The Klaipėda gasworks was built in 1860–1861 to a design by J. Hartmann, director of the Königsberg gasworks. The gas company was founded as early as 1857, and in November 1861 the gas holders began operating, reflecting the modernisation of Klaipėda's urban economy from around the mid-19th century. Of the 28 buildings of the works, three survive: a two-storey red-brick administrative building with a flat for the director, and two octagonal red-brick gas holders. At first the works produced gas only for lighting, later also for stoves and industrial enterprises. Coke, tar, ammonia water, benzol and seltzer were produced as well. After the war flats were fitted into the gasworks buildings, and people lived here until 1981. In 2024 a car museum founded by businessman Augustinas Jankevičius opened in one of the gas holders, showing cars made before 1920.