House-Museum of Venclova family opened in the apartment of the writer Antanas Venclova, where he lived from 1945 to 1971. Antanas Venclova (1906-1971) was a Lithuanian writers and public figures, as well as the popular writer of the Lithuanian SSR. In this house, located on the street 34 The Pamenkalnё, visited by many enlightened people of Lithuania, and his grown son - Tomas Venclova. The son of Lithuanian poet Antanas also became a poet, besides, he was a translator, literary critic and essayist.

Formation of the fund of the museum was laid in 1973 after the museum was founded in Vilnius writers. The largest number of exhibits have been donated to the museum his wife Eliza Antanas Ventslovene from which the museum is working now.

In 1990, A. Venclova Memorial Museum became independent on the order of Vilnius City Department of Culture. By order of the Minister of Culture of the items and exhibits of the museum A. Venclova were withdrawn from the Museum of Vilnius Writers. By 1991, A. Venclova Memorial Museum was transformed into a memorial room Venclova, who was in Vilnius House of Culture, closed in 1996 - from this moment Museum has found its place in the Vilnius Centre for Ethnic activity.

In 2004, the museum got its name: "The house-museum family Venclova." In June 2005, the Council of Vilnius Municipality has decided to separate the house-museum of Vilnius Centre for Ethnic and activities along with some other memorial apartment of famous people have become one of the Directorate of Vilnius Memorial Museums.

At the moment, the house-museum collection has about 8000 exhibits. The collection includes: Tomas Venclova fund, the fund and the fund anatase Venclova family Račkauskas, accumulation of the collection which started recently.

Since 1996, it works exhibition of the museum, which has an office equipped with authentic Antanas Venclova. It is all the furniture of the writer, as well as most of the personal belongings and art objects that existed during the life of the writer. The exhibition "The office of A. Venclova" reflects the everyday life of Lithuanian intelligentsia towards the 40-50-ies of the 20th century in the city of Vilnius.

Adulthood writer, poet and public figure, passed during the Soviet occupation, which is characterized by dramatic and multiple contradictions. When the Soviet Government of Lithuania Venclova was Minister of Education and held a prominent post of chairman of the Union of Writers and other no less important positions.

In 1940, he singled out the money for the reconstruction of the castle of Trakai, and then took part in organizing the founding of the Museum of Rural Life, took care of bringing on track museum in Nyuronis where is the birthplace of the writer J. Biliunas, preserving land Mann in Nida. In addition, he introduced overwork in shaping public opinion about the composer and artist MK Čiurlionis, give him his due place in the history of Lithuanian culture.

Antanas Venclova participated in the creation of a series of books is especially important for the preservation of cultural wealth and heritage of the people of Lithuania - "Lithuania" folk art "and" Lituanisticheskaya Library ", make great efforts to ensure that these books were published. Venclova in close contact with the writer A. and B. Mykolaitis Vienuolis-Putinas, sculptor and artist Yu Mikėnas S. Krasauskas. In his famous apartment visited by a huge number of well-known people such as himself who were Russian, Estonian, Ukrainian, German, Chinese, Polish cultural figures.

The cultural situation of the family home Venclova supported not only by the outstanding father and his activities, and his wife Eliza Venlovene, her sister - artist Maria Tsvirkene and father - a professor of philology at Kaunas, then the University of Vilnius.

A significant role in educating families played and scholar, translator and expert in ancient languages ​​Merkelis Račkauskas; father's brother - a translator and writer Vairas-Rachkauchkas Carolis, who was a pre-war Lithuanian diplomat.

To date, the museum strives to attract the younger generation. The museum has a lot of books Tomas Venclova, going to previously unknown archive materials. Leaders of the museum aim to find more information about relatives Venclova, for example, M. Tsvirkene, M. Račkauskas, as well as literary and political activities of T. Venclova. The museum collaborates with the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and secondary and higher educational institutions of Lithuania.