The Household Museum of Skriaudžiai

Contacts
Address: Skriaudžiai, Veiverių seniūnija, LT-59277, Prienų rajonas.
Mob. tel. (+370 644) 61 951.
Contact person – Jovita Pauliukevičiūtė.

Information for Visitor

Opening hours:
visits by arrangements.

Additional services
Reservation of excursions (groups of up to 20 people are preferred).

Collection
The collection is composed of household articles used by the Lithuanians mostly in the Suvalkija region in the18th, 19th, 20th centuries, including bedding, textiles, smith’s tools, kitchen and farming articles, as well as more than 6 000 calendars of various size and purpose, of almost 200 names, collected from 50 countries of the world.

Exposition

Household exposition
It is laid out in four buildings, which belong to the same ensemble enclosed by a wooden fence. The exposition contains the following buildings:
a) The girls’ barn, a building of 19th century.
b) The smithy, a building of 20th century, with such exhibits as a wooden plough, 200 years old, various smith’s tools and drills, a 70-year treadle table for wood turning etc.;
c) The granary, built in 1921. The exterior of the granary is hung with old crosses and fences from deteriorated graves. Indoors there is an exposition on kanklės-players of Skriaudžiai (kanklės, a kind of zither, is a Lithuanian string musical instrument), as well as various handicrafts: textiles, national sashes, and small wooden articles.
Another exposition is dedicated for political prisoners, partisans, and exiles.
There are photos of all Lithuania’s presidents with biographies.
d) The chimney-less dwelling (dūminė)
It is a dwelling of the 18th century where are exposed household articles, spinning- and weaving-looms.

Exposition of calendars
Address: Pr. Puskunigio g. 2, LT-59277, Skriaudžiai, Prienų rajonas.
Mob. tel. (+370 682) 39 334.
E-mail: pijusmyra@takas.lt 
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Exhibitions
The Museum arranges exhibitions of ethnography, photography.
In spring the Museum is going to open an exhibition of dowry chests and coffers.

Cultural, educational activity
Celebration of Shrove Tuesdays and Saint-John’s Days.

Other news
The Museum was established in 1967.
The establisher of the Museum is the Prienai District Municipality.

Photos by Pijus Brazauskas