vilnius Area Ethnography Museum

Contacts
Address: Švenčionių g. 14, LT-15168, Nemenčinė, Vilniaus rajonas.
Tel. (+370 ~ 5) 237 13 82. Mob. 8 678 37 530.
Fax (+370 ~ 5) 237 14 36.
El. p. mew.vkem@gmail.com

Information for Visitor

Opening hours:
Wednesday to Saturday 11–17,
Sunday 11–15.

Exposition
The Exposition tells about the history, household, traditions and trades of people of Vilnius area.

Exhibitions
Folk art, painting and historical exhibitions are arranged in the museum.

Branch Museums

Granary-Museum of Rural Life and Lithuanian Palms of Čekoniškės
Address: Čekoniškių kaimas, Zujūnų seniūnija, Vilniaus rajonas.
Mob. tel. (+370 678) 37 529.
E-mail: janinanorkuniene@yahoo.com
Head of the Museum – Janina Norkūnienė.
Opening hours: Wednesday to Sunday 12–16.
Museum introduces traditions, mores and culture of Vilnius region. The exposition presents various types of traditional Lithuanian palms and domestic implements, specific to this area. Palms from Vilnius region are made using colourful dried flowers secured in various ways around the dry stick and arranged into a tight vertical wreath.
Granary-museum is established January 26, 2000.

Museum of Vladislovas Sirokomlė
Address: Bareikiškių kaimas, Rukainių seniūnija, Vilniaus rajonas.
Tel. (+370 ~ 5) 243 64 02.
Poet Vladislovas Sirokomlė (Liudvikas Vladislovas Pranciškus Sirokomlė) was born on 29 of Semptember, 1823 in Smolsky Village (Belarus). At first he learned in Nesviz, later moved to Novahrudak.
1853 Vl. Sirokomlė came to Vilnius and settled in Vokiečių (German) Street.
His home soon became a literary salon, visited by such guests as E. Odinec, M. Malinovski, E. Tiszkiewicz, St. Moniuszka. In 1853 he bought the Bareikiškės estate near Vilnius and lived there until 1860. The Poet died in 1862 and was buried in Rasos Cemetery.
Vl. Sirokomlė in Polish language wrote poetry, epic and publicistic essays, travels about the nature of Lithuania, its cultural monuments and people, works of Polish literature and history, translated Renaissance poetry from Latin to Polish. 
The best works: “Thoughts of the Regent Sikorski”, “Memories from Nesviz”, “Fashionable Wife”, “Village Politicians”, “On the Glory of the God and the King”, “The Old Gate”, Three Daughters of Lithuania”, “Nemunas: from the Source to the Mouth of It”, “Trips around Lithuania starting from Vilnius”.
The Museum was founded in 1973 in the house where the poet Vladislovas Sirokomlė used to live in 1853–1860. Poet’s books, portraits, furniture and other personal things can be seen on the exposition.
In Bareikiškės during every spring the festival “Spring of Poetry“ is being organized.