The Museum’s exposition presents archaeological exhibits found in Kėdainiai region and the town and provides information about Kėdainiai in the 16th-19th c also during the interwar period, history of national and confessional communities, manors’ life, battles for independence in 1918-1919, the partisan war. Visitors of the Museum can see a monk’s cell, expositions dedicated to Noble prize winner Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004). The permanent exposition presents a lot of rare documents of the 17th-18th c., photographs, the Apytalaukis manor-house furniture set of the 19th c. made of animals’ horns. The Museum also presents unique several meters’ height crosses and shrine-poles made by a self-taught wood-carver Vincas Svirskis (1835-1916). The crosses and shrine-poles decorated with bas-reliefs and high-reliefs of saints, images of animals and plants are carved from a single log.
In 2019 the Museum presented a new interactive exposition ‘The golden century of Kėdainiai in tales of the town’s residents of the 17th c.’.
The exposition consists of an interactive Kėdainiai model, where 7 characters provides information about education, the manor, trade and relationships between various confessions of that time based on historical facts.
The selection of the characters that tale various stories was based on the main and most important national and confessional communities of the town.
Visitors, by putting figures on highlighted spots, can hear stories told by the Lithuanian Evangelic Reformed priest, Lithuanian Calvinist gymnasium student, Evangelic Lutheran, Scottish merchant, Jew, Catholic woman and a greyhound dog Karūna. The model is supplemented with 3D animation.
Another new Museum’s exposition is dedicated to the events of the Second World War and the post-war period. The exposition ‘Losses in 1940 – 1953’ provides information about deportation of Lithuania residents to Siberia organized by the Soviet authorities, the partisan war and the Holocaust’ using a multimedia projector.
In 2021 the Museum presents 4 new expositions: ‘Czesław Miłosz – a genius born in Kėdainiai region’, ‘Kėdainiai links with the world’, ‘Kėdainiai – multinational town of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’ and ‘The Dukes Radziwills – the town’s owners’.
In addition to permanent expositions, the Museum organizes temporary exhibitions, cultural events, themed trips and guided tours of the Museum and its branches, Kėdainiai old-town and region.
