Grutas Park, or Grotto, represents one of the most famous museums in Lithuania, located near the town of Druskininkai. In the West, this place is known under the name Leninland or Stalinworld.

Grutas Park is a Museum, imitating the style of the camps of Soviet GULAG system. Here you can see about 100 collected from all over Lithuania monuments, busts, sculptures, bas-reliefs of figures during the revolution, the regime of repression and occupation, as well as medals, posters and other attributes.

In 2001, the Lithuanian businessman Volumes Malinauskas founded the famous Park, now owned by him and his family. The Park is the main source of income of the owner. This berry, mushroom and snail business. Food processing is organized right on the Park. Their bulk is exported.

20 years ago on the Grutas Park was located in a swamp. There was a lot of work to create the necessary site for the Museum. Woodland was drained. Next was brought and sprinkled the earth, the layer on which different sites ranges from 50 centimeters to 2, 5 meters.

The entrance to the open air Museum is organized through the checkpoint, as if in a military town. There you can buy Souvenirs. One of the most popular is the glass with the inscription: "For the Motherland, for the party, for Stalin". There is another option – "For mother, for wife, mistress".

The trees are pouring out of the speakers songs of Soviet times. Fence of barbed wire and watchtowers from the tree resemble a Gulag picture. Bronze mother Crystallisa the exposition opens. This monument, which is dedicated to Lithuanian XVI army division. The face of an 8-foot pieces weighing 12 tons is a portrait of the wife of the author.

Walking along the concrete path, you will see the monument to Soviet soldiers. He was brought from Siauliai. In 1947 it was cast German prisoners from the wreckage messersmith. Massive dural sculpture weighs only 800 pounds. In 1991 when dismantling the monument was found a bottle with a list of people who made. It is interesting that these people (those who survived) managed to find, and some time later they met in the independent Lithuania.

In Grutas you can see and sculptures, made of wood, the prototypes of which are public and political figures of our time. They opposed the creation of the Park and was required to destroy the Soviet monuments.

Also the Museum's collection includes monuments to Stalin, Lenin, Dzerzhinsky, Marx, Lithuanian Communists (Mickevicius-Kapsukas and others), the partisan Marite Melnikaite, military personalities (Baltusis-Zemaitis, Uborevich). And here you will see examples of visual propaganda art (posters, slogans and the like), military and other equipment. In the Park of the exposition "the Narrow gauge train".

Monument to vodka in a metal container is one of the most exotic exhibits. The story of its creation is very interesting. In 2005, one of the Lithuanian Newspapers was a contest for worst pest of the Republic. After the vote was counted the votes and found that not people harm Lithuania, and vodka.

The Park has a small restaurant, decorated in the manner of the Soviet club. Here, in addition to traditional Lithuanian dishes, you can taste dishes of the Soviet time: borscht "Nostalgia" in metal bowls, burgers "goodbye youth" with buckwheat, herring, jelly and so on. And on the street there is a machine where, dropping a coin, you can drink a glass of soda.