Address
29 Vytauto St, LT-68300,
Marijampole.
Tel.: +370-343-50754.
E-mail:
markrmuziejus@gmail.com
Opening
times
Tuesday to Saturday 9.00-17.00.
Additional
services
Reservation of excursions;
Consulting of political prisoners and exiles.
Museum's
collection
The Museum accumulates and exposes
relicts, archival documents, photographs, reminiscences of people, arms
etc. from the Soviets’ deportation and partisan period.
Exposition
The exposition commemorates the Tauras district partisans, who
in post-war years were active in the Suduva area and the life of deportees
from Suduva.
Hall 1
It displays the history of the Tauras Command partisans,
photographs of Rev. A. Ilius and his brothers in arms. On the left is a
big map of the Tauras Command. An individual stand is dedicated for Juozas
Luksa, the legendary partisan.
Hall 2
It is dedicated for the Tauras
command corps “Iron Wolf”, “Vytautas”, “Zalgiris”.
Hall 3
On the top of exposition there
are portraits of partisans granted the honorable name of Freedom
Warrior-Hero and stands with photographs.
Hall 4
Here the exposition tells
stories about victims of genocide and their executors.
“Deportations. Prisons. Lagers.”
Exhibitions
The Museum arranges exhibitions of
photography, as well as those on postwar fights and deportations.
Cultural,
educational activity
Organizing of meetings;
Educational activities on themes of history.
Fragments
form Museum’s history
The museum was established on the
initiative of local political prisoners and deportees.
In 1993 the museum was opened to visitors. Aldona Vilutiene, the
political prisoner, became its manager.
The solemn opening was held on April 10, 1999.
Other
news about the Museum
The manager of the Museum is Justinas Sajauskas.
Marijampole
Marijampole, city in southwestern
Lithuania, 53 km Southwest of Kaunas on the Sesupe river. Under Soviet
rule, in 1953, its name was changed to Kapsukas.
Until the 16th century, almost the whole of southern Lithuania (Suduva)
was heavily forested with few inhabitants. The first inhabitants along the
Sesupe appeared in mid-16th century.
In 1717 Count Martin Butler built a chapel in Pasesupys hamlet and planned
out a village, which, in documents
dated 1736, was called Starapole. Near this village, between the Sesupe
and Javonis rivers, Countess Frances Butler established the Marian
Fathers, providing them a wooden church and monastery. Around these
structures the small town of Marijampole began to grow.
After the third partition of Lithuania and Poland in 1795, Suduva was
apportioned to German Prusia.
When the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) set up an autonomous Kingdom of
Poland under the Russian protectorate, Suduva, including Marijampole, was
incorporated into this kingdom. In 1831 the Kingdom of Poland was
suspended and from this time until World War I Suduva was governed by the
Russian governor general residing in Warsaw.
Marijampole, located in the center of Suduva, has played a notable role in
Lithuania’s cultural and national life.
Marijampole High School was the spawning ground for the leaders of the
national revival, church dignitaries, educators, artists, and writers,
including J. Basanavicius, P. Bucys, K. Grinius, M. Gustaitis, J.
Jablonskis, V. Kudirka, P. Masiotas, J. Matulaitis-Matulevicius, V.
Pietaris, P. Vaicaitis, and T. Zilinskas. The 1918 declaration of
Lithuanian independence was signed by six Marijampole High School
graduates, namely J. Basanavicius, S. Banaitis, P. Dovydaitis, P. Klimas,
J. Staugaitis, and J. Vailokaitis.
After the reestablishment of an independent Lithuania (1918) the city
expanded. Many modern public and private buildings were erected. A number
of new industrial enterprises were established, including a cotton textile
company, woolen cloth factory, sugar factory, milk-processing company,
seed-oil refinery, beverage workshops, stockyards, agricultural machinery
workshops, some brickyards, and clamshell workshops.
The town had two Catholic churches, 1 Protestant church, and one
synagogue.
During the first Soviet occupation of Lithuania (1940-1941) the economic
and cultural life of the city was paralyzed.
The city was destroyed during the second Soviet occupation in the summer
of 1944. Only in 1958 were the ruins finally cleared at the city
replanted.
Photographs from the
Museum's funds
