On the S. Daukanto street, 16 is a lovely house-Museum of Anastas Monica. This Museum is one of the few museums founded after the restoration of rights on the Independence of Lithuania, covering contemporary art. Visiting it, you can get a broad view of the work of the great sculptor and artist.

Famous sculptor-modernist Anastas Monis was born in 1921 in the village Monday Kretinga district. In 1941 he graduated from Kretinga high school, then became closely to study architecture at Kaunas University of Grand Duke Vytautas. In 1944, the sculptor was forced to leave Lithuania and go to the West, namely to France, where he finally was able to form his taste and artistic preferences. But despite this, he is considered Lithuanian artist, because even outside the country it all works bequeathed to his native land where he had grown up.

With 1952, while he lived in France, Anastas began to participate in exhibitions and created 16 sculptures. During 1960 and 1992 Monica were not only a group, but solo exhibitions in Australia, USA, Monaco, Germany, Belgium, Italy, France, Canada, and Lithuania. At the same time, he taught at the summer academies of France and Germany. In 1982 Anastas Monis became a member of the jury of the International Federation of photographic art. In 1991, Lithuania was an exhibition of photographs by Monica in the Lithuanian art Museum.

In 1992, the great sculptor bequeathed all his works to the city of Palanga, where in the Vilnius Centre of contemporary art held an exhibition of his works. Works of art imported from France and Germany, were brought home in the spring of 1993.

The Foundation for the preservation of the creative legacy of Anastas Monica, outdoor and registered on 27 October 1993, decided to take responsibility for creating the outstanding artist gallery: it was planned to exhibit continuously increasing collection of works of the master.

The following year (1993) Anastas Monica died in Paris, but was buried near the grave of his parents at the cemetery Grassleyes summer on July 10. Some time later – in 1999 – opened the House-Museum of Anastas Monica in Palanga.

The opening of this Museum is the result of persistent work of enthusiasts, and faith in the goal. The house-Museum of Anastas Monica becomes a true refuge of all the works of the author, holds an incredible spirit of the famous sculptor.

The collection of the Museum is about two hundred works of the great masters. Here presents his drawings, graphic works, sketches of the artist and of an unusual form of sculpture and a variety of compositions, most of which are represented in the Park, located on the Museum grounds. Exhibited in the Museum exhibits visitors can touch. Materials such as stone, wood, amber, tin, plastic, metal, bone, clay and slate - are an integral part of all his works. Creations of the great sculptor Express: pain or laughter, sadness or joke, dream, loneliness, or poetry – every job carries a certain emotions.

All the sculptures of A. Monica implement the most incredible ideas and ideas and carry the flow of energy and vitality. The content of the sculptures has been fighting the space, with his height and length, reuniting the line of faces and curves. The impression that any material in the hands of the artist immediately acquires a metaphorical form. Transforming natural forms of materials in specific objects, Monis approaching the structure of nature itself: its flexibility, variability, extent and strange forms.

When creating stone, wood, and metal objects that represent real gaming mysteries, the author could have created amazing things: from the skeleton, made of wood before the whistle made of clay, the figure of the juggler to the mask of the shaman. The sculptor has always attracted a variety of oddities that drew his imagination, then immediately erupt into all new items of cultural heritage.

Thanks to the work of the great master A. Monica you can experience the whole flavor of the Lithuanian nation.