Klaipeda Sea Museum
F2. Maritime Culture, Heritage, Archaeology, Art and MuseumsDefinition
Lithuanian Baltic maritime institution.
The Lithuanian Sea Museum in Klaipeda, opened 1979 in a nineteenth-century Prussian fortress on the Curonian Spit at the mouth of the Curonian Lagoon. It combines an aquarium, a dolphinarium, and maritime ethnography of the Baltic coast, including fishing-boat collections and Curonian Spit weathervanes. The museum sits within the Curonian Spit, a UNESCO World Heritage Site shared between Lithuania and Russia, listed in 2000.
Source: Lithuanian Sea Museum, Klaipeda, opened 1979, in a nineteenth-century fortress on the Curonian Spit.