Address
4 Inturkes St, LT-33141, Moletai.
Tel.: +370-383-51138, +370-383-51077.
E-mail: muziejus@moletai.lt
Web site address: http://muziejus.moletai.lt
Opening times
Tuesday to Saturday 9.00-17.00.
Admission
Adults - 2 Litas.
Pupils and pensioners - 1 Litas.
Additional services
There is art showroom in the
museum.
Museum’s collection
It houses collections of
numismatics, photographs, black pottery, and ethnographic artefacts
(including late 19th-early 20th century cattlebreeding, fishing and bee-keeping
implements.
Exposition
The museum’s exposition provides
a large historical-cultural review of the area.
The exposition familiarizes with the archaeological past, first trades and
crafts of people from the Moletai area.
Rich is the collection of metrology exposing instruments for measuring of
time, volume etc.
Former educational reforms, cultural and political events are in large
reflected by photos, magazines, badges, medals, pictures and numismatic
exhibits.
The exposition is embellished by gifts received by the Museum (two art
collections from Transatlantic).
The gallery of portraits of distinguished people from Moletai completes
the exposition
Exhibitions
The museum arranges
exhibitions of art, folk art, literature, local lore, photography and from
the museum’s funds.
Cultural, educational activity
Organizing of educatuional
programs;
Organizing of excursions.
Branch Museums
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Mindunai Fishing Museum;
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Naujasodis Museum;
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Picture Gallery
and Glass Museum
Address: 25 Alauso St, LT-33303, Balninkai, Moletai Region.
Tel. +370-383-44225.
There are exhibited glass wares of glass factories and works that
were working at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries in Lithuania. Also
there are shown breakage of glass wares and survivals of fire-resistant
materials from glass manufactories in 17th-19th centuries. Mostly there
presented glass wares that have been made since 1972, when the production
of graceful glass ware was restored.
This collection of glass wares (367 glass wares) was given by technologist
Kazys Strazdas in September 10, 2001.
The museum was founded in November 8, 2002
Founders of the museum are Kazys and Jovita Emilija Strazdai.
At the Picture gallery there exposed paintings received as a gift by
Vladas Miskinis (1910-1999) a teacher of Balninkai Secondary School. In
his paintings it is often shown famous Lithuanian people, views of native
town, historical monuments, castles, and mounds.
In 2000 Onute Pusvakyte gave 40 works of graphic art, which are also
exposed.
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Ethnographic Farmstead
and Observation Post of Celestial Bodies
Public Museums
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Naujasodis Library Local
Lore Museum
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Dubingiai Local Lore Museum, Tel. +370-383-47110.
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A. Jarosevicius School Local Lore
Museum, Tel. +370-383-55117.
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Monastery Museum in Videniskes, Tel. +370-383-43632.
Other news about the Museum
The museum was founded in 1991.
Founder of the museum is Council of Moletai Region.
Museum’s director - Viktorija Kazliene.
Moletai
Region
People lived in Moletai already
before Christ, but in historical sources this settlement is mentioned for
the first time in 1387.
Moletai was ruled by clergymen more than four centuries. A settlement
began to expand only after the third division between Lithuania and
Poland, and in the second half of the XIX century it became a centre of a
rural municipality. Now about 7 000 residents live in Moletai.
Moletai district occupies 1 374 square km area. 743 square km of them are
occupied by forests, lakes, bogs and hills. The area is ecologically clean
since there is no contaminating industry around.
A landscape is very picturesque. There are more than 300 lakes, huge
forests, high hills, the deepest Malkestaiciai lake (54 m) and the longest
in Lithuania Asveja lake (30 km).
The most significant historical cultural monuments are: Baltadvaris
defense fortifications (XVI century), the Dubingiai tavern (XIX century),
the astronomic observatory and the ethnocosmological centre.
