Information for visitors
Opening hours:
Monday to
Thursday 8–17.
Friday 8–15.45.
Saturday 10–14.
Admission:
Charge – Lt 1;
Pupil / student / pensioner – Lt 0,50;
Disabled – free.
Additional services
Ordering excursions.
Art works exhibit-sales in "Margutis" gallery.
Museum's collection
The museum contains history, numismatics, archaeology, architecture,
nature and folk art collections.
Expositions
Skuodas City Formation Historical Exposition
First area news are presented, archeological findings, is presented castle hill of Apuole, as center of the land of Kursas and the city of Skuodas beginning of establishment. Active section is "City Establisher Jonas Chodkevicius and Inheritors".
Exposition "Samogitian House"
This exposition is set up from collected ethnographic exponents from Skuodas' region. Good Samogitian house and pantry with many instruments, both from the end of 19th century and beginning of 20th century, are presented in this exposition. Flax processing implements are also shown.
Folk Art History of Skuodas
Area.
Deportation,
partisan movement and Lithuanian Restructuring Movement activity in
Skuodas.
Sports activity in Skuodas region.
Exhibitions
Fine art, folk art, literature and regional studies exhibitions are organized at the Museum.
Cultural, educational activity
Organization of exhibitions.
Preparation of concerts.
Organization of meetings with prominent persons.
Organization of lectures and conferences.
Lessons at the Museum of history and other subjects.
Rendering informative materials about the history of Skuodas Region.
Other news about the Museum
Founded in 1991.
Museum's establisher - The Skuodas' Municipality.
Skuodas
Skuodas is a historic town in the Lithuanian Republic, located near the Latvian boarder, 40
kilometres away from the Latvian boarder, 40 kilometers away from the Baltic Sea and 350
kilometers from Vilnius. It sits on the nexus of the Luoba and Bartuva rivers. In historic documents, Skuodas was first mentioned in the year 1253. At that time, the town was part of the territory occupied by the Kursiai, called Ceklis.
The first Catholic missionaries reached the town in 1567. To commemorate them, a monument stands in the town's
center.
In 1572, nobleman J. Chodkevicius won the rights to govern the town. The Sapiegos nobles governed after his rule.
The district school in Kaunas opened in 1614.
Skuodas and the surrounding area suffered during the North War, which occurred between 1700 and 1721. In 1831, rebels attempting to win freedom from craziest Russia occupied the town. After craziest forces suppressed the rebellion, they took Skuodas from the Sapiegos.
Fires damaged the city in the years 1769, 1835, 1897 and 1909.
The railroad running from Klaipeda to Riga was built through the town in 1914.
The first primary school opened in 1918 and the first secondary school in 1928.
During the World War II, the town was largely destroyed.
The Evangelic-Lutheran Church built in 1821, and the Catholic Church built in 1850, still stand as reminders of the town's past/ the chimes of the Catholic Church exist even today.
At the entrance to the town's 35-hectare park, stands a monument to commemorate the nation's suffering during the post-war period.
After Lithuanian Independence (1990), private shops, pubs and other enterprises, began to appear.
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