365 days in Vilnius: Day 107. Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania. Vilnius Museums

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Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania - completely rebuilt, partially opened in 2009, and finally opened in 2018.

The Museum offers 4 tour routes.

In order to visit all 4 routes you must have a lot of energy and and a lot of time. Thanks God they have a cafe inside, so when you get really tired and hungry you could have some lunch.
Shortly, you wil need half a day - the whole day to visit all 4 routes on your own.

Routes I and II host permanent exhibitions.

My favourite spot on route I is on the 1st floor - a short 3D movie.
You put on 3D glasses, grab strongly handrails and the adventure begins.
The short movie takes you high above the whole Cathedral Square and you see how the surroundings have been changing during the centuries. You start your journey in acient times when only first people used to live there and you end it in nowadays times. You see how the Palace, the upper castle and the Cathedral have been changing.

Amazing experience! I really recommend it! Price - 2 eur (well, in 2019 used to be :))

Routes III and IV are newly opened in 2018 and host temporal exhibitions.

One of the newest exhibitions is The Radziwills. History and legacy of the princes.

As usually, I have visted the exhibition with a musuem tour guide (on Thursdays with prior registration)
Although most of the facts were known to me, exhibition is really interesting.

It may be more interesting to those who are at least intermediate in history of Lithuania and especially interesting to those who are fans of The Radziwills history.