Address
3 Basanaviciaus St, LT-55171,
Jonava.
Tel.: +370-349-52335.
Fax +370-349-50030.
E-mail: muziejus.jonava@takas.lt
Opening
times
Tuesday to Friday 8.00-18.00.
Saturday 10.00-15.00.
Additional services
Reservation of excursions;
Reservation of educational hours, lectures;
Provision with historical information;
Making of video films about this land, its people and renting of them;
Photographing of exhibits;
Copying of documents;
Consulting;
Publishing services;
Exposing of works.
Museum's
collection
The museum contains archaeological finds,
numismatics items, documents, household articles and folk art.
Exposition
The historical section of the Museum’s
exposition displays archaeological finds, old documents, photographs and
albums, numismatics, old printings, the exiles’ personal things,
pictures, icons, sculpture, pendants, landmarks, badges, banners, war
trophies and many other interesting exhibits.
On September 25, 1999 the Section of History opened a new exposition
dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Museum and to the 250th
anniversary of the Jonava town foundation.
The section of ethnography deals with old working tools, household
articles, textiles, furniture, clothes, handicrafts, works of ethnic art
and not a few other ethnographic exhibits.
Exhibitions
Each month the Museum organizes movable
exhibitions of art, folk art, photography, exhibitions dedicated to memory
of the countrymen, poets, writers. The exhibitions of literature,
ethnographic works, documents also take place.
Cultural,
educational activity
Realization
of the project “Crafts and craftsmen of the Jonava Land”;
Lecturing to pupils and adults;
Organizing of expeditions;
Organizing of various evenings;
Making of video films.
Museum’s
departments
History Department;
Ethnography Department;
Department of Art.
Branch
Museums
The Samuleviciai Family Farmstead
Address: Prauliai village,
Silai, LT-55461, Jonava region.
Established in 1991, the museum displays material about the lives and
works of the painter Antanas Samuolis (1899-1942), the playwright
Raimundas Samulevicius (1937-1981) and the folk artist Stase Samuleviciene
(1906-1988).
Each year literary evenings of reminiscences take place in memory of R.
Samulevicius, the Aidas festival of amateur theaters.
The Museum is famous for celebration of Pentecost festivity organized in
this farmstead.
Petras Vaiciunas Birthplace
Address: Piliakalniai
village, Silai, LT-55457, Jonava region.
Founded in 1967 the museum commemorates Petras Vaiciunas (1890-1959),
the poet and playwright. Established in the poet’s birthplace the
exhibition contains the Vaiciunas family furniture, books, ex-libris,
pictures, and albums of photographs.
Each year, on July 11, to celebrate the birthday of this poet and
playwright, his family members, friends and guests come to the P.
Vaiciunas Home.
Center of Folk Art and Trade
Address: Dumsiai Prefecture, Sveicarija Village, Jonava
district.
Exposition is composed of the oldest region trades:
straw gardens, twigs weaving, carving, painting, ceramics, weaving, woven
sashes weaving, flax working up, spinning, hunting, fishing and others.
There are rooms of weaving, hunting and fishing, flax, bee-keeper,
herbalist and joiner‘s shop.
Exhibits were given by folk artists of Jonava region.
Center of folk art and trade was established in 2002.
History
and Art Museum in the Training Regiment of the Great Hetman of Jonusas
Radvila
Address: Rukla, Jonava Region.
Tel. +370-349-73255.
Working hours: Tuesday – Thursday
11.00–14.00.
The museum has been working since 2001. There are
exhibited archaeological finds, folk art, cloths, straw gardens, household
utensils, sacred images of Jonava district.
Public
Museums
Fragments
form Museum’s history
The museum was founded in 1989.
The roots of this museum lie in the exhibition “The old Jonava”
organized in 1987 in the building of the prewar gymnasium (now the Art
School).
In 1989 the then Jonava District Council decided to allot premises for the
museum - the house of B. Garmus, the exiled teacher.
In August 1, 1989 the Museum of Ethnography in Jonava was opened. Its
founder is R. Karaliuniene, the present director of the Land Museum.
When the building of the Museum passed to the exile’s inheritors, the
Museum moved into new premises in 1992 and was granted a status of state
museum as the Jonava Land Museum.
Other
news about the Museum
The founder of the Museum is the Jonava
Region Municipality.
The sponsors of the Museum: AB Achema, Jonavos duona, Berzu kompleksas,
Joneda etc.
The head of the Museum is Regina Karaliuniene.
Jonava
Jonava, town in central Lithuania, 30 km
Northeast Kaunas, on the Neris river below the mouth of the Sventoji.
The town was founded in the middle 18th century by Dominic Kossakowski (Kasakauskis), whose estate Skaruliai was located in the region. His son,
Bishop Joseph Kossakowski, brought the Marian Farthers here. In 1791-1793
the noted architect L. Stuoka-Gucevicius built a complete unit, consisting
of the stone church of St. James the Apostle, rectory and Monastery, after
designs. The monastery was closed down by the Russian administration after
the insurrection of 1831.
The town began to grow more rapidly in the
second half of the 19th century with the advent of a railroad and highway.
After World War I Jonava became Lithuania’s largest furniture
manufacturing center.
In the first days of the war between Soviet Union and Germany 70% of the
town’s buildings burned down.
After the war, under the second Soviet occupation, the town gradually was
recovered.
The photographs from the
funds of the Jonava Area Museum
