice" sculpture remember the 14 people killed defending the tower on January 13, 1991, and a small park shows historic broadcast antennas.

A small cross-country ski area on an open field between Perkūnkiemio and Leičių streets, laid out as three linked routes: the 200 m Leičių Path through the middle, the 500 m REWO Loop around the edge, and the 1,000 m Perkūnas Trail joining them into one circuit.

Kids trying skis for the first time can stay on the short path while older ones lap the full kilometer.

Liepkalnis is the city's largest winter sports center: 10 slopes (2.6 km in all) from one green beginner run up to a black, and 10 lifts. Small children learn on a beginner slope with a magic carpet lift, and the ski school starts skiers at 3 to 4 and snowboarders at 6.

Snow cannons open the slopes once it freezes, and the snow park has 20 to 30 features.

A treetop rope park on the bank of the Neris, with six courses of rising difficulty and more than 60 obstacles. Younger kids get their own routes with nets, a playground and a trampoline.

Taller climbers can ride the 401 m zip line across the river or take the Elephant Flight, a 16 m free-fall jump. Every climber follows a safety briefing first.

A playground and climbing area in the Business Garden office park, on the edge of the Lazdynai forest. The centerpiece is a giant green praying mantis climbing frame. Beside it, BONOBO runs a paid outdoor climbing wall on the parking building, with a 10 m beginner wall and routes up to 22 m.

Between the office buildings, a garden of almost 40,000 plants has paths and leisure spots.

Amatų skveras is a public square on Naugarduko street, next to the Vinted headquarters, laid out as a playground and a place to spend free time. It is one of the city's newer playgrounds.

The play area is built for kids of different ages, so younger and older siblings can play at the same time.

A riverside sports ground beside the White Bridge, the pedestrian bridge over the Neris. It holds a skatepark for skateboards and inline skates, three double-sided basketball courts, nine beach volleyball courts, outdoor workout equipment and children's playgrounds, spread across 8.36 hectares.

Older kids can ride or shoot hoops while younger siblings play nearby. The open field next door hosts concerts and festivals.

A 0.6-hectare green square built around a small, partly planted sand dune, a nod to the dune landscape of Lithuania Minor. Kids use the dune as one oversized sandbox.

Around it are a small rubber-surfaced play area, a picnic spot with tables and benches, and courts for basketball, tennis and volleyball plus a mini football pitch. A path loops the lawn, planted with young birches and pines.

A public square built around a gentle artificial stream, laid out on ground where a river flowed during the last ice age. A children's playground shares the square, so kids can move between the play equipment and the water.

A playground built by the city next to Vilnius Airport's official planespotting site, on the south side of the runway. Kids climb the rope pyramid and ride the slides while passenger and cargo jets take off and land just beyond the fence.

The viewing site next door has a sunken part and a raised deck made for photographers, plus a shelter and benches.

Salotė Beach sits on the shore of Lake Salotė, close to the Pilaitė housing estates, and is looked after by Grinda, the city's maintenance company. Kids get a playground and a trampoline by the sand, plus two beach volleyball courts.

Four cafes and an outdoor coffee machine cover snacks, and there are changing cabins, toilets and a paid sauna. Grinda tests the water and sand and organizes lifeguards.

This is the first of two city-run beaches on Balžis, a small glacial lake ringed by pine forest. Wooden piers reach out over the water for swimming and sunbathing, and an adapted pier and ramp give step-free entry into the lake.

Behind the shore sit a grill area with tables and benches, changing cabins, public toilets and bike racks. The lake reaches 27 m at its deepest point.

A sandy beach on the Neris river, looked after by Grinda, the city maintenance company, which runs its lifeguard base here. Kids get a playground, basketball and beach volleyball courts, a boxing bag and new outdoor gym equipment. There are showers, a drinking water station, a grill area with tables and benches, and a stop for the river passenger boats.

A sandy Blue Flag beach on the left bank of the Neris, surrounded by trees and set away from the bigger crowds at Beach I next door. Kids get a playground and sand, and families can use the barbecue area with grills, tables and benches. There is also an outdoor gym, changing cabins, a drinking fountain and a free self-cleaning toilet, and a rebuilt footpath links it to Beach I.

The largest and longest city-run beach, a Blue Flag stretch of sand on a bend of the Neris river, backed by Valakampiai forest. The beach has a big sports area with six volleyball courts, beach football and basketball courts, a playground, and a barbecue area with grills and picnic tables.

A renovated footpath links it to Valakampiai Beach II.

Balsis is one of the city's best-equipped beaches and holds a Blue Flag. Three piers run out into the lake, and younger kids get their own swimming area next to a playground.

Older kids can use two beach volleyball courts, a basketball court and outdoor gym equipment, or rent a pedal boat or paddleboard. Walking trails circle the lake, with a panoramic lookout nearby.

Lithuania's largest botanical garden has its main 191-hectare site on a former manor estate in Kairėnai, with forest, meadows, streams and ponds. Kids can walk the Japanese Garden, see some 600 lilac bushes on Lilac Hill, and climb through the award-winning Green Building to its observation terrace, past a display of spiny plants. In snowy winters, marked tracks open for cross-country skiing and sledging.

A Japanese stroll garden around Šnipiškės pond, laid out to a concept by Japanese landscape architect Shiro Nakane. Paths loop past a red arched bridge over a koi pond, a moon bridge, a pontoon bridge, cascades, a raked-gravel dry garden and a sakura alley. Swans live on the water.

Kids get a playground and outdoor musical instruments, and there are drinking fountains, a gazebo and a public toilet.

An 18-hectare park built around Jeruzalė Pond, with woodland along its edges. A boardwalk runs over the water near the shore, so kids can walk out to spots that are normally out of reach.

Around the pond are a fountain, two wooden terraces, three playgrounds, footpaths and 59 benches, so a slow loop with stops works well with small kids.

A chain of small ponds in the old Neris riverbed, strung along Linkmenų Street. Wooden terraces and pontoon walkways sit right on the water, where swans and other birds gather by the feeders.

There's a children's playground, a sports area with outdoor gym equipment and a pétanque court. Bike and foot paths run separately, and the gentle slopes make it easy going with a stroller.

Lukiškės Square is the city's largest square: about 3.5 hectares of lawns and paths with 58 benches, on the edge of Gediminas Avenue. It has a kids' playground, drinking fountains, a café, public toilets and a summer reading room.

Renovated and reopened in 2017, it is also where Lithuania holds state holidays and commemorations, so some days bring ceremonies and crowds.

A former Reformed Church cemetery turned public garden, reopened in 2021 after a rebuild. Red clinker paving across the central lawn marks where the demolished chapels and church once stood.

Kids head for the playground on the west side, then follow the small water channels that run between the flower beds. Maples, lindens and oaks keep much of it shaded, and a vine-covered pavilion has benches.

Tauras Hill Park covers 8.4 hectares of slopes, paths and lawns on a hill in the city center. Kids get two playgrounds and a sports ground, and there are drinking water stations, plenty of benches and a public toilet.

The park also holds the Vytautas Kernagis open-air stage, named for the Vilnius singer-songwriter.

A 29-hectare pine and birch wood on the edge of Karoliniškės and Lazdynai, near the TV tower. Paved, lit paths pass wooden sculptures of witches, mythical creatures and fairytale scenes set up in 1987, plus a playground and a gazebo.

After dark, 10 Vilnius legends glow on the paths and treetops, among them the Iron Wolf, the Basilisk and Saint Casimir. Squirrels and woodpeckers are common in the woods.

Sapieha Park is one of the oldest Baroque parks in Lithuania, laid out in the late 1600s beside the Sapieha Palace. A wide, straight alley runs from Antakalnio Street to the palace at the east end, framed by geometric paths and old trees.

Across its 4 hectares there is a children's playground, about 30 benches, cafes, a small outdoor library and bird feeders.

Verkiai Regional Park is about 2,700 hectares, mostly forest, along the right bank of the Neris. Inside are the six Green Lakes, the Classicist Verkiai Manor, and the Vilnius Calvary: a 7 km Way of the Cross with 35 stations, including stone chapels, wooden gates and a bridge over the Baltupis creek. Its 2 km section, Mažosios Kalvarijos, makes a shorter walk.

Pūčkoriai Exposure is the tallest exposed cliff in Lithuania: 65 meters high and 260 meters wide, above the Vilnia River in Pavilniai Regional Park. A trail with wide stairs, wooden walkways and terraces passes both the top and the bottom, so kids can look up at the cliff and down from it.

Old Polish military trenches and a concrete bunker still sit at the site.

A protected stretch of the Vilnia River valley, shaped by the last glaciers. A history trail follows the river from the Pūčkoriai Dam, near the Pūčkoriai Exposure, the highest outcrop in Lithuania, with a sundial on the bank beside it.

The Belmontas waterfalls run by an old water mill site. Kids can look for the ponds of a 16th-century cannon foundry and 20th-century bunkers, or walk the Ribiškių Labyrinth.

Three white concrete crosses, 12 meters tall, stand on top of the hill in Kalnai Park. A small observation deck at their base looks out over the Old Town, and broken pieces of the earlier monument, pulled down by the Soviet authorities in 1950, lie a few meters below.

Kalnai Park around it has wooded hills, paths and benches, and the Bernardine Garden sits at the foot.

Bernardine Garden fills a loop of the Vilnia river at the edge of the Old Town, across from the slopes of Kalnai Park. Kids get two playgrounds, a carousel, a pond and a musical fountain, plus a giant chessboard and a petanque court. There are cafes and a summer library and reading room. The oldest oak in Vilnius stands in the corner by the footbridge to the Art Academy.

Vingis Park covers 157 hectares of century-old pine forest inside a loop of the Neris River, with about 16 km of walking and cycling paths. Kids get two playgrounds, outdoor music instruments and a disc golf course, plus basketball, volleyball and badminton courts.

A rental stand rents out bikes, roller skates and scooters in spring and summer, and cross-country skis in winter. The Song Festival stage hosts big open-air concerts.

An open play area on the ground floor of the Akropolis mall, right beside the shops. Low dinosaur-shaped climbing and balancing pieces, a slide and play boards with mazes sit on a soft rubber floor.

It suits toddlers and preschoolers who need a run-around break during a shopping trip. School-age kids will find it small.

Forum Sports Club is a members' club at Forum Palace whose pool hall has a 25 m three-lane pool with cascades and a separate kids' pool. Single-visit passes open it to non-members too.

Around the pool are saunas, Turkish and infrared baths and Jacuzzis, and the club also runs a supervised kids' club, a table tennis area and an outdoor basketball terrace.

Lazdynai is the largest pool complex in the city, built as a water sports base for the public and for athletes. It has a 10-lane, 50 m Olympic pool and an 8-lane, 25 m diving pool with towers up to 10 m.

A quarter of the big pool's floor can be raised for children's sessions, and a viewing stand looks over the water for watching lessons and swim meets.

A Polynesian-themed aqua park spread over several floors. There are nine slides, from family boat rides on the Ohana river to the 60 km/h Moreja volcano, plus the Dolphins' sea wave pool with waves up to 1.5 m and the 137 m Canoe river for floating on rings.

Smaller children get the Game island, eight platforms of tunnels and slides where they control the water jets, watched by lifeguards.

Molinė Virtuvė is a ceramics studio where parents and kids sit at shared tables and model clay together, with the team helping at every step. Kids shape bowls, cups or anything they like, then decorate them with colored underglaze paints or a marbling technique.

No experience is needed. The studio dries, fires and glazes every piece and packs it safely for you to take home.

Megazone is a laser tag arena with a two-level maze of about 700 square meters, sound and light effects, and room for up to 32 players. Players wear vests with sensors and use laser guns that leave no bruises, unlike paintball. Each booking is private to the group, so it suits a class birthday or a family outing. Games run in 10-minute rounds after a short safety briefing.

An indoor electric go-kart center with two tracks. The main track is 500 m long with plenty of turns and impact barriers; kids 8 and up drive their own karts there, and younger kids can ride as a passenger in a two-seater with an adult.

Ages 2 to 5 get a separate Baby Track in slow Nano karts, with room for a parent to sit behind.

ACTION! by Apollo is a games center inside the Ozas shopping mall, with bowling lanes, a space-themed laser tag maze, a Hologate virtual reality arena and a BLITZ VR simulator. Billiards, darts, table curling and karaoke round it out.

School-age kids and teens get the most from bowling and laser tag. There is little here for toddlers.

An ice rink on the ground floor of the Akropolis mall, open all year for public skating in timed sessions. Cafes ring the rink, so parents can sit and watch, and the ice also hosts figure skating shows and hockey games.

New skaters can skate with a penguin aid to hold on to, and protective pads are lent free. Kids can join figure skating and hockey training.

An indoor climbing gym with a bouldering area over thick crash mats and high walls climbed on a rope with full safety gear. Staff show first-timers around and explain how the routes are marked, and shoes and harnesses can be rented.

Kids' classes mix climbing games with technique, some taught in English, and themed birthday parties come with a host. A café area lets parents sit and watch.

Montis Magia Pikas is a full-service climbing gym run by the Montis Magia climbing club, with about 1,187 square meters of wall. Tall rope walls take up most of the hall, and a separate bouldering area has lower walls climbed without a rope.

Training boards cover stronger climbers. The club also runs a climbing school whose instructors teach rope technique and mountain skills.

BONOBO is a climbing gym with more than 100 bouldering problems and a 10-meter lead wall fitted with four auto-belays. A team of route setters changes the problems every week, so repeat visits stay fresh.

There's also an adjustable Kilter Board, a separate training area, and a bar with coffee, drinks and snacks where parents can sit while kids climb.

Kikilio lizdas (Finch's Nest) is a family cafe with a children's play room, inside the BIG Vilnius shopping center. Kids play while parents sit down at the cafe, which makes it a break during a mall trip as much as a destination of its own.

ARTI is a small, privately run play room built for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Kids jump in a ball pit, climb a wooden play ship, take the slides, push ride-on cars and bake sand cakes in an indoor sandbox.

There is also a sensory wall, a toy kitchen, race tracks, a workbench corner and a drawing area. Parents sit in a snack area behind a glass wall and watch.

A play room on the fifth floor of the CUP mall, built around a ball pit, a spiral slide, a trampoline, swings and a climbing spider tower, with toys and books for quieter play. Parents can stay and play, or leave kids with staff.

Two party rooms (for 25 and 50 guests, or up to 80 combined) host birthdays and christenings, with food, entertainers and balloons booked through the room.

MaryMaris is an indoor play park in the Akropolis mall, built around a multi-level air maze with tube slides, nets and obstacles. Around it sit a trampoline complex, a ball pit, a Volcano to climb and slide down, a free fall tower, a ninja obstacle course and sports machines.

A family restaurant and party cabins for birthdays are on site.

Adventica is a family play park on the 1B floor of the Ozas shopping center. It holds the largest single inflatable trampoline in the Baltics, plus a 100-meter Ninja Warrior obstacle course, a ropes course and a three-story play frame with trampolines.

There is also an 80-meter electric go-kart track, a games zone with interactive walls and building sets, and a separate area for under-3s beside the parents' seating.

SkyPark fills the third floor of the Vilnius Outlet mall with a trampoline zone, trampoline dodgeball, and regular and interactive basketball hoops. Younger kids head for an 11-meter, five-level climbing playground with slides, an obstacle course and soft-ball cannons.

Between jumps there are bumper cars, mini bowling, table football, table tennis and touch-screen games. Craft Pizza, a pizzeria on site, serves thick-crust American pizza.

A 2,500 m² indoor play park in the Ogmios miestas shopping village, with two trampoline zones for bigger kids and separate trampolines for under-10s. There is a three-level climbing frame with slides and tunnels, a spinning vortex tunnel, a 140 m² knitted play net, a trampoline game played against a screen, interactive bikes and a foosball table for 22. A pizzeria is on site.

360 Arena is a 7,900 m² indoor hall of trampolines and interactive sports games. Older kids get acrobatic trampolines, an airbag, a ninja course, a volcano, an air track for gymnastics and light-up challenge games such as ValoJump and iWall.

Younger kids have separate junior and toddler zones, including four smaller trampolines inside the play structure. Eleven themed party rooms and the 360 Food restaurant are on site.

Lithuania's national library fills a 1963 building on Gediminas Avenue, the first in the Baltics designed and built as a library, which reopened after a reconstruction that ended in 2016.

Beyond the reading rooms and the skylit atrium lined with books, it has a children's activity center called Žaisloteka (Toytheque), a makerspace called PATS SAU, a media makerspace, a cinema room and a music room.

The National Gallery of Art shows Lithuanian painting, sculpture, prints, photography, installations and video from the 20th and 21st centuries, drawn from a collection of more than 46,000 works. A permanent display of the collection runs alongside changing exhibitions.

The education center runs guided tours, hands-on workshops and summer camps for children and families. The building is set up for wheelchairs and strollers.

An interactive exhibition run by Lithuania's State Service for Protected Areas, built as a way into the country's national and regional parks and reserves. The main hall is styled as a meadow, with grasses, birds and grasshoppers all around and clouds overhead.

Kids can listen to bird calls, handle real specimens, try the quiz table and touch screens, and watch nature films in a bat-themed cinema room.

The State Knowledge Centre fills three floors of the Presidential Palace complex with interactive exhibits on how Lithuania works: its territory, its people and the institutions that run it. Visitors pick their own topics at interactive stands and follow more than 700 scannable codes.

A family activity booklet, "Pažink Lietuvą", gives preschoolers tasks: voting on shared rules, checking the President's schedule and making their own state decoration.

Vilnius Auto Museum fills a former taxi depot with over 100 historic cars and motorcycles from 10 countries. Exhibits run from the first cars of the late 1800s through interwar Lithuania and World War II vehicles to race cars and cars that carried Lithuanian presidents.

Younger kids can try a Ford Model T and hunt for secret doors in cars, and a children's area has toy cars, coloring and books.

MO Museum holds more than 6,000 works of Lithuanian modern and contemporary art from the 1950s to today: painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation. The Studio Libeskind building stands on the site of the old Lietuva Cinema, with a sculpture garden and terrace beside it that are always open.

Family Sundays bring theater games and shows for babies and toddlers, plus workshops for older kids inside the main exhibition.

House of Histories is the newest branch of the National Museum of Lithuania, opened in 2021 in an 18th-century building. A large exhibition fills the ground floor and a smaller one sits upstairs, and each comes with workshops, both live and online.

The current major show traces Lithuanian high tech, from lasers and biotechnology to space technology and robotics.

The Old Arsenal holds the National Museum of Lithuania's archaeology collection, a 12,000-year walk from the first people after the ice melted to the Baltic tribes of the Iron Age.

The ground floor has Stone Age tools and weapons and replicas of seven key finds. Upstairs covers the 1st to 13th centuries: farming, metalwork, weapons and ceramics.

The last tower of Vilnius's medieval Upper Castle, on top of Gediminas Hill. Inside, narrow steps climb past castle models, armor, Baltic jewelry and an interactive timeline where kids can picture a Crusader attack. The observation deck looks out over the red roofs and church towers of the Old Town.

Legend says Grand Duke Gediminas dreamed of an iron wolf howling on this hill and founded the city here.

The national railway museum fills part of the second floor of Vilnius station, with almost 900 exhibits on how Lithuania's trains run: passenger travel, track maintenance and signaling.

Outside, the Rail Park (Bėgių parkas) spreads 12 exhibits over 7,100 square meters: locomotives, wagons, a water steam pump and a wagon heating boiler. It suits train-mad kids who want to see the real thing up close.

The residence of Lithuania's grand dukes, gone from the mid-1600s and rebuilt this century, is now a national museum. Four routes run through it: surviving castle walls and archaeological finds, furnished Renaissance and Baroque state rooms, weapons and palace kitchen displays, and temporary exhibitions.

The state rooms route climbs an observation tower with views over the city. Outside are a Renaissance garden and bas-reliefs.

The Museum of Illusions fills 600 m² of a historic building on Vokiečių Street with hands-on exhibits that mix optics, physics and art: optical illusions, installations, gravity and light experiments, and historical illusions.

Exhibits are interactive, photos are allowed everywhere, and guides on the floor explain how each trick works. Curious school-age kids who like asking why get the most out of it.

The first museum in Lithuania devoted to LEGO, built from a private collection of more than 2,000 modern sets. Themed zones cover LEGO City, a medieval village, pirates and Vikings, the Wild West, Minecraft, dinosaurs and space, plus a giant minifigure wall.

Exhibits are look-only, but the construction wall lets kids build and add to a shared piece. Trains and lights run on a short program every hour.

Žaislų muziejus tells the story of Lithuanian toys, and kids are invited to pick up and try many of the exhibits. Four permanent exhibitions run from medieval toys rebuilt from archaeological finds, through a hands-on Stone Age room of stone, wood and sand, to toys from a century ago and 20th-century toys and arcade machines.

Most of the 5,000-plus items in the collection were donated by visitors.

The museum fills the city's first public power plant. Downstairs are its original steam boilers, turbines and control panel. The 1,000 m² Transformation Hall puts the two largest Tesla coils in the Baltics inside a Faraday cage, and challenges at each exhibit earn points to swap for souvenirs.

The two top floors hold an interactive science zone with a Jacob's ladder, a Möbius strip and a Bernoulli ball.