Švenčionys Railway Museum

The Švenčionys Railway Museum preserves Lithuania's railway heritage at a town that owes its existence to the iron road. Located at a historic junction on the route from Vilnius to the northeast, the museum houses vintage locomotives, passenger carriages, signaling equipment, and archival materials spanning Lithuania's railway history from Tsarist-era construction through independence, wartime destruction, and Soviet-era reconstruction. The outdoor exhibits include a massive Soviet-era diesel locomotive, various types of rolling stock, and railway infrastructure. Indoor galleries explain the social history of rail travel in Lithuania — how railways transformed rural communities, facilitated migration, and served both as instruments of progress and tools of deportation.