The Mausoleum of Dukes Radvilas is a branch of Kėdainiai Regional Museum. Installed within the Evangelical Reformed Church, it houses 6 unique 17th c. sarcophagi of Dukes Radziwills: Krzysztof I 'the Thunderbolt' (1547–1603), Janusz (1612–1655), Mikolaj (1610–1611), Jerzy (1616-1617), Stefan (1624–1624) and Elzbieta (1622–1626) classified as national art monuments. This mausoleum is the first restored the 17th c. tomb of the GDL noblemen in Lithuania.
The sarcophagi with remains of the dukes Radziwills family were moved to Kėdainiai Evangelical Reformed Church from Vyžuonos about 1666–1668, after the local church was converted to the Catholic church. From the second half of the 17th c. Kėdainiai became the religious centre of the Evangelical Reformed believers in the whole GDL and the Church built by the Radziwills became the family's necropolis. The sarcophagi are artworks of late Renaissance and early Baroque.
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