It was the first museum for the blind in the Baltic States and one of the first in Eastern Europe.

[2] Objects include " audio equipment used for reading publications...samples of products made by companies staffed by the blind, and literary works written by blind authors," as well as "models of the Vilnius Cathedral and the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania".

[1][3] The museum, located in the catacombs underneath St. Michael the Archangel Church, was created during the course of an international exchange project, "Catacombs of the 21st Century", organized by students at the Kaunas University of Technology, under the supervision of the sculptor Robertas Antinis.

[4] Students from Greece, Turkey, and Hungary also participated in the process.

[5] Due to its sole reliance on the parish for access, the museum was frequently inaccessible during the late 2000s.