Address
2 Pr. Puskunigio St., LT-59277,
Skriaudziai, Prienai district.
Telephone nr. +370-644-61951.
The museum is 15 kilometres away from Garliava in the direction of
Marijampole.
Information
for Visitors
A
visit to the exposition can be arranged by making an appointment by telephone
+370-644-61951.
Calendar
Collection
On January 1st, 2004 the Calendar
exposition stored about 4000 of exhibits of varied size and purpose from as
many as 58 countries of the world. The total number of different calendar
titles amounted to almost 200.
The calendar collection of Skriaudziai Musem of Household Life is
symbolically dubbed Skriaudziai Calendar Museum.
Exposition
The calendar exposition was
founded on 15/06/1997, and displayed in six halls of Skriaudziai Cultural
Centre.
For the reason of space, instead of the actual 4000 calendars accumulated
in the collection, `only` 2.000 of them are exhibited. The oldest
calendars, published in Polish and Russian, date to the years 1848, 1849
and 1864. They were donated by the granddaughter of a book-spreader Nijole
Lietuvininkaite, a resident of Kaunas. Tthe largest (80x140 cm) calendar
was produced in Germany. The smallest (3-5 cm) calendar was produced in
Lithuania. The oldest
Lithuanian calendar was published in 1904. It is called the Calendar of
Workers.
The museum has accumulated 10 calendars, each of which there is only
one copy in the world. One of these calendars was created by the pupils of
Skriaudziai School - The Calendar of the Lent of 1999.
The Calendar of Centuries could be used for the longest period of
time, from the 18th to 21st century. This calendar was made by a Kaunas
resident of Greek origin Konstantinas Mesaksudi (born in 1908 in Ukraine).
K. Mesaksudi is an electrical engineer. He received his education in
Germany, after that worked in France, Switzerland, and later moved to
Kaunas (in 1932), where he has been living up to the present. K. Mesaksudi
has supplied the museum with many other calendars created by him - for
instance, the calendar of ancient Egypt, ancient Chinese cyclic calendar,
the calendars of ancient Rome, ancient May Indians and others.
An
extremely rare museum`s exhibit is the calendar of the Baltic Road,
published in 1990. Also, the exposition presents the calendar that is
being issued to all the U.S embassies of the world. This calendar has been
presented by the employees of the U.S. embassy in Lithuania.
Many calendars come to the museum via post service from different places
of Lithuania.
Traditionally, in the beginning of the year a considerable number of new
exhibits is contributed to the museum by the most modern printing-house in
Western Lithuania - that of Saulius Jokuzis, operating in Klaipeda.
Fragments
from the Museum`s History
In 1997, during the organization
of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of Skriaudziai Household Life
Museum`s establishment, a brand-new and more exciting exhibition has been
planned. The anniversary exhibition displayed 336 calendars with 30 titles
from 8 countries. In this way the displayed collection turned to be the
commencement of a new museum.
The photographer - Pijus
Brazauskas
