aušros alėjos palace

Contacts
Address: Aušros al. 47, LT-76301, Šiauliai. 
Tel. (+370 ~ 41) 52 43 91.
E-mail: etnografija@ausrosmuziejus.lt, archeologija@ausrosmuziejus.lt
http://www.ausrosmuziejus.lt/

Information for Visitor

Opening hours:
July – September:
Wednesday – Friday 10–18; Saturday – Sunday 11–17.
October – June:
Tuesday – Friday 9–17;  Saturday 11–17.

Admission:
adults – 6 Lt;
schoolchildren, students, soldiers of regular army, pensioners – 3 Lt.

Entry is free:
child under 7, inmates of children's home, disabled of 1-2nd groups, museum professionals, ICOM members. 

Guided tour:
charge – 40 Lt;
schoolchildren, students, soldiers of regular army, pensioners – 20 Lt.

Exposition
The exposition was opened in 1978. It consists of three parts.
In the archeological section the museum’s exposition depicts the history of Northern Lithuania and the environs of Siauliai since the ancient times and tells us about the material culture of these regions from the very settlement of a primitive society until the 14th century. Among the exhibits are work instruments, weapons, ornamentations, trade objects, archeological treasures, etc. The history of Siauliai town and its economy during the 16th-19th centuries is illustrated by various maps, weapons, money of the times, and documents of the noblemen of Siauliai ‘pavietas’ (a sort of a municipal institution in the 18th-19th c. Lithuania) and their ‘Seimelis’ (a municipal governmental body of noblemen). The daily house life of the town and the estate is also on display in the palace.
In the section of the Independence period a lot of documents, photographs, orders, medals, and flags are exhibited. The visitors are given a broad account of Lithuania’s political events, Siauliai industry, culture and daily house life at the present. The exposition’s part ‘The repressions of 1941–1953 period’ is about the postwar years in Lithuania, the part ‘The Revival Movement’ is about the events of the latter years in the country.
The exposition of the ethnography section presents to the visitors the daily house life, trade businesses, ceremonies, and calendar feasts of the peasants of Samogitia and Siauliai environs (the 18th - the 1st part of the 20th century). In 2001 the exposition 'The Daily House Life and Existence of Northern Lithuania Peasants' was organized.