 Address
1 Parko St, LT-90117, Plunge.
Tel./fax +370-448-52492, tel.: +370-448-52981, +370-448-57643.
E-mail:
Zd.muziejus@takas.lt
Opening times
15th May - 1st November: Wednesday to Sunday 10.00-18.00.
1st November - 15th May: Wednesday to Sunday 10.00-17.00.
Additional services
Organization of excursions to places of interest in Plunge area;
Letting out concert, conference hall;
Guest house in a wonderful park with 7 cascade ponds and windings of the river Babrungas.
Museum’s collection
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A collection of paintings and graphic works received as a gift from Lowland Lithuanians (Samogitians) living abroad
The collection comprises creative works by Juozas Bagdonas (USA), Jadvyga Paukstiene (USA), Adomas Galdikas (USA), Vytautas Ignas (USA), Telesforas Valius (Canada), Alfonsas Dargis (Germany), Vaclovas Ratas (Australia), Adomas Vingis (Australia), Pranas Gailius (France), and Magdalena Stankuniene (USA).
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A collection of paintings and graphic works of Lowland Lithuanian (Samogitian) painters living in Lithuania
The collection comprises creative works by Antanas Kristopaitis, Vytautas Valius, Donatas Valatka, Bronius Grusas, Filomena Linciute-Vaitiekuniene, Ignas Budrys, Svajunas Armonas, Vidmantas Pinkevicius, Aloyzas Stasiulevicius, Vija Tarabildiene, Milda Kulikauskiene, Vytautas Moncevicius, Algimantas Svazas, Valdas Simutis, Valerijonas Jucys, Dalia Matulaite, Arvydas Kazdailis.
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Prof. Ignas Koncius’ Archive
Personal things, iconography, letters, research works.
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Prof.Zenonas Ivinskis’ personal library and scientific archive, collection of rare printed matters
Books, periodicals.
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Iconographical and ethnograpical material on the history of Plunge land
Photographs, post-cards, working tools and household articles.
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Ancient folk art in 19th century
Sculptures crosses.
Expositions
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20th-Century
Professional Art (Painting, Graphic Arts, and Sculpture);
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20th-Century
Folk Art (Wood Carving);
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The
Historical and Urban Development of the Town of Plungë.
Administrative History.
Exhibitions
Personal and group exhibitions of professional art are constantly arranged in the museum. Every four years art exhibitions of the world Samogitians are held in the museum.
 Cultural, educational activity
Concerts of chamber music;
Scientific conferences;
Meetings with painters;
Anniversaries of famous people of the land.
Branch
Museum
Memorial Museum of the Writer Zemaite
Public
Museum
Kuliai Country-Side District Museum
Address: 1 Vaizganto St, Kuliai, Plunge region.
The museum was founded in 1959 on the initiative of Kuliai Secondary Schoolteachers in a former parsonage dating from 1790, in which the priest and writer Juozas Tumas Vaizgantas (1869-1933) lived from 1898 to 1901. It contains an exhibition about local history and ethnography.
Other news about the Museum
The museum was founded in 1994 in the former manor house of Duke Mykolas Oginskis (1849-1902), which was built in 1879.
A musical school established by M. Oginskis functioned in the estate in 1889-1892 and the artist and composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1875-1911) is known to have attended it. The manor house is surrounded by one of the biggest parks in Lithuania.
Founder of the museum - Municipality of Plunge region and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
Director of the museum - Alvydas Bakanauskas.
 Plunge
The name of the town Plungenai was registered in 1570. In 1792 Grand Duke Zygimantas Augustas gave the town Magdeburg rights and the coat of arms. In 1807 Russian Tsar Alexander and his retinue came to Plunge and stayed in the palace.
The name “Plunge” originated from a small river Plunge, the left tributary of the Babrungas River.
In the center of the town there is a square where the famous open markets and fairs took place before World War II.
For three centuries the estate belonged to different noblemen. The last owners were Duke Mykolas Oginskis and his wife Marija. They not only built the palace, one of the most beautiful of the 19th century, but also contributed to culture and education in the region.
The Oginskis family, from the 17th century, made a profound impact on the country’s political, economic and cultural life. Many great officers, statesmen and public figures were descended from this family. The family was also famous as music lovers and patrons of composers and performers.
Mykolas Oginskis had an orchestra and a music school to which talented children were invited to study. In 1888, at the age of 13, Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis was among the students there. After leaving school, Ciurlionis was offered a place at a musical institute in Warsaw and the duke granted him a scholarship.
Oginskis was highly respected for his efforts to educate ordinary people and support the arts and science.
A collection of portraits of the Oginskis family, consisting of over 100 paintings and sculptures, was formed at the palace. There was a room with old coins, a collection of archaeological finds, a large library famous for ancient scrolls. The Oginskis palace was s shrine to art, music and science.
For 80 years the building was used by the German and Russian armies. It also housed schools and technical colleges. Since 1993 exhibitions of paintings by Samogitian artists have been held there. The premises have been transferred to the Art Museum.
St. Jonas Krikstytojas church was built in Plunge in 1902-1903. A classical belfry is standing near the church. Brothers Zubovai, the counts, built it.
The oldest company in Plunge is flax SC “Linu audiniai”. J. Kucinskas opened it in 1913.
5-km Southwest from Plunge there is Gondingos Mound, the biggest one in Lithuania. In the 5th-7th century there was a wooden fortress on the mound. It is 112,4 m above sea level
high.
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