I have to admit, given the hype, I was somewhat disappointed by the sea life expositions. I am no expert, so my impression might be wrong, but the seals, penguins and pelicans outside did not seem like having a good time and the spaces they have seemed rather dull. :/ The interior of the main building is quite pretty, the coral, shells and crustaceans exposition is very cool but I expected more live fishes in the later part. Some of the fish expositions were static figurines, a big part of the aquaria was river life which is still cool and I don't mind but it is a sea museum after all, the grand finale was the tunnel which even for me as an adult that's never seen one before was just alright but quite short and only filled with sturgeons. However, I didn't use it but I appreciate the amount of interactive stuff for children, I would have a blast if I was twenty years younger. The exterior spaces of the former fortress are also interesting to walk around. :) On the other hand, I enjoyed the naval expositions very much. Those I think are more targeted towards adults and children might get a bit bored, even though there still are some interactive features. These naval expositions are full of interesting items and information and I can sincerely recommend that part. There's also a small exhibition about noise pollution in the sea and Lithuanian military sea divers. Overall, I am bit conflicted. I will probably not visit again unless I have children of a suitable age with me but I also don't necessarily want to discourage anyone. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Outside of the museum, there are also ships that are visitable for free, the biggest one houses a small exposition. Those I would recommend either way.

One word: Awesome! A must-visit while you're in Klaipėda. Take a short ferry ride from the Old Ferry Terminal to Smiltynė — the museum is just a 15-minute walk from there. The Marine Museum and Aquarium are both fantastic, and with separate tickets, you can also enjoy the impressive Dolphin Show. A great half-day trip that’s fun, educational, and memorable. Highly recommended!

Worth to visit. The dolphins and sea lion show was amazing. And I loved the message about sea pollution and how we can help to reduce it. Will definitely coming back! 💙💙

Good museum, a fair bit of sea life, as well as ships and history exhibits.

Average, recommended for children. Wouldn't visit a second time.

The Lithuanian Sea Museum is absolutely amazing! The exhibits are beautifully presented, from marine life and aquariums to historical displays about ships and sea exploration. The dolphin and sea lion shows are a real highlight - fun, well-organized, and educational. The museum is clean, family-friendly, and easy to explore, with plenty of information in multiple languages. The location by the sea is stunning, and the ferry ride adds to the adventure. A must-visit for families, nature lovers, and anyone visiting Klaipeda!

Definitely worth a stop. In the outside area one can see penguins and seals. Top floor of the aquarium has exhibitions of various sea creatures. The middle section has river and sea fish, and on the bottom floor one can go through a tunnel underneath the water pool and see all the gigantic fish! Really cool! We also stayed to see the dolphin and sea lion show. It’s about 30 minutes long which fits perfect with the ferry departure time back to Klaipeda. It went well to buy the tickets on spot. No queues.

An exceptionally cozy place that we highly recommend visiting—both for guests of the city and for Klaipėda locals. The museum features many fascinating historical artifacts and cleverly arranged exhibitions, along with extremely helpful staff. We strongly recommend taking a guided tour—you’ll discover truly interesting facts about clocks and much more.

A very nice place to learn about the history of watches. There is no similar museum anywhere in Europe. I definitely recommend visiting.

The house has 9 rooms in total and different era/styles in different room telling you a story about evolution of measuring time. Can use tablet for prerecorded guiding. Great collection and friendly staff. It also houses some famous oil paintings from Ukraine for some time. Also dont miss cosy and wide backyard with some intresting stone work!

An amazing museum) What a wonderful trip to a world history of clocks! The museum features exhibits of clock and watches from the past to the present times. Here you can see the device with the help of which people around the world tried to measure the time. You start with the examples of clocks in the Ancient East tradition and head for the next exhibition where strange examples of clocks are shown. Some of these clock and watches look like a real masterpiece! The collection of clocks from European countries are really fantastic! Moreover, there are a nice space to spend time with your children in the inner courtyard. You should take a picture there. The best time for visiting the museum is May because of the magnificent views in the courtyard. Don't overlook this incredible museum!

Really enjoyed this museum. Great information, and had cards in english four items on display. We also had a little bonus as they had a separate room with some great paintings in it. Definitely would recommend checking it out.

Fantastic and unique museum that takes you through the history of clocks 🕰️ ⏰ Starting from ancient clocks that utilised the elements like solar (sun for sun dials), water, fire and sand. I was amazed to discover that Egyptians were the first to create the sun dial and water clocks. You’ll see mechanical clocks, stopwatches,table clocks, pocket watches and even beautifully decorated Baroque and Art Nouveau clocks. Highly recommend it to learn more about the history of clocks, it’s fascinating 👍🏽👍🏽 The staff are also very friendly and will always help u find the clocks in the tablet audio guide 👍🏽👍🏽

Really enjoyed this quirky, fabulous museum. Even the stained glass had references to time! Such a variety of clocks, from all over the world, telling the time in a myriad of ways. They are all well signed and displayed in such a beautiful building. Well worth a visit.

There 3 different showings. The WW2 museum, a Davinci exhibition and the middle ages one. Each has it's own tickets. Kids or students get half price tickets which was nice. Not allot of artifacts, but a really good over view on the story of Klapedia. The big red castle was not open for viewings. Before going, look up the parking areas close to the castle.

Who are interested in history, will find plenty of stuff to browse through. Be aware that some spaces can have quite cold temperatures for the purpose of preserving the historic artifacts. Bring something warm to coat yourself in.

A museum is built on the remains of the Klepeida castle. There is a model of the old city. This is an archaeological museum, the research done is very thorol and professional. Presented on the subjects of history, daily life in ancient times, goods, spices, professions, details of clothing, law, church, wars and conquests. The exhibits and information are very clear and the way they are presented is fascinating. Most of the museum is translated into English. Some are shown inside a bunker and the atmosphere is special. The place is clean, service and pleasant staff. On The outside looks simple, the inside is fascinating, worth a visit, fair price. We spent two and a half hours with teenagers

Medieval Klaipėda was a small town. The ideas of the Reformation and the Renaissance gave a great impetus to the development of the city. The symbol of Renaissance Klaipėda is found in the castle from the 16th century. a gold ring with a jewel of a middle nobleman. The atmosphere of the townspeople's life and fashion are reflected in green glazed cobblestones, remains of shoes, household items, craftsman's work tools, coins, imported items. One of the most interesting exhibits is the 17th century. the layout of the second half of Klaipėda castle and city, created after analyzing archaeological, historical, cartographic, iconographic sources. The computer terminal installed in the castle museum allows visitors to independently obtain information on the history of Klaipėda.

We were unfortunately not able to buy tickets to get into the castle due to a (frankly) rude ticket agent. The museum wasn’t super busy, there was absolutely no line at the time, and we walked up with the necessary money in hand to pay for 4 tickets, but were refused service. Really not sure what could have caused her reactions, it was only about a minute total in interaction where she seemed extremely annoyed at our presence and repeatedly told us to go elsewhere. We were visiting as part of a cruise, so perhaps she was tired of all the English speaking tourists from the day? Whatever it was, we were obviously not welcome there, so we sadly just left. The castle is underwhelming from the outside, and we unfortunately were not able to explore inside. We had heard the museum was really cool, but there’s no way i can rate the experience we had higher than 1 star.

If you are visiting Klaipeda this museum will give you a good understanding of the city's history, it's growth and importance through time. Audio guide is included and is very good. Watch the film projected onto the back wall of the second room first, then follow the audio trail. A good 3-4 hours could be spent here. Highly recommended. Staff are welcoming and friendly. Great experience.

Nice museum to go during the rainy day, many displays about différent eras of Klaipeda history. I enjoyed seeing the story of Teutonic knights and Hansetic times. With your ticket you have an all day access to différent halls. Totally worth for the small ticket price

It has some nice spots, but going with a car is ridiculous. The ferry is 20€, and when you get to the split itself you’ll have to pay 50€ for the entrance. 50€ is too much for any national park, but that’s not even all. They’ll make you pay 5€ for trails. That’s right. You can’t see the Dead Dunes unless you pay extra. When i asked if 50€ wasn’t a lot of money already the lady said ”next year it may be 100€”. You’ll feel scammed at the end. So avoid the feeling and don’t go at all.

Curonian Spit National Park encompasses the Lithuanian part of the Curonian Spit, along with the adjacent Baltic Sea and Curonian Lagoon. Established in 1991, the park covers an area of ​​264 km². Due to its landscape and shifting sand dunes, it has been included on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Curonian Spit separates the Baltic Sea from the Curonian Lagoon. Neringa, Lithuania's most popular spa town, is located there. It is a small urban area, approximately 50 kilometers long, formed by the merger of four former fishing settlements: Juodkrante, Prevalka, Preili, and Nida. The entrance fee to the National Park is €50 per car. The round-trip ferry from Klaipėda to the Curonian Spit costs €23.

The place is gorgeous. We visited by car but if we had known beforehand that there’s 50 euro entrance free for cars in addition to ferry ticket, we would have planned differently. Also entering one of the main dunes is 5 euros. Kind of felt like a beautiful tourist trap. Next time I’d explore by bike maybe. Or maybe not. The bird colony hike made everything worth it. It felt like a scene from a Hitchcock movie. That was quite unusual.

What a rip off. 1st you pay 23€ for ferry to island that is 3mins long, then upon arrivle you pay additional 50€ fee to enter with a car. If you wanna park somewhere around Nida that will cost you another 24€ for a day and any attraction to visit is additional fee of, for example 5€ per person fod Sand dunes. Deff nothing special about this park to cost that much. Go to any Croatian island for free and you will enjoy it much more then this. Joke

Great place to explore nature, sea and fune food. Great sand and dunes, woods, pitoresque villages

Very nice, calm but busy place in right time of the year prices not a mega high

Beautiful and epic dunes worth stopping by when in Lithuania, You can be friends with foxes in the parking lot, though don't feed them as the signs suggest!✨️🦊

The best restaurant in Klaipėda! I visited this place a few years ago and came back to see if it’s still as good—and it absolutely is! The food is made from seasonal ingredients, perfectly prepared, and full of flavor. Service was impeccable and warm, just like before. Highly recommended if you’re looking for quality dining in Klaipėda! 🌟

Gosh this was an absolute delight - if you are ever on Lithuanian seaside, restaurant Monai is a must-experience. From heavenly food to every detail giving aesthetic joys. And a stunning team that we instantly fell in love with ❤️ In old Lithuanian, “monai” means casting spells, magic tricks. And this absolutely felt like it. We were all in awe, the taste of everything was just beyond possible to describe, what an unforgettable time.

Visited in Sep 2025 Monai is undoubtedly one of the most popular restaurants in Klaipeda and also features in the Michelin Guide for the last two years. We had made a reservation and aid say reservations are recommended as this place is quite popular. The menu here is an a-la-carte menu but I think they can create a set menu for you if you ask them. We ordered one starter course (tuna tartare) and 3 mains (halibut fillet, octopus, beef fillet). The tuna tartare appetiser course was fantastic. Among the mains we ordered, the beef fillet was my favourite course. Also ordered a couple of desserts which were very nice too. For drinks, I just ordered a couple of drinks from their non-alcoholic menu. Service was very nice here and we were constantly attended to by the restaurant staff. Overall, I think a meal at Monai is a must do if you’re visiting Klaipeda.

This restaurant visit started with promise but ended with a disappointment — mostly thanks to a waiter who seemed to think arrogance was part of the menu. The concept is actually fun: at the beginning, you choose how much “presence” you’d like from the staff, from low-key service to full-on storytelling about the food. We picked the short telling about the food option, imagining a charming little narrative with our meal. What we got instead was a card explaining what should have happened… but didn’t. When we asked the waiter to tell us about the dishes, he said (in flawless English) that he still needed time to “translate.” Translation: couldn’t be bothered. Knowing the menu is Hospitality — language skills clearly weren’t the problem, but attitude definitely was. The food? Decent. Not bad, but not nearly good enough to forgive the service. The cocktails, however, were genuinely good. P.S. The 10% tip we didn’t leave “Monai” found its way to the bartender at Faksas instead. She was everything the waiter wasn’t: professional, warm, and a pleasure to meet.

Overrated and overpriced restaurant. It's not normal that tasting menu was not offered after 8pm, it was not mentionned when the réservation was made. Globally food is tasty and well cooked, some original Flavour. But price is too high, 34€ for an Octopus Dish. There is no amuse bouche between the Dishes (quite unusual for a Michelin recommanded restaurant). Again, why making a Dish with plenty of sauce and not offering any bread, the waitress doesn't even bring a spoon. Globally quite disappointed by the expérience, expected to spend more to taste but finally didn't even take the dessert.

We had a wonderful evening at Monai. We had the tasting menu and were very impressed by the quality and the service. Amazing food!

Great restaurant with fabulous food. Where here for dinner, all the dishes were amazing. Starter - tuna tartar was very good, but main - beef, was fabulous, cooked exactly as I ordered. And the star of the evening pistachio desert...it was like cherry on the top of the evening. Great restaurant, amazing staff, calm and professional work of the kitchen (you can see how they prepare all dishes) definitely recommend. 👌🏼

They have one vegan dish which is very tasty and filling, perfect size for lunch, not too much and not too little. A bit pricey but considering the location that’s understandable. Overall very recommended since there are barely vegan options in Lithuania.

Nice freshly opened place for bowls and sushi, situated in a very cozy terraces in three floors close to the old forest. Very calm and relaxing place. Good for small or bigger companies. Wonderful dessert - Panna Cotta with coconut. Lovely and attentive staff.

Meniu consists of sushi and poke bowls. The later is really original and interesting dish. Though the portion size is not very big and the bowl should be considered a snack rather than a full dish, it tasted really good and came at a rational price. The environment was cozy and staff was friendly. Really recommend to check this place out.

We had the salmon and tuna bowls, and both were amazing and incredibly fresh. The service was professional, quick, and pleasant. Additionally, the location is great. Highly recommend!

Both sushi and bowls were fresh and tasty. Good location - this place is located on the way to the beach from Juodkrantė.

Fine, not complicated food out of sushi components at decent prices. Quiet place, attentive staff.

5 super stars for this gem, place to eat, you must try food here, excellent service, exceptionally tasty food, omg place

Without a doubt, the best quality food in Klaipėda. Everything is made with top ingredients and real care. The pizza was incredible — full of flavor with a perfect Neapolitan crust. Prices are a bit high but worth it. Definitely try the steak tartare, it might be the best steak tartare starter I’ve ever had.

Alba Bistro is such a lovely spot in Klaipėda! The staff are incredibly welcoming and make you feel right at home as soon as you walk in. The food is absolutely delicious – you can really tell they care about quality and pay attention to every little detail. Everything feels fresh, well thought out, and full of flavor. Great vibes, great service, and a place I’ll definitely be coming back to.

We really enjoyed our meal here. They had vegetarian options. I really liked the double ravioli which I had never heard of (Sweet potato and ricotta)! Obviously, a great wine selection as well. The staff was warm and welcoming. We sat out in the little greenhouse.

We had breakfast at Albo Gastro Bar, and it was absolutely delicious! The food was flavorful, and the beautiful interior added to the lovely atmosphere. The service was great, making our experience even more enjoyable. However, I was a bit disappointed that there were no sweet options suitable for breakfast on the menu. Overall, it was a wonderful place to start the day!

What a great brunch we had in Klaipeda, Lithuania, in Old Town. The Croque Madame was delicious. Yum! And they know how to make a cappuccino! Bravo! Anna took wonderful care of us. Thank you Anna!

Dinner at this place is always a highlight when visiting Klaipeda. Pizzas are excellent and Copenhagen sparkling tea is one of the tastiest non-alco options you can get.

TL;DR: I fully agree with other reviewers who say the price tag doesn’t match the experience - the quality-to-price ratio is heavily skewed. To be fair, nothing was outright terrible, but the whole experience was mediocre and forgettable: the food (including their much-praised tiramisu), the limited menu choices, the lack of ambience - all at “fine dining in a major European capital” prices. On top of that, the ventilation system was clearly inadequate - the dining area close to the pizza oven was filled with fumes and the heavy smell of burnt dough. In my opinion, Bistro Alba is massively overrated and overpriced. I was especially surprised by all the glowing 5 star reviews praising the tiramisu. Anyone who’s ever eaten tiramisu in Italy - or even made one at home - would be stunned by the bone-dry, sandpaper-like ladyfingers. The cream was tasty, though a bit runny, but the biscuits hadn’t been soaked in coffee at all. That’s a travesty :) To be balanced: the pizza dough was very good, but the toppings were meager. And at €22 for a pizza, it’s overpriced even compared to other holiday destinations in Europe. Service was friendly and efficient. My only quibble: crushed black pepper served in a tiny bowl with a spoon rather than a proper pepper mill or even a shaker. In an Italian bistro, that says a lot and is very emblematic of this place - we’ll charge you €40 for a bottle of prosecco (not even Valdobbiadene), but no pepper mills in sight :) I hear this restaurant made it onto a Michelin recommendation list, which is probably why people flock to try it - as we did. But our group of six left deeply underwhelmed.