Outdoor Daukanto 16 is a beautiful house-museum of Anastas Monchisa. This museum is one of the few museums of recovery based upon the right to independence of Lithuania, covering contemporary art. By visiting it, you can get a broad picture of the work of the great sculptor and artist.

The famous sculptor modernist Monchis Anastas was born in 1921 in the village of Monchay Kretinga district. In 1941 he graduated from high school Kretinga then became closely study architecture at the University of Kaunas Vytautas the Great. In 1944, the sculptor was forced to leave Lithuania and go to the West, namely France, where he finally was able to form his own taste and artistic preferences. But, despite this, it is rightly considered by the Lithuanian artist, because even outside the country, he bequeathed all his works to his native land in which grown.

Since 1952, and in that time he lived in France, Anastas began to participate in exhibitions and has created 16 sculptures. Throughout 1960 and 1992 we have been Monchisa not only the group but also the personal exhibitions in Australia, USA, Monaco, Germany, Belgium, Italy, France, Canada and Lithuania. At the same time he taught at the Summer Academy in France and Germany. In 1982, Anastas Monchis became a member of the jury of the International Federation of Photographic Art. In 1991, Lithuania was an exhibition of photographs Monchisa in the Lithuanian Art Museum.

In 1992, the great sculptor bequeathed all his works of Palanga where the Vilnius Center for Contemporary Art held an exhibition of his works. Works of art, imported from France and Germany, were brought home in 1993 spring.

Foundation for the Preservation of the creative heritage of Anastas Monchisa opened and registered 27 October 1993 decided to take responsibility for creating galleries of outstanding painters: it was planned to exhibit the collection of works by continuously increasing the wizard.

The following year (1993) Anastas Monchisa died in Paris, but was buried not far from the graves of his parents at the cemetery Grushlaukes summer on July 10. Some time later - in 1999 - it was inaugurated House Museum Anastas Monchisa in Palanga.

The opening of the museum - the result of persistent work of enthusiasts, as well as faith in the goal. The house-museum of Anastas Monchisa becomes a real haven of all works by the author, which keep the incredible spirit of the famous sculptor.

Premium collection of the museum is about two hundred works of the great masters. Here are his drawings, graphic works, sketches of the artist and unusual shaped sculpture and a variety of compositions, the largest number of which is represented in the park, located on the territory of the museum. Exhibited in the museum exhibits visitors can touch it. Materials such as stone, wood, amber, tin, plastic, metal, bone, clay and slate - were part of his works. All the creations of the great sculptor expressed: pain or laughter, sadness, or a joke, dream, loneliness, or poetry - each work carries a certain emotions.

All sculptures A. Monchisa embody the most incredible ideas, and ideas and carry the flow of energy and vitality. The content of the sculptures has been fighting with the space, with its height and length, reuniting the line edges and bends. It seems that any material in the hands of the artist immediately acquires the metaphorical form. Transforming natural materials in the form of concrete objects, Monchis approaching the structure of nature itself: its flexibility and variability, the extent and form of strangeness.

When you create a stone, wood, metal objects that represent real puzzle game, the author could have done amazing things from a skeleton made of wood before the whistle, made of clay, from the figure of a juggler to a shaman mask. Sculptor has always attracted a variety of oddities that drew his imagination, and then immediately poured into all new items of cultural heritage.

It is thanks to the work of the great masters A. Monchisa you can experience the full flavor of the Lithuanian nation.