Creative workshop
The creative workshop of the Panemune Castle of the Vilnius Academy of Arts is located in the farmyard of the historic manor. The building complex, which has preserved authentic fragments from various different periods, houses studios for creative activities.

If needed, it is possible to stay here for the night.
Those who want to create in the creative workshop of VAA Panemune Castle are invited to apply by e-mail residence@panemunespilis.lt or by no. +370 614 29 706
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BUILDING COMPLEX
During the times of the Eperješ and Gelgaudas, this palivark functioned as a farmyard. After completing the 1922 land reform, in 1924-1925 it was decided to sell the Panemune manor by auction. There were many discussions about the sale of Panemune Castle – at first the commission did not want to sell it, later the buyer of the manor, priest Antanas Petraitis from Skirsnemunė, who lived in America, bought the castle for the offered price of 82 thousand litas. After negotiations and an appeal to the president by V. Semenavičius, the authorized pastor of Skirsnemunė, an agreement was reached that A. Petraitis would take over the castle: he would fix it, install an observatory, but one condition was valid – after his death, the castle would remain in the possession of the state (more precisely, the University of Lithuania).

Reverend Antanas Petraitis had great ambitions – while living in America, he raised money to establish a science and education center for young people in Lithuania. While in the USA, he bought a telescope that was supposed to be in the tower of Panemune Castle. Unfortunately, when the Americans found out that one of the most powerful telescopes was planned to be taken out of the country, it was detained at customs.
Priest Antanas Petraitis died in 1933 on April 25, leaving a will inviting Salesian monks to come to Lithuania and establish an educational center for young people. Salesians, settled in Panemune in 1934 autumn and the area was named Vytėnai. Priests Antanas Skeltys, Jonas Žemaitis and brothers Juozas Bilevičius, Feliksas Kudirka and Pranciškus Sakevičius arrived here. The Salesians became the center of the intellectual society not only of the surrounding area, but also of the whole of Lithuania – they educated artisans, taught children, and engaged in cultural and theological activities.
In 1948 the Salesians finally left Vytėnai and in 1949 a machine and tractor station was established in the monastery buildings. Since 1963 until 2013 – Vytėnai Primary School, which conducted pre-school, primary, basic and additional education programs in Lithuanian.