The concept of the collection at Vokiečių 6 is closely connected to the aim of this branch of the museum: to systematically collect, subject to scholarly investigation, and present in a contemporary fashion the history, day-to-day culture, urban structure, architecture, social and demographic processes, and communities of Vilnius, as well as other aspects of the city’s life. 

The collection is composed of artefacts related to the area of the city of Vilnius (both current and historical), the people that live or once lived in Vilnius and their activities, and significant events that took place in the city. These might be domestic or personal items, documents, photographs, books, letters, memoirs, recordings of interviews, printed material, works of art, or other kinds of objects. The branch of the museum also collects artefacts created or manufactured in Vilnius.

When this branch of the museum was founded in 2021, as a separate institution known as the Vilnius Museum, it had no collection to speak of. By 2025, the number of artefacts in the possession of Vokiečių 6 exceeded 3,000. Objects and documents were inherited, purchased, or donated by local people and local institutions. In 2024, the museum’s collection received a major new addition, a generous collection of Vytautas Kernagis’ personal belongings, entrusted to the museum by the singer’s family. Since 2025, this branch of the museum has worked with the art historian, curator and photographer Virginijus Kinčinaitis. The result of this collaborative effort is that the collection will soon grow to include no less than 150 digital photographs of present-day Vilnius. 

Like other branches of the Vilnius City Museum, Vokiečių 6 welcomes personal and institutional donations of artefacts linked to the history and culture of the city. It is important that the artefacts fit the theme of the collection and its selection criteria. 

Would you like to donate insignia related to a Vilnius-based company, a piece of equipment manufactured in the capital, the blueprint for a built or unrealised building or district, pictures of the city, recordings of the Vilnius soundscape, or simply tell your story? Write to us at info@vilniausmuziejus.lt! 

The collection in this branch of the museum includes around 3,300 items. Most of the collection is composed of Beatričė Grincevičiūtė’s memorabilia, art, books, music collection, photographs, letters and sheet music. The collection was formed in 1998 when Beatričė’s sister Kristina Grincevičiūtė-Morkevičienė and her niece Liucija Grincevičiūtė handed over about 2,000 items to the museum. In 2022, the collection was expanded to include new exhibits received from the Lithuanian Audiosensory Library. 

Many of the older items come from the Ilguva estate (in the Šakiai district), which belonged for centuries to the Grincevičius family. The collection also contains photographs of Beatričė with her relatives and friends.

Beatričė’s own record collection reflects a variety of musical styles and genres. It includes instrumental, vocal and choral works, as well as recordings of music performed by Beatričė herself. The collection includes pieces performed by Valentinas Adamkevičius, Juozas Indra, Kipras Petrauskas, Nicolai Gedda, Stanisław Gruszcynski, Jan Kiepura, Wiesław Ochman and Teresa Żylis-Gara, recordings of operas by Vincenzo Bellini, Charles Gounod, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, and symphonic music by Béla Bartok, Justinas Bašinskas, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Julius Juzeliūnas, Gustav Mahler, Vytautas Montvila, Anton Bruckner, and others. 

The sheet music collection includes printed music and manuscripts. The music manuscript collection includes pieces composed for Beatričė by the following composers: Valentinas Bagdonas, Vitolio Baumilo, Konstancija Brundzaitė, Jurgis Gaižauskas, Vytautas Jurgutis, Aleksandras Kačanauskas, Juozas Karosas, Algimantas Kubiliūnas, Vytautas Mikalauskas, Mikalojus Novikas, Vytautas Paltanavičius, Leonas Povilaitis, Vladas Švedas and Genovaitė Vanagaitė. The catalogue of sheet music includes music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Balys Dvarionas, Edvard Grieg, Juozas Karosas, Vytautas Klova, Viktoras Kuprevičius, Juozas Tallat-Kelpša, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Karol Szymanowski, Frédéric Chopin, and many other Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Czech, German, Italian and French composers.

Beatričė’s home library is modest. It includes books in Lithuanian, Polish, Russian and German. The oldest are Nowelle i obrazki by Michał Bałucki, published in Warsaw in 1885, Wybór poezyj (1890) by Ludwik Kondratowicz (Vladislovas Sirokomlė), and Fermenty by (1897) Władysław Stanisław Reymont.

Beatričė’s House has also preserved a collection of postcards and letters to Beatričė. The archive includes letters from famous individuals (such as Juozas Urbšys, a minister of foreign affairs of independent Lithuania, the director Jadvyga Janulevičiūtė, and composer Balys Dvarionas), and admirers, as well as concert programmes and photographs. 

Some of the more noteworthy personal items at the museum include watches for the blind, Beatričė’s handiwork, Braille writing tools, dishes, and various interior details that reflect the aristocratic and Soviet periods of Beatričė’s life. 

The Centre for Wooden Architecture is continually developing its collection and adding new items connected to the tradition of wooden architecture in Vilnius.

The centre collects authentic wooden architectural features, such as pinnacles, shutters, decorative boards, tiles and other parts. The collection also includes both historical and newer photographs of wooden architecture, as well as various documents, such as construction and renovation plans, surveyors’ documents, and research reports. 

Another important part of the collection is the variety of traditional and modern woodworking and restoration tools. The centre’s interest is not just limited to buildings, but encompasses the people who once lived in these houses, so various artefacts that reflect life in the wooden houses of the Vilnius suburbs are collected as well. In addition to all this, the centre also collects information about recent innovations in wooden architecture.

The collection at Markučiai consists of more than 8,000 exhibits. They are the personal belongings of Grigory and Varvara Pushkin, as well as inherited items, including furniture, household items, manuscripts, photographs, photographic negatives, books and other publications from the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, and some of the family papers, consisting of letters, documents from the Markučiai estate, and more. The collection also includes exhibits that were acquired during the period of the museum’s activities from 1940 to 2005, including a valuable collection from the writer Pavel Antokolsky, which was received in 1984. It contains books, manuscripts, memorabilia and works of art (more than 2,000 items).

The museum’s collection is continually being expanded along several thematic lines: items related to Grigory and Varvara Pushkin, their social circle and their public activities, the everyday life and traditions of the landed gentry of Vilnius in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries, and the history of the Markučiai district.