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In 2024, an important event took place at the museum – the Europos Parkas was included in the Register of Immovable Cultural Properties of Lithuania. This exceptional ensemble of nature and art is a fulfillment of a young artist’s dream and the result of decades of activity and continuous efforts. It is an important object of culture, contemporary art and landscape for Lithuania and Europe.

In the Register of Immovable Cultural Properties of Lithuania, the Europos Parkas has been given a unique object code - 48592. The nature of valuable features: Fine arts (determining significance is important); Landscape; Green areas (determining significance is important). You can find more information in the search by the name of the immovable cultural property or the unique number (48592) https://kvr.kpd.lt/

The Europos Parkas was established a little more than 30 years ago, together with the restoration of Lithuania's Independence. It is symbolic that the dream of the still very young sculptor Gintaras Karosas (b. 1968) - to create an exceptional ensemble of contemporary art and nature, coincided with important events in the history of Lithuania. The year 1987 is the very beginning: location discovery and first forest management. In the historic year of 1991, the first sculpture - "Symbol of the Europos Parkas" (,,Europos parko simbolis“) - was positioned in one of the cleared meadows surrounded by oak trees.

The museum grew together with the independent and free Lithuania. Since 1993, international sculpture symposiums and plein airs of artists have been held every year. Gradually, more and more artists from all over the world, including some of the most famous creators of contemporary art, placed their works, sculptural compositions of various scales, in the forested spaces of the Europos Parkas.

Today, the Europos Parkas is a nationally and internationally recognized museum. It is an exceptional exhibition of contemporary art in the undulating artistic landscape of the Neris Valley, which in itself is a separate work of art. Landscape, art experts and connoisseurs consider the Europos Parkas one of the most interesting open-air art museums in the world.

The museum sculpture exhibition is located in 55 hectares of artistic landscape, through which the main road is built, and on both sides of which a network of natural forest tracks meanders, leading our visitors to a surprising world of harmony, nature and art. In different parts of the museum, the height of the hills covered with pine and mixed forest varies by as much as 30 meters, and there are as many as seven water bodies located between them.

The Europos Parkas museum is also a place where the center of the European continent (established in 1989 by the French National Geographic Institute) is interpreted in the language of art. In 2008 The Europos Parkas was recognized as an important project for the country. For its creation in 2006 Gintaras Karosas was awarded the National Progress Award of the Republic of Lithuania.

Dennis Oppenheim's "Chair-Pool", Sol LeWitt's "Double Negative Pyramid", Gintaras Karosas' " The Place", “LNK Info-tree“ in the photographs of Butautas Barauskas.