Address
89 Vytauto St, LT-77155,
Siauliai.
Tel. +370-41-524390.
Tel/fax +370-41-526933
Head of the Museum: +370-41-524390.
E-mail: ausros.muz@splius.lt
Web-Site: http://www.siauliai.aps.lt/ausra/
Opening times
Ausros Avenue Mansion
July – September:
Wednesday – Friday
10 a. m. – 6 p. m.;
Saturday –
Sunday 11 a. m. –
5 p. m.
October – June:
Tuesday – Friday 9
a. m. – 5 p. m.; Saturday 11
a. m. – 5 p. m.
Photography Museum
July – September:
Wednesday – Friday
10 a. m. – 6 p. m.;
Saturday –
Sunday 11 a. m. –
5 p. m.
October – June:
Tuesday – Friday 10
a. m. – 6 p. m.; Saturday 11
a. m. – 5 p. m.
Bicycle Museum
July –
September:
Wednesday – Friday
10 a. m. – 6 p. m.;
Saturday –
Sunday 11 a. m. –
5 p. m. October –
June:
Tuesday – Friday 10
a. m. – 6 p. m.; Saturday 11
a. m. – 5 p. m.
Radio and Television Museum
July –
September:
Wednesday – Friday
10 a. m. – 6 p. m.;
Saturday –
Sunday 11 a. m. –
5 p. m. October –
June:
Tuesday – Friday 10
a. m. – 6 p. m.; Saturday 11
a. m. – 5 p. m.
Museum
of Poet Jovaras
Monday – Thursday 10 a. m. –
5 p. m.; Friday 10 a. m. – 4
p. m.
Ch. Frenkelis Mansion
June – September:
Wednesday – Friday
10 a. m. – 6 p. m.;
Saturday –
Sunday 11 a. m. –
5 p. m.
October – May:
Tuesday – Friday 10
a. m. – 6 p. m.; Saturday 11
a. m. – 5 p. m.
Zaliukiai Windmill
Exposition is closed.
Admission
Ch. Frenkelis Mansion,
Ausros Avenue Mansion,
Bicycle Museum:
Charge – 6 Lt;
Schoolchildren,
students, soldiers of regular army,
pensioners – 3 Lt;
Guided tour – 40 Lt;
Guided tour for schoolchildren,
students, soldiers of regular army,
pensioners – 20
Lt.
Photography Museum:
Charge – 4 Lt;
Schoolchildren,
students, soldiers of regular army,
pensioners – 2 Lt;
Guided tour – 30 Lt;
Guided tour for schoolchildren,
students, soldiers of regular army,
pensioners – 15
Lt.
Radio and Television Museum,
Museum
of Poet Jovaras:
Charge – 2 Lt;
Schoolchildren,
students, soldiers of regular army,
pensioners – 1 Lt;
Guided tour – 30 Lt;
Guided tour for schoolchildren,
students, soldiers of regular army,
pensioners – 15 Lt.
Entry is free:
Child under 7,
inmates of children's home, disabled of
1-2nd groups, museum professionals,
ICOM members.
Additional
services
Booking of review excursions;
Booking of thematic excursions;
Booking of theatricalized excursions;
Ordering lectures;
Carrying out archaeological investigations to orders;
Carrying out archaeological expertise to orders;
Carrying out restoration works to orders;
Publishing services (setting up texts, editing, modeling);
Copying services (white-black and color);
Taking pictures of the displays of the museum.
 Museum's
collection
The collection of the museum consists of 194
983 displays (data as of January 1, 2001). Since 1923 displays of ethnography, archaeology, history are being accumulated in the museum.
Art collection has been accumulated since 1940.
Having appended the former public museums of Photography, Bicycles, Radio and Televisions museum to the "Ausra" museum the lather's volume and structure extended significantly.
Expositions
Exhibitions
Exhibitions from the collections of the museum are arranged here (exhibitions of art, history, ethnography, archaeology, literature, techniques).
In the Museum of Photography exhibitions of photographs are organized.
Exhibition halls of the museum are let out for exhibitions of folk-artists, regional ethnographers' etc.
Cultural,
educational activity
Organization of conferences;
Celebration of State holidays;
Representations of exhibitions;
Educational programs for children and school children; (a room for educational activity is arranged in the museum where children and schoolchildren under the guidance of the museum staff and folk artists learn to model pots, make Shrove-tide masks, mottle Easter eggs etc.
Theatricalized excursions: "In our grandparents' village cottage", "No nation without our language".
Museum's departments
Department of Archaeology;
Department of Ethnography;
Department of History;
Department of Art;
Department of Photography;
Department of Technical History.
Administrative Board
Center of Restoration;
Photolab;
Publishing Office;
Archive;
Library.
Branch Museum
The
Palace of Ch. Frenkel
D.
Poska Hollowed Trunks (Baubliai)
Address: Bijotai village, LT-75011, Silale Region. Tel.
+370-449-41484
Opening times: Monday – Friday 10
a. m. – 7 p. m.; Saturday, Sunday 11
a. m. – 3 p. m.
Admission:
Charge – 2 Lt;
Schoolchildren,
students, soldiers of regular army,
pensioners – 1 Lt;
Guided tour – 30 Lt;
Guided tour for schoolchildren,
students, soldiers of regular army,
pensioners – 15 Lt.
Entry is free:
child under 7,
inmates of children's home, disabled of
1-2nd groups, museum professionals,
ICOM members.
This is the first and the oldest public museum in Lithuania. Dionizas
Poska, a writer, linguist, historian and ethnographer (1765-1830) created it in 1812 in the hollow of an old oak-tree trunk. Dionizas Poska's writings and other materials reflecting his life and creation are on display in the old oak-trees.
Museum's history fragments
Siauliai "Ausros" Museum was founded on March 11, 1923, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of
the first Lithuanian newspaper "Ausra" ever published. The newspaper "Ausra" raised the Lithuania people from a long, hard, lethargic sleep, and we are thankful to the newspaper and its patrons for helping gain independence for Lithuania after 35 more years of occupation since the newspaper's inception…
The museum's founder and long time patron was a noted lawyer Peliksas Bugailiskis (1883-1965).
In 1928, Siauliai "Ausros" Museum with its 469 exhibits was taken over to the Ethnographic Society of Siauliai, which was established one year earlier.
About 1930, the museum began to organize ethnographic expeditions that collected approximately 70% of its exhibits, which consisted of an accumulation of ethnographic archives.
At the beginning of 1933, the museum was moved to its new premises at the school.
At P. Bugailiskis' initiative, publishing activity began at the museum. From 1930, the museum began to publish the "Siauliu metrastis" ("Chronicles of Siauliai"), a periodical of information, statistics and ethnography.
Siauliai "Ausros" Museum was well known in Lithuania. Siauliai "Ausros" Museum also entered into relations with various foreign museums. The museum's exhibits were displayed internationally in France, at the Trocadero Museum (1935), and at world exhibition in New York (1939).
In 1940 (under Soviet occupation) the museum became a part of the Ethnographic Institute of Academy of Sciences.
In 1942 (under Nazi occupation), the museum was transferred to the Board of Education Department of Higher Studies. As a result, its status was returned to that of a provincial ethnographic museum with admonished staff and budget.
After the World War II, a temporary office for the museum was established at P. Bugailiskis' home.
In 1950, a Lutheran Evangelical Church was given to the museum, where exhibits were returned from temporary warehouses and shelters.
In 1953, the Cultural Ministry of the Soviet Republic of Lithuania took over the museum.
In 1955, the museum received permission to use the Venclauskiai home at 89 Vytauto Street. There, in 1959, the first post-war museum exposition was opened. Later, in 1963, the museum reorganized the home, designating it as the place where all materials reflecting the history - from ancient times to 1940 - of Lithuania and, more specifically, the history of the region of Siauliai. In 1991, Danute and Grazbyle Venclauskaites gave their parents' home as a gift to Siauliai "Ausros" Museum.
Today the museum belongs to the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture.
Other
news about the Museum
In 1998, Siauliai "Ausros" Museum established the P. Bugailiskis Award, which is presented to students, ethnographers, museum professionals or other persons for exceptional work done in the areas of museology, ethnography, local-lore studies, culture; also for the works that give added meaning to P. Bugailiskis' own accomplishments.
Siauliai "Ausros" Museum is a very important cultural institution of northern Lithuania.
Founder of the museum - Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
Director of the museum - Raimundas Balza.
Photographs by Janina Siliunaite
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