Opening times
1 May – 1 October: Tuesday to Saturday
9.00–17.00.
Museum's collection
The collection of the museum comprises research works, household articles of
Adomas Hrebnickis (1858-1941), a pomologist and professor of the Forestry Institute of Petersburg, paintings painted by his daughter and other things connected with the professor's life and work.
Exposition
The exposition staged in his memory shows the professor's personal possessions, his working tools, documents, publications, photographs, and pictures painted by his daughter Marija
Hrebnicka. A monument to A. Hrebnickis (designed by sculptor Leonas
Zuklys) was erected in the reconstructed orchard.
Exhibitions
Art and literature exhibitions are arranged in the museum.
Professor Adomas Hrebnickis
A. Hrebnicki (1857-1941), pomologist, born near Lepel', Belorussia.
Graduating from the St. Petersburg Institute of Forestry in 1883, he remained there as an assistant; from 1892-1922 he taught horticulture, and in 1920 he was made professor.
Hrebnicki planted a 14 ha orchard in Staniskiai, near Dukstas, in 1890-1904, where from 1922 he took up permanent residence. In the orchard he cultivated 1 200 fruit trees, comprising apples, pears, plums and two
varieties of cherries. Hrebnicki studied fruit trees found in Lithuania, their species, fertility, and resistance to cold; he discovered and propagated varieties until then unknown in pomology, but which grew in Lithuania.
From 1939-1941 he was consultant to the Chamber of Agriculture.
Hrebnicki published over 100 articles in scientific journals and encyclopedias about Lithuanian orchards, their cultivation, fruit ripening; he wrote the widely popular work The Care of a Fruit Orchard (1892, 7th ed. 1936) and edited the book Catalogue of Fruits (1903-1906).
Other news about the Museum
The museum was founded in 1961 in the former farmstead of
Adomas
Hrebnickis (1858-1941), a pomologist and professor of the Petersburg Forestry Institute. In 1898 he built himself a house there, and established a pomological orchard containing 1 197 fruit trees. His best known work is "The Fruit Atlas", which he illustrated himself.
Founder of the museum - Ministry of Agriculture.
Head of the museum - Renata Velickiene.
Ignalina Region
People lived in Ignalina environs already in the Stone Age. Relics of settlements of those ancient times are discovered all over the territory of the region. Our ancestors courageously defended their native land against aggressions of the Sword Bearers Order. Not only legends and stories witness about those times, but burial mounds, sites of ancient settlements and other defensive fortifications tell much about this epoch, as well. 1812 Napoleon war with Russia didn't pass round this district. Not far from Dukstas, at the site of an ancient settlement on a shore of Samanis Lake, in 1831 rebels led by Emilija Plioteryte.
With centuries flying the state frontier of Lithuania passed several times through Ignalina Land. In 1861 since the railway St. Petersburg-Warsaw has been built Ignalina city was enlarged. In 1951 Ignalina became an administrative center Ignalina region area is equal to 150 516 hectares. 57 thousand people live here. There are three cities in the region: Visaginas, Ignalina, and Dukstas.
Ignalina region is like little Lithuania. Only the Baltic Sea shore is absent here. There are both continental dunes blown by wind and lowlands resembling the delta of the Nemunas during a spring flood-time. This land is attractive by its hills, thousands various hill-ridges, among them shady ravines and hollows with hundred lakes. The biggest Lithuanian lake Druksiai is stretched here. Our two dense great forests: Labanoras and Azvinciai with nearby rustling Mincia forests stretch in outlying districts of Ignalina. The outline of this region is very interesting: from the North to the South it is stretched about 50 km long, and from the West to the East it is extended more than 60 km long.
In 1971 near the biggest in Lithuania Druksiai Lake a construction of one of the most powerful atomic power stations in the world started. A settlement of construction workers and power-engineering workers, Visaginas, was founded 15 km far from the power station.
Everybody feels fascinated by Lithuanian ancient architectural monuments - Kukuteliai, Mecioniai, Didziasalis street villages, Gaveikenai, Ginuciai, Stripeikiai water mills, Melagenai architectural ensemble of religious buildings, a church and a bell tower of Paluse village (XVII century) and other.
Photos from the museum's archive
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