The “Akmens amžius” (“Stone Age”) sculpture park isn’t the kind of place you rush through. It slows you down—almost without asking. The park sits in Šventoji (Palanga municipality), on the territory of the “Energetikas” health centre, and it feels like someone made a very deliberate decision: art should breathe outside, in the open air, where the sea wind can touch it too.
Then comes the number that makes the idea real: around 50 stone sculptures are displayed here today. That’s not a symbolic handful—it's a whole landscape of carved stone. The descriptions highlight craftsmanship and the way old traditions are revealed in a modern context. And yes, that sounds like a tourism line… but here it actually fits. Because stone doesn’t allow cheap tricks. It forces clarity. Whatever the artist wanted to say has to survive weight, texture, weather, time.
What I find even more intriguing is that this park isn’t frozen in one “opening day” moment. It’s been growing. Since 2005, an international stone sculpture symposium has been organized here every year—meaning the park expands gradually, like a living collection rather than a finished exhibit. I like that rhythm: each year leaving behind another solid, physical presence you can actually walk around.
And the coastal setting matters. Sources explicitly connect the experience to the Baltic seaside and to the “Energetikas” idea of looking for health and harmony in nature and art. That combination makes sense when you’re there: you don’t just look at sculptures, you move between them the way you’d move through dunes or a pine grove—slowly, half-listening to the wind, noticing how sunlight changes the surface of the stone.
If Palanga can feel energetic and busy, Šventoji often feels like a softer exhale. “Akmens amžius” fits perfectly into that mood: a place to wander without pressure, without needing to “understand everything,” and still leave feeling like something stayed with you. Maybe that’s the secret. Stone doesn’t try to impress. Stone just exists—and somehow, that’s exactly what makes it memorable.