• Young visitors are also amused by the inhabitants of the mini-zoo located in the park – featuring birds and animals. ... Grūtas, 66441 Druskininkai.
  • Entrance to the park with an exposition depicting the Soviet repression and the Gulag camps.[2]. A statue of Joseph Stalin in Grūtas Park.
  • After opening Grutas Park in 2001, Viliumas Malinauskas reminded visitors that it was better to see something once than hear about it ten times.
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  • Grūtas Park. Gruta, Lithuania. Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues. ... Add Grūtas Park to a New List. View all photos.
  • Probably one of the strangest outdoor museums is Grūtas Park, right outside Lithuania’s capital city of Vilnius, in which nearly a hundred different statues of Soviet...
  • The Grutas Park statues remain significant in the lives of those who see them, although the context of the park has changed the experience of visiting them.
  • In the West, this place is known as Leninland or Stalinworld. Grutas Park is a museum that mimics the style of the Soviet-era gulag camps.
  • Grūtas Park and its founder Malinauskas won the 2001 Ig Nobel Peace Prize (see List of Ig Nobel Prize winners#2001).
  • Grutas Park also contains a mini-zoo, playgrounds, and cafes, all populated by relics of the Soviet era. On annual special occasions, actors stage re-enactments...