Rain again? A wet day doesn't have to mean a day on the sofa. These are the indoor spots we'd head to when the weather turns, from play rooms and pools to escape rooms, art studios and museums. Some suit toddlers, some suit kids who need to burn off serious energy, and a few get parents playing too.
Labyrinthus runs actor-led group games in a 700 m² dark maze and a two-floor house called Joker House. The kids' games are milder: in Ghost Hunters, teams search for a ritual candle, solve puzzles, crawl through hidden tunnels and meet the ghost, while Maze Adventure has kids crack coded chests and dodge bell traps in dim light with a guide. Teen and adult games lean into horror.
Giliuko laboratorija is a hands-on science lab from the education company Edugilė, stocked with test tubes, flasks and materials for kids to run their own experiments. Families book it for science birthday parties, where kids work with dry ice, test polymers and build robots, then have cake and games in their own party space.
The same team runs STEAM clubs for primary-school kids and one-off workshops.
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.
Logic Games runs two separate escape rooms. Geimerio lobis is a puzzle room built for kids and families: a team searches the room, solves riddles and opens locks to reach a treasure chest holding small sweets. The room is never locked, stays well lit and has no jump scares.
Zodiakas is a locked room for teens and adults, built around the Zodiac killer story.
Džiaugsmo ratas is a small art studio founded in 2009 by artist and art therapist Elytė Krasauskaitė. Kids paint, draw and try mixed media in groups of up to 10, and ceramics classes teach hand-building with clay, with pieces fired and glazed to take home. Teens can take a more serious academic drawing course. All materials are supplied, and the studio also runs creative birthday parties.
A LEGO creativity center where kids learn science, engineering and coding by building. Each weekly class opens with a short talk about the day's model, then kids build it in pairs from Bricks4Kidz's own designs (not sold in toy stores) and finish with free play.
The youngest come with a parent and build with DUPLO. The center also runs holiday camps and themed LEGO birthday parties.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Castellan's House is the newest branch of the National Museum of Lithuania, and it tells the country's story through ideas and people rather than cases of artifacts. Six rooms each take one theme: creativity, beliefs, struggles, fractures, global links and faces.
The building looks like an old Gothic or Renaissance townhouse, set back from the street with a quiet courtyard. It suits school-age kids with some curiosity about history.
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.
The main branch of the city's public library network. Besides the book stacks, it has a Creativity Space with a 3D printer, smart LEGO kits, Micro:bit boards and eight computers, where staff help kids and adults try coding and 3D modeling.
The Music and Art Reading Room lends CDs, vinyl and films, and has a piano that visitors can play.
The children's library of the Adomas Mickevičius Public Library fills part of the restored Tiškevičiai palace. Toddlers get a corner with child-height furniture, soft toys and a grass-green carpet (shoes off). Primary-school kids have an orchard-themed nook with board games and coloring, and older readers follow a book labyrinth to a big window showing Leonardas Gutauskas's "Fairy Tale Tree".
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.
Lithuania's national opera and ballet company performs here on the Main Stage, with the smaller Red Foyer used for chamber events.
Alongside the evening repertoire runs a children's program: ballets for kids such as "Enchanted Eyes", a Mozart-scored story about friendship and a professor who builds robots, and "Music for Tiny Ears", a classical concert for babies in a room set up for them. Backstage tours run too.
Menų spaustuvė (Arts Printing House) is a contemporary performing arts center in a historic printing house building, open since 2002. Its stages host theater, dance, circus and music for babies, kids and teens, much of it through the KITOKS international festival and its year-round KITOKS presents series. Workshops run for every age group, alongside a contemporary circus school.
Keistuoliai started in 1989, when three music conservatory students and their lecturer set up the first independent theater of its kind in Lithuania. It still plays in the Press House (Spaudos rūmai), a Soviet-era tower.
Weekend daytime shows are made for children, such as a play about the world of childhood built around kids' own sayings. Evening plays and concerts are for teens and adults.
This puppet theater has staged shows since 1958 and plays in the Oginskiai Palace on Arklių Street. The children's repertoire mixes puppet, shadow and object theater, from Pinocchio, Cinderella and The Snow Queen to new Lithuanian plays.
In the cellar, the Living Puppet Museum shows puppets, masks and set pieces made in the theater's own workshops in the same building, with tours led by professional puppeteers.
The museum fills the building where the Soviet NKVD and KGB worked from 1940 to 1991, opposite Lukiškės Square. Upstairs, rooms of documents, photos, maps and personal belongings cover deportations to the gulags and the partisan war in the forests.
The basement holds the preserved prison: the cells, a padded isolation cell and the former execution room. The subject is heavy, so it suits teens more than younger kids.
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.
The museum fills the Small Radziwiłł Palace, a 17th-century building in the Old Town whose wing held the Vilnius City Theatre from 1796. The collection covers Lithuanian stage, music and film: costumes, set designs and models, posters, musical instruments, and film cameras made between the 1930s and 1970s. Exhibitions rotate. Workshops for kids cover animation, sound effects for film and set design.
A small museum in a baroque Old Town house, devoted to 50-million-year-old Baltic amber. Kids can hunt for insects trapped in the resin (a mosquito, a grasshopper leg), find amber in white, green and even blue, and see a 3-kilogram piece.
Stairs lead down to a cellar with 15th-century kilns and a patch of street paved 500 years ago. Upstairs is an amber jewelry gallery and shop.
The Treasury of Vilnius Cathedral fills the Church of St. Michael the Archangel and the former Bernardine Convent beside it. Golden chalices and monstrances from the 14th century, set with pearls and gemstones, sit next to richly patterned church textiles.
The whole treasury was hidden before World War II and stayed missing until 1985. Best for school-age kids with patience for display cases.
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.
Danger Park is a safety center where kids learn how to react to emergencies by acting them out. Six themed zones cover a smoky home, street traffic on bikes and scooters, a forest, an airport and plane cabin, natural disasters such as earthquakes, and getting lost in a crowd. An educator leads each group through more than 100 situations, and kids leave with a certificate.
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.
The bastion is a 16th-century piece of the old city wall: a tower, a horseshoe-shaped artillery platform, and a tunnel joining them. Inside, the exhibition shows how the city defended itself, from early grenades and mortars to 17th- and 18th-century cannons. Kids can spot the winged hussars and hear the legend of the Basilisk, said to have lived in a cave in the bastion hill.
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 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 Bank of Lithuania's Money Museum tells the story of money across five halls, about 300 square meters in all. It starts with the oldest forms of exchange, such as grain, fur and amber (long traded in this region), and ends with digital currency.
The exhibits are interactive, and audio guides come in several languages, so kids who don't read Lithuanian can still follow along.
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.
Rain again? A wet day doesn't have to mean a day on the sofa. These are the indoor spots we'd head to when the weather turns, from play rooms and pools to escape rooms, art studios and museums. Some suit toddlers, some suit kids who need to burn off serious energy, and a few get parents playing too.
Labyrinthus runs actor-led group games in a 700 m² dark maze and a two-floor house called Joker House. The kids' games are milder: in Ghost Hunters, teams search for a ritual candle, solve puzzles, crawl through hidden tunnels and meet the ghost, while Maze Adventure has kids crack coded chests and dodge bell traps in dim light with a guide. Teen and adult games lean into horror.
Giliuko laboratorija is a hands-on science lab from the education company Edugilė, stocked with test tubes, flasks and materials for kids to run their own experiments. Families book it for science birthday parties, where kids work with dry ice, test polymers and build robots, then have cake and games in their own party space.
The same team runs STEAM clubs for primary-school kids and one-off workshops.
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.
Logic Games runs two separate escape rooms. Geimerio lobis is a puzzle room built for kids and families: a team searches the room, solves riddles and opens locks to reach a treasure chest holding small sweets. The room is never locked, stays well lit and has no jump scares.
Zodiakas is a locked room for teens and adults, built around the Zodiac killer story.
Džiaugsmo ratas is a small art studio founded in 2009 by artist and art therapist Elytė Krasauskaitė. Kids paint, draw and try mixed media in groups of up to 10, and ceramics classes teach hand-building with clay, with pieces fired and glazed to take home. Teens can take a more serious academic drawing course. All materials are supplied, and the studio also runs creative birthday parties.
A LEGO creativity center where kids learn science, engineering and coding by building. Each weekly class opens with a short talk about the day's model, then kids build it in pairs from Bricks4Kidz's own designs (not sold in toy stores) and finish with free play.
The youngest come with a parent and build with DUPLO. The center also runs holiday camps and themed LEGO birthday parties.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Castellan's House is the newest branch of the National Museum of Lithuania, and it tells the country's story through ideas and people rather than cases of artifacts. Six rooms each take one theme: creativity, beliefs, struggles, fractures, global links and faces.
The building looks like an old Gothic or Renaissance townhouse, set back from the street with a quiet courtyard. It suits school-age kids with some curiosity about history.
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.
The main branch of the city's public library network. Besides the book stacks, it has a Creativity Space with a 3D printer, smart LEGO kits, Micro:bit boards and eight computers, where staff help kids and adults try coding and 3D modeling.
The Music and Art Reading Room lends CDs, vinyl and films, and has a piano that visitors can play.
The children's library of the Adomas Mickevičius Public Library fills part of the restored Tiškevičiai palace. Toddlers get a corner with child-height furniture, soft toys and a grass-green carpet (shoes off). Primary-school kids have an orchard-themed nook with board games and coloring, and older readers follow a book labyrinth to a big window showing Leonardas Gutauskas's "Fairy Tale Tree".
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.
Lithuania's national opera and ballet company performs here on the Main Stage, with the smaller Red Foyer used for chamber events.
Alongside the evening repertoire runs a children's program: ballets for kids such as "Enchanted Eyes", a Mozart-scored story about friendship and a professor who builds robots, and "Music for Tiny Ears", a classical concert for babies in a room set up for them. Backstage tours run too.
Menų spaustuvė (Arts Printing House) is a contemporary performing arts center in a historic printing house building, open since 2002. Its stages host theater, dance, circus and music for babies, kids and teens, much of it through the KITOKS international festival and its year-round KITOKS presents series. Workshops run for every age group, alongside a contemporary circus school.
Keistuoliai started in 1989, when three music conservatory students and their lecturer set up the first independent theater of its kind in Lithuania. It still plays in the Press House (Spaudos rūmai), a Soviet-era tower.
Weekend daytime shows are made for children, such as a play about the world of childhood built around kids' own sayings. Evening plays and concerts are for teens and adults.
This puppet theater has staged shows since 1958 and plays in the Oginskiai Palace on Arklių Street. The children's repertoire mixes puppet, shadow and object theater, from Pinocchio, Cinderella and The Snow Queen to new Lithuanian plays.
In the cellar, the Living Puppet Museum shows puppets, masks and set pieces made in the theater's own workshops in the same building, with tours led by professional puppeteers.
The museum fills the building where the Soviet NKVD and KGB worked from 1940 to 1991, opposite Lukiškės Square. Upstairs, rooms of documents, photos, maps and personal belongings cover deportations to the gulags and the partisan war in the forests.
The basement holds the preserved prison: the cells, a padded isolation cell and the former execution room. The subject is heavy, so it suits teens more than younger kids.
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.
The museum fills the Small Radziwiłł Palace, a 17th-century building in the Old Town whose wing held the Vilnius City Theatre from 1796. The collection covers Lithuanian stage, music and film: costumes, set designs and models, posters, musical instruments, and film cameras made between the 1930s and 1970s. Exhibitions rotate. Workshops for kids cover animation, sound effects for film and set design.
A small museum in a baroque Old Town house, devoted to 50-million-year-old Baltic amber. Kids can hunt for insects trapped in the resin (a mosquito, a grasshopper leg), find amber in white, green and even blue, and see a 3-kilogram piece.
Stairs lead down to a cellar with 15th-century kilns and a patch of street paved 500 years ago. Upstairs is an amber jewelry gallery and shop.
The Treasury of Vilnius Cathedral fills the Church of St. Michael the Archangel and the former Bernardine Convent beside it. Golden chalices and monstrances from the 14th century, set with pearls and gemstones, sit next to richly patterned church textiles.
The whole treasury was hidden before World War II and stayed missing until 1985. Best for school-age kids with patience for display cases.
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.
Danger Park is a safety center where kids learn how to react to emergencies by acting them out. Six themed zones cover a smoky home, street traffic on bikes and scooters, a forest, an airport and plane cabin, natural disasters such as earthquakes, and getting lost in a crowd. An educator leads each group through more than 100 situations, and kids leave with a certificate.
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.
The bastion is a 16th-century piece of the old city wall: a tower, a horseshoe-shaped artillery platform, and a tunnel joining them. Inside, the exhibition shows how the city defended itself, from early grenades and mortars to 17th- and 18th-century cannons. Kids can spot the winged hussars and hear the legend of the Basilisk, said to have lived in a cave in the bastion hill.
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 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 Bank of Lithuania's Money Museum tells the story of money across five halls, about 300 square meters in all. It starts with the oldest forms of exchange, such as grain, fur and amber (long traded in this region), and ends with digital currency.
The exhibits are interactive, and audio guides come in several languages, so kids who don't read Lithuanian can still follow along.
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.
