Museum of the Center of Europe EUROPOS PARKAS

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Europos Parkas invites you to take a different look at the world of art and nature

2021 06 15

Refreshing raw nature and impressive art – there is a little bit of everything for everyone at the open-air museum. Considering the current trends, Europos Parkas aims to create more possibilities for discovery for single visitors and visiting families. New, surprising experiences will happen when you find ways to look at things ‘differently’.

From now on, every inquisitive mind that wants to learn more or take a different look can access a brand new, virtual tour guide around the open-air museum on their phone that is just a few clicks away.The new app is designed both to help you make your discoveries and provide you with exciting and useful information and to enhance your Europos Parkas experience. From now on, there is a different way for you to experience the open-air art museum, learn more, notice new details, really take a deep dive here. For instance, you can skip decades of history and take part in the creative process or the accommodation of a new work of art at the museum, or listen to exciting stories as you walk along the park’s pathways.

The world of marvellous art gives you inspiration and a refreshment for your soul, time spent in nature is critical for your health and physical wellbeing, and modern technologies open up new paths to discovery.

Europos Parkas is acontemporary art museum near Vilnius, its open-air display spanning 55 hectares of creative landscape. Europos Parkas is the first NGO museum in Lithuania. Here, the language of art is used to give meaning to the geographical centre of the continent of Europe as mapped by the French National Geographic Institute. Embark on a special journey around Europos Parks, get to know both the art and the nature that surrounds it, discover the connection between human creative work and nature, and listen.

The open-air museum showcases unique artwork by some of the most prominent figures in the modern art world, such as Magdalena Abakanowicz’s Space of Unknown Growth, Sol LeWitt’s Double Negative Pyramid, Dennis DenisoOpenheim’s Chair/Pool, and others. At Europos Parkas, you can also find a sculpture made of old TV sets, which has its own entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, the Educational Centre with its sculptural architecture, and other works of landscape art by Gintaras Karosas. The museum’s collection features a lot of works by Lithuanian artists as well. This is also a place where you can find sombre and composed artwork by artists from Japan and other Asian countries, expressive works by US and South American creative people, and works of art from different European states.

The project ‘A Different Look at the World of Art and Nature at Europos Parkas’ is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.