Kedainiai Area Museum

Address
19 Didzioji St, LT-57255, Kedainiai.
Tel.: +370-347-51330, +370-347-53685, +370-347-54469.
E-mail: muziejus@kedainiai.omnitel.net
Web-site: http://www.kedainiumuziejus.lt/

Opening times
Tuesday to Saturday 9.00-17.00.

Additional services
Reservations for excursions around Kedainiai and surrounding area;
Conduct of specialized and integrated classes.

Museum's collection
The museum's collection consists of about 30 000 exhibits.
The museum houses a collection of archaeological finds, numismatic items, manuscripts, historical and ethnographic articles, and works of art and photographs.

Expositions

Archaeology of Kedainiai region;

Archaeology of Kedainiai;

Kedainiai in 16^th – 18^th century;

Kedainiai in 19^th century;

Household of manors;

Room with furniture of horns;

The little sacral sculpture;

Cross hall of V. Svirskis;

Cultivation;

Agriculture;

Cell of monk;

Struggle of independence 1918–1919;

Kedainiai in interwar period;

Occupation of Soviet Union and Germany;

National minorities of Kedainiai;

Famous people of region;

Deportation. Partisans. Victims of the 13^th of January.

Exhibitions
Fine art, national art, and other kinds of exhibitions are organized and funded by the Museum.

Cultural, educational activity
The Museum has a tour guide;
Integrated exhibitions take place;
Educational projects are accomplished.

Branch Museum

The Mausoleum of Dukes Radvilos in Evangelic Reformer Church
Address: 1 Senoji St, LT-57247, Kedainiai.
Tel.: +370-347-53685, +370-347-61247.
Visits by arrangement.
Unique art monuments of 17th century and the dukes Radvila sarcophagi are exhibited in the Mausoleum.

Juozas Paukstelis Museum
Address: 14 Vyduno St, LT-57177, Kedainiai.
Tel. +370-347-53934.
Opening times: Monday to Friday 9.00-16.00.
The museum was established in 1988 in the home where writer Juozas Paukstelis (1899-1981) lived from 1938. It contains manuscripts, letters, documents, personal possessions belonging to the writer, and materials on his pupils - the poet Henrikas Nagys (1920-1996), literary critic Jonas Sereikis (1921-1974), and the writer Medardas Bavarskas.

Multicultural Centre
(former The Small Synagogue)
Address: Senoji rinka 12, Kedainiai.
Tel. +370-347-51778.
Opening times: Tuesday to Saturday 10.00–17.00.
The Museum is fitted for vistors with mobility impairments.
Multicultural Centre of Kedainiai Regional Museum was established in the building of The Small Synagogue, built in 19th century. Presently it hosts various cultural events, concerts, exhibitions, also conferences and seminars. The exposition about Kėdainiai Jewish community and Holocaust is being prepared.

Vytautas Ulevicius museum of wooden sculptures
Address: J. Basanavičiaus g. 36, LT-57177, Kedainiai.
Opening times: Monday to Friday ais 10.00–14.00.
The entrance is free of charge.
The museum was established in 2004 in premises of local government of Kedainiai region. Exposition contains more than 50 works of art made by Vytautas Ulevicius who was born in 1934.

Museum's history fragments
The Kedainiai Area Museum was established on the basis of the ethnography museum in 1921 by the initiative of a librarian Jadvyga Laucyte and is one of the oldest museums in Lithuania.
The Museum's collections were damaged during the World War II, especially in Soviet times, when the registration of exhibits was conducted poorly.

Other news about the Museum
The founder of the museum is the Council of Kedainiai Region.
The Director of the Museum is Rimantas Zirgulis.

Photographs taken from informational publication "Kedainiai region" (1998)