New Šiauliai Aušros Museum’s service – universal ticket

2011-09-16

We are happy to present you universal ticket for attractive price - a new service of Šiauliai Aušros Museum, created for convenience of visitors, especially tourists, the guests of the town.
Universal ticket is very popular in many countries, as it provides an eccelent opportunity to visit more exclusive, noteworthy objects for lower price. Considering the needs of potential our visitors, Aušros Museum offers this possibility.
Universal ticket allows you to visit even six divisions of Šiauliai Aušros Museum: Žaliūkių Village Miller's Farmstead - a new space, devoted to ethnoculture, amusement and recreation, that opened its doors just this spring after restauration and reconstruction works were completed, and the most important its part - the restored Žaliūkių Windmill; Ch. Frenkelis Villa - the only in Šiauliai and one of a few in Lithuania buildings of the Modern style architecture from the beginning of the 20th century; it always pleasantly surprises the visitors with its authentic interiors and stylized expositions; Bicycle Museum - the only museum of this type in Lithuania, illustrating the evolution of bicycle since its invention until nowadays; Radio and Television Museum presents the exhibits, that reveal the development of sound and view reproduction devices, telecommunications equipment, showing principles of their operating and potential; Aušros Avenue Mansion with interesting ethnographical and archaeological expositions and Poet Jovaras' House with recently created stylized space of Lithuanian book-store during the Interwar period and recreated poet Jovaras' living atmosphere.
For visitor's convenience, there is given a map straightly on the universal ticket, with all six Aušros Museum's expositions including their addresses.

Aušros Museum's universal ticket is available starting with May 24, 2011, in all Museum's divisions and Šiauliai tourism information centre (Vilniaus St. 213, Šiauliai).
 
Adult ticket - 15 Lt; Child ticket - 8 Lt; Ticket is valid 3 days since purchasing. Ticket is not valid for guiding tour, photo and shooting services.

Chaimas Frenkelis Villa

Vilniaus Street 74, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 43 36 80, +370 41 52 43 89,
E-mail info@ausrosmuziejus.lt, www.ausrosmuziejus.lt
Opening hours: Tue-Fri 10 am-6 pm; Sat-Sun 11 am-5 pm
Ticket adult - 6 Lt; privileged - 3 Lt 

Guided tour (please, order beforehand) - 40 Lt
Audioguided tour in English - 30 Lt
Education (please, order beforehand) - 6 Lt

Ch. Frenkelis Villa is the only architectural monument in Šiauliai and one of a few in Lithuania built in the Art Noveau (Modern, Secession, Jugend) style. Interiors of the building distinguish themselves with ornate wooden decorations, stuccoworks, imposing fragments of frescos. One part of the exposition "A Provincial Manor and a Town" creates the stylized environment of estate. There are 4 galleries (Eastern Art Gallery, the Kings Gallery, the Landowners' Gallery and The Gallery) and 4 halls, devoted to interiors (The Library, The Yellow and The Green Salons, and The Dining Room). The other part - "The Provincial Town" - introduces retro cinema hall "Kapitol", reconstructed fragment of the street and a shop from the 3-4 decades of the 19th c. The exposition "Jewish Heritage in Šiauliai: the Merchants Frenkelis" is devoted to the owner of the Villa, prominent manufacturer Ch. Frenkelis. 

 

Aušros Avenue Mansion

Aušros Av. 47, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 43 36 80, 52 43 91,
E-mail info@ausrosmuziejus.lt,  www.ausrosmuziejus.lt
Opening hours: 
July–September: Tue–Fri 9 am–5 pm; Sat 11 am–5 pm.
Ticket / guided tour (please, order beforehand): adult – 4 Lt / 30 Lt; privileged – 2 Lt / 15 Lt
Education (please, order beforehand) - 6 Lt

Aušros Avenue Mansion‘s archaeological exposition "The Past of Šiauliai Area from the Ancient Times till the 17th c." vividly illustrates the history and material culture of Northern Lithuania and Šiauliai Area, starting with the Stone Age and up until the 17th c., displaying work tools, weapons, ornaments, trade objects, hoards of archaeological finds, and reconstructions. The ethnography exposition "Peasants' Mode of Life and their Subsistence at the End of the 19th - Beginning of the 20th c." reflects peasants' mode of life, their occupations, rituals, calendar feasts at Samogitia (Žemaitija) and Šiauliai Area in 18th - 20th centuries

Bicycle Museum

  Vilniaus Street 139, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 43 36 80, +370 41 52 43 95,
E-mail info@ausrosmuziejus.lt, www.ausrosmuziejus.lt
Opening hours: Tue–Fri 10 am–6 pm; Sat 11 am–5 pm.
Ticket / guided tour (please, order beforehand): adult – 6 Lt / 40 Lt; privileged – 3 Lt / 20 Lt
Audioguided tour in English - 30 Lt
Education (please, order beforehand) - 6 Lt

Radio and Television Museum

Vilniaus Street 174, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 43 36 80, +370 41 52 43 99
E-mail info@ausrosmuziejus.lt,  www.ausrosmuziejus.lt
Opening hours: Tue–Fri 10 am–6 pm; Sat 11 am–5 pm.
Ticket / guided tour: adult – 2 Lt / 30 Lt; privileged – 1 Lt / 15 Lt

Radio and Television Museum‘s exposition "Sound and View Recall Devices" acquaints with development of mechanical sound recall devices, telegraph, radio, and television in Lithuania. Unique musical boxes, gramophones, record-players, phonograph (the first sound recording and recalling device), made at the end of 19th - beginning of 20th c., radio receivers, produced in Lithuania from 1922 to 1980, TV sets, manufactured in Lithuania and other countries since 1949, are here on display. Short telegraph history and principles of telegraph apparatuses' operating is presented here as well.

Photography Museum

Venclauskiai house

Vytauto street 89, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 524 392
Opening hours: I–V 8 a. m. – 5 p. m.; V 8 a.m. – 3:45 p. m.
The house of Stanislava and Kazimieras Venclauskiai was built between 1925 and 1927. In1955, the house was given to Siauliai Ausros Museum, where the first after-war exposition of the museum and later - exposition, depicting various kinds of arts was opened.
In 1995, the S. and K. Venclauskiai exposition was opened at the house, illustrating the domestic and public lives of the noted lawyer and talented actress and stage manager. In 1993, in memory of the more than 100 foundlings and impoverished children who were raised in the family, a statue was unveiled on the terrace of the museum called "Motherhood" (sculptor A. Snaras). Now the building houses the administration of the Museum, History Department and Exhibitions and Visitors' Service Department, a library, and the halls for exhibitions.

Poet’s Jovaras house

Vytauto Street 116, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 524 397
Opening hours: II-V 10 a. m. – 6 p. m.; VI 11 a. m. – 5 p. m.

The exposition "The World and Fates of Literature Creators" (author - D. Striogaite) opened in 1986, represents the beginning of Siauliai literary museum in Poet's Jovaras House. Unique exhibits reflect the lives and creation of such Lithuanian writers as P. Visinskis, Zemaite, G. Petkevicaite-Bite, Satrijos Ragana, M. Untulis, M. Slanciauskas, M. Grigonis, J. Miliauskas-Miglovara, J. Janonis, K. Korsakas, F. Kirsa, L. Jakavicius-Lietuvanis, and others. Exhibitions, traditional poetry springs and other events take place in the Poet Jovaras House as well.

Museum of Cats

Žuvininkų Street 18, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 523 883
Opening hours: II-VI 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
E-mail: info@gamtininkucentras.mir.lt
Ticket: adult - 4 Lt privileged - 2 Lt
Vanda Kavaliauskiene founded the museum on The 17th of May 1990. She had been collecting exhibits for the museum many years. The first exhibit - little black wooden cat was brought from Poland in 1962.
There are over 4 000 exhibits in the museum. Cats in stained glass, greet visitors on stair handrails, on the lamps, etc.

Railway Museum

Dubijos Street 44, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 203 684, +370 612 68 709
Opening hours: II-V 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. - 17:00 p.m.
VI 7:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. - 14:45 p.m.
Ticket free of Charge
The Museum was founded on September 4, 1971 in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of Šiauliai Railroad Station. The initiator behind the Museum's founding was the then head of the Šiauliai Railroad Station, A. Petuchovskis.
At the exposition, there are books about railroads, railroad techniques, and means of technology; signal lanterns used in the past, means of communication; examples of railroad tracks produced in various European countries; the everyday items used by railroad workers, coins, and stamps. The largest exhibit is the narrow railroad steam-engine train.

Fire Engine museum

Lakūnų Street 2, Šiauliai (Šiauliai airport)
Phone +370 41 542 003
Opening hours: I-V 9 a. m. - 3 p. m.
Ticket free of Charge
E-mail siauliai.3komanda@vpgt.lt
This one's run by the nice people who provide fire support services at the airport and is made up of a single hangar full of fire engines. Most of the machines are modernish Soviet beasts although there are a couple of gems including a gorgeous converted 1957 Chevrolet 4400 complete with original wooden interior.

Fire-Prevention Protection Museum

J. Basanavičiaus Street 89, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 397 911
Opening hours: I-V 9.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.
E-mail: siauliai.pgt@vpgt.lt 
Ticket free of Charge
A tiny room upstairs inside the fire station, this rather depressing museum includes a lovely old German wooden fire engine from around 1900, a handful of uniforms and examples of what can happen to ordinary household goods if they catch fire. One for those who have a genuine interest in firemen, and of little curiosity to anybody else.

Museum of Water Facilities

Vytauto Street 103, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 592 257
Opening hours: I-IV 8a.m.-5 p.m., V 8 a.m.-4.40 p.m.
Ticket free of Charge
This museum was established on the premises of the Šiauliai water supply tower in 1974. The exhibition is arranged in a circle inside the tower perimeter. It presents the history of the Joint-Stock Company "Šiauliø Vandenys", its construction, regional water economy development and reconstruction stages, the achievements of its team-working staff, its traditions and its recent activities.

Museum of Police

Aušros Avenue 19, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 397 522
Opening hours: I-V 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Ticket free of Charge
With tours available in Lithuanian and Russian only (or as help in Šiauliai tourism information centre), you'll need an interpreter to make sense of this peculiar contribution to the city's life of crime-busting. One small room hidden away at the back of the police headquarters showcases everything from uniforms to examples of the tools used by modern Lithuanian petty criminals to an amusing black and white photograph of the Šiauliai police force as it appeared between the wars, complete with ice-cream-cone helmets as worn by the British police force.

Anatomic pathology museum

V. Kudirkos Street 99, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 524 271
Ticket free of Charge
Opening hours: by appointment only.
Dr. Osvaldas Lapienis (1928-2001), who founded the hospital's Pathology Department, started collecting his gruesome exhibits in about 1955 for teaching purposes only. His posthumous collection of some 500 pickled body parts, babies, tumours and other delights is now on show inside this grisly museum.

Museum of Isolator of investigation

Trakų Street 10, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 430 921
Ticket free of Charge
Opening hours: by appointment only.
Opened in 2000, find a collection of so-called forbidden things and a selection of works of art made by the inmates.

Sport museum

J. Jablonskio Street 16, Šiauliai (Šiauliai Arena)
Phone +370 41 437 328
E-mail kkm@kkm.lt
Opening hours I-IV 8 a.m. - 5 p. m., V 8 a. m. - 3.45 p.m.
Ticket free of Charge
Opened in January 2008 inside the city's large modern, multi-purpose arena, this small museum celebrates the sporting legends of the area and is the only sport-related museum in northern Lithuania.