Address
Nasrenai village, Kulupenai comunity, LT-97330, Kretinga region.
Tel. +370-445-48722.
E-mail: vmvgmm@gmail.com
Information
for visitors
Opening times:
Wednesday-Sunday 9.00-17.00.
Contacts: Algirdas Cesna.
Admission charge:
3 Lt
Motiejus
Valancius (1801-1875)
Initiator of Lithuanian national revival. Rector of Varniai
Seminary (1845-1850), Bishop of Samogitia (1850). He founded parish
schools which taught in Lithuanian, and encouraged priests to perform
educational work, to write books, and to collect data on folklore.
Motiejus Valancius organized a sobriety movement. After the imposition of
a ban on Lithuanian writings, he took care of the publication of
Lithuanian writings in Prussia and their distribution in Lithuania. He
founded an organisation of the supporters of press and bookcarriers.
Motiejus Valancius wrote about 70 educational narratives and stories,
which provide information on the rural life, material and spiritual
culture of Samogitia and Upland Lithuania in the middle of XIX c., and
some data on the history and geography of Lithuania. Those works arouse
the national and civic consciousness. His historical book Zemaiciu
vyskupyste (The Diocese of Samogitia, 1848) was the first scientific
work published in Lithuanian which describes the development of the
Diocese in the XV-XVI c. He was Professor at Vilnius Clerical Academy in
1840-1842, and in 1842-1845 - at St. Petersburg Clerical Academy.
Photos from the Archive of
the Museum
