Address
5 Kestucio Square, LT-20114, Ukmerge.
Tel.: +370-340-63957.
Fax +370-340-63327.
E-mail: ukmuziejus@gmail.com
Opening times
Tuesday to Thursday 9.00-17.00.
Friday to Saturday 9.00-16.00.
Additional services
Booking of review and thematic excursions in the museum;
Booking of excursions through Ukmerge Region.
Museum’s collection
The museum contains archaeological, ethnographic, numismatics, iconography, folk art and nature items, and collections of documents and photographs.
The displays reflect the history of the land from the 5th to the end of the
21th century.
Exposition
Displays of archaeology, ethnography, numismatics, textile, art, iconography telling the history of the land from the primitive communal system to our days are exhibited in three halls of the museum.
A big part of the archaeological exposition consists of finds from Obeliai burial-ground dated back to the 5-15th centuries.
Ethnographic displays acquaint visitors with the household of olden times in Ukmerge region.
A part of the exposition is devoted to the First Grand Duke Gediminas Infantry Regiment, which was distributed in Ukmerge in 1923-1939 and played a significant role in the public life of the city.
Exhibitions
In the exhibition hall of the museum exhibitions presenting displays of iconography, ethnography, and folk art from the stock of the museum, from the collections of other museums of Lithuania are arranged, as well as exhibitions of artists.
Cultural, educational activity
Organization of cultural and other events;
Giving lessons on the history of the land;
Delivering lectures of the occasion of state holidays;
Branch
Museum
Vepriai Area Museum
Address: Vepriai, Ukmerge region.
Tel. +370-340-58084,
+370-670-27309.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9.00-17.00.
Lunch-hour 12.00-13.00.
Public Museums
Museum's history fragments
The museum was founded in 1945.
The start was made by private persons, most often painters, who gave their
works, and by collections accumulated by ethnographers.
The first head of the museum was a painter P. Tarabilda.
In 1944-1974 the museum functioned in a one-storeyed building in Kaunas
street.
In 1974-1980 the museum was moved from one building to another for several
times. In 1981 it was settled in the present premises in Kestutis
Street.
In 1985 a permanent exposition was opened in the museum.
Other news about the Museum
Founder of the Museum is Municipality of Ukmerge Region.
Ukmerge
Ukmerge, city in east central Lithuania, situated on the Sventoji River (right tributary of the Neris), 77-km northwest of Vilnius.
Old historic sources refer to the city as Vilkmerge (germ. Wilkenmerge, Wilkenberge). It is not known when the city originated, but it is held to be one of the oldest in Lithuania.
During the first half of the 13th century, Ukmerge castle became the target of attacks by Teutonic knights from Livonia and later from Prussia. Two major campaigns against it occurred in 1365 and 1378.
In 15th the town and region of Ukmerge were administered by viceroys often came from prestigious magnate families, such as the Radvilas', Giedraitis', Pac' and Sapiehas.
In the first half of the 16th century the town received a Magdeburg charter, as a result of which it became a trading center with regular markets and fairs. During Northern War the Swedes (1711) burned down the town.
In 1387 the church of SS. Peter and Paul was built, one of the first seven churches in Lithuania. Damaged by fire many times, it was replaced by the present-day brick structure in 1810-18.
During the period of Russian rule (1795-1915), Ukmerge was the center of a county that was assigned at first to the Vilnius province and later (1842) to the newly formed Kaunas province. The Russians planned to make Ukmerge the seat of the latter province. An important item of trade was flax. Towards the end of the 19th century commerce declined, since a railway connecting the Ukraine in the south with northern Lithuania and the Latvian seaport Liepaja was built to pass not through Ukmerge but through Jonava, 36 km to the southwest.
During the period of national independence (1918-1940) Ukmerge remained a county seat with appropriate municipal and county agencies.
After World War II, the city resumed economic activity on the foundations laid during the period of national independence.
