Address
9
Burbos St , LT-89218, Mazeikiai.
Tel. +370-443-26037.
Fax +370-443-25759.
E-mail: mazeikiumuziejus@kli.lt
Opening
times
Tuesday to Saturday 10.00–18.00.
Collection
The museum contains archaeological,
numismatic, and ethnographic exhibits, as well as documents, photographs
and applied arts, and Alfonsas Dargis Art Work collection.
Exposition
Mazeikiai History exposition (Mazeikiai);
Nature exposition (Mazeikiai);
Art exposition (Mazeikiai);
The Exposition of Manor Culture;
Writer Satrijos Ragana (Zidikai);
Sculptor Bronius Pundzius (Pievenai);
Art exposition in the Renavas Palace;
Memorial Exposition of Director Juozas Vaickus (Zastauciai).
Exhibitions
The museum arranges exhibitions of art,
folk art, literature and history.
Public
Museums
Museum in the M. Rackauskas secondary
school (Mazeikiai);
Museum in the Laizuva secondary school.
History
Mazeikiai Museum was established in
1928. It preserves and exhibits archaeology, ethnography and folklore
art collections of the Samogitian region.
Mazeikiai District Municipality is the founder of the museum.
The first founder of the museum and a long-term director was teacher
Stasys Lickunas.
Presently, the museum has permanent exhibits as well as temporal
exhibits of history and nature where visitors get to see the items
preserved at the museum. Approximately 10 exhibits of this kind are
opened annually.
The premises of the museum and its affiliates host different visiting
art exhibits as well as various creative camps, symposiums and
conferences of artists.
Director - Adele Cholodinskiene.
Opened in 1971 in the birthplace of sculptor Bronius Pundzius
(1907-1956), the exhibition is devoted to his life and creative work.
Branch
Museums
Renavas manor museum
Renavas village,
LT-89403, Mazeikiai district.
Tel. +370-443-43668.
Opening hours: Wednesday – Sunday 10.00–18.00.
19th
century mansion of Renavas estate reconstructed in 1990 invites visitors
to view the permanent exposition of its interiors and introduces the
Lithuanian court culture (interiors, furniture, paintings, etc.)
Ensemble of Renavas estate was built in the middle of 19th
century and dates back to the period of late Classicism. Initially it
was planned to build a residential estate. The assumed owner, who built
this mansion, was Anatas Renne. The mansion of Neo-renaissance style,
built in 1880, is a ranch house with two-storey pavilions. Two terraces
descend towards the river from the South of the mansion. The front
square, surrounded by different imported trees, lies on the North.
Facade of the mansion overlooks the landscape gardens. The mansion of
Renavas was passed through the male line of inheritance. Antanas Renne
did not have any children therefore he left all his fortune to Feliksas
Mielžznskis (1871–1910).
Laurynas Ivinskis worked as a teacher in this estate in 1869 and
collected material for the dictionary of botany. The mansion of Renavas
also housed the efforts to establish the silkworm farm before the World
War I.
The memorial museum of writer Satrijos
Ragana
Zidikai,
LT-89442, Mazeikiai district.
Tel. +370-443-43310.
Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10.00–18.00.
There is an affiliate of the museum in
Zidikai small town. It is a memorial museum of writer and philanthropist
Satrijos Ragana. The museum exhibits authentic possessions of the writer
and her closest people. It also presents the collected material about
her.
The memorial museum of
the sculptor Bronius
Pundzius
Pievenai village,
LT-89348, Mazeikiai district.
Opening hours: Wednesday – Sunday 9.00–18.00.
A memorial museum of sculptor Bronius
Pundzius waits for the visitors in a picturesque country house in
Pievenai. Opened in 1971 in the birthplace of sculptor Bronius
Pundzius (1907-1956), the exhibition is devoted to his life and creative
work.
Museum
of the Pharmacy in Vieksniai;
Museum
of the Aviation Pioneer Aleksandras Griskevicius.
Photos by Sigitas Varnas
