Monument to the Sword Squad Partisans at the Vaclovas Inta Stone Museum
Memorial site

One of the most unique museums in Europe was established in 1979. Its founder is doctor Vaclovas Intas, who since 1957 began collecting stones from the surrounding fields, transporting them to his homestead, and later to other parts of the town. The creation of the museum park began in 1972 in a picturesque 14.5 ha valley on both sides of the Bartuva River. It houses a collection of about 150 thousand stones from the Baltic Sea region - rocks, boulders, which came to Lithuania during the ice ages. The stones are laid out here in the order of where they came from: from Eastern, Central and Western Finland, the bottom of the Gulf of Finland, the Åland archipelago, the bottom of the Gulf of Bothnia, the territories of Southern, Central and Northern Sweden.

There is a monument here in memory of the partisans of the Sword Regiment who fought in Samogitia. The internal exposition is located in a water mill built more than 230 years ago, which now exhibits various rocks, animal and plant fossils, minerals, a colorful sand collection, minerals, and stones formed in the human body. Today, the museum has a scientific, geological, cognitive, educational, environmental, ethnic, cultural, tourist, and recreational meaning.