Museums
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.
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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.ltOpening hours: Tue-Fri 10 am-6 pm; Sat-Sun 11 am-5 pm. The Park is open Mon-Sun 10 am-10 pm. Ticket - 6 Lt, with discount - 3 Lt. Guided tour (Lithuanian, English, Russian) - 40 Lt, with discount - 20 Lt. Audioguided tour (Lithuanian, English) - 30 Lt, with discount - 15 Lt. Educational activities - 6 Lt, with discount - 3 Lt. Photography / shooting in exposition - 10 / 20 Lt Guided tours must be booked in advance by tel. +370 41 43 36 80, e-mail: info@ausrosmuziejus.lt.  The restored Ch. Frenkelis Villa with a park, and a fountain located in it, is a very exclusive site in Šiauliai city. The Villa is unique, one of only a few in Lithuania constructed in early 20th century buildings in the Art Noveau (Modern, Secession, Jugend) architectural style. Elements of different styles interweave in decoration of this State protected cultural monument's facades, authentic interior fascinates the visitors with ornate wooden decorations, stucco works, and imposing fragments of frescos. Residence Villa, next to the flourishing leather factory, was built in 1908 by one of the most famous all times Šiauliai manufacturers Chaimas Frenkelis, who was even called "the King of Leather". Stylized expositions "Provincial Estate and a Town", "Jewish Cultural Heritage in Šiauliai: the Merchants Frenkelis" are now presented in the two-storey Villa. Miscellaneous Villa's expositions introduce culture of Lithuanian provincial estate (middle 19th-middle 20 th c.), history of Šiauliai city in the Interwar period, and Jewish heritage. Exposition devoted to the blind and visually handicapped people "The Artifacts that Speak" (for a while just one of a few such expositions in Lithuania) was recently opened in Villa as well. The Villa is offering a wide choice of exhibitions, concerts, film and music festivals, and other events as well. Educational activity "Secrets of Kosher" presents Jewish culture and traditional cuisine. Price per person - 25 Lt, with discount - 20 Lt. Price II-V after 5pm, VI-VII after 4 pm - 31 Lt, with discount - 23 Lt. Group consisting of 10-40 persons. Educational activity must be booked in advance, before 3 workdays by tel. +370 41 524 394, e-mail: edukacija@ausrosmuziejus.lt.
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Žaliūkių Village Miller’s Farmstead
 Architektų St. 73, Šiauliai
Phone: +370 41 21 11 98
E-mail: info@ausrosmuziejus.lt, www.ausrosmuziejus.lt
Opening hours: III-V 10.00-18.00 val., VI-VII 11.00-17.00 val.
Ticket - 4 Lt, with discount - 2 Lt.
Guided tour led by "miller" - 30 Lt, with discount - 15 Lt.
Educational activities - 6 Lt, with discount - 3 Lt.
Photography / shooting in exposition - 5 / 10 Lt
Guided tours must be booked in advance by tel. +370 41 43 36 80, e-mail: info@ausrosmuziejus.lt.
A space for ethnoculture, customs and traditions, activities and merry-making is surrounded by modern city. There was recreated miller's farmhouse and restored the only survived in Šiauliai construction of Lithuanian traditional wooden architecture from the 2nd part of the 19th c. - Žaliūkių Windmill. All-year-round the everyday life of Miller's family - grain grinding, bread baking - is going on; sometimes it is spiced by Lithuanian traditional calendar celebrations.
Žaliūkių Windmill was constructed around 1875-1880 by a person of German descent - Johann Wilhelm Daniel. During the period of 2008-2011, the Windmill was restored and Miller's Farmstead - rebuilt. Today major Lithuanian calendar celebrations - Shrovetide Tuesday, Easter, Assumption - are celebrated in the Farmstead.
One of the most popular museum's educational activities "Bread Baking" is organized in Miller's Farmstead. Price for group up to 30 persons - 100 Lt (I-V after 5pm, VI-VII after 4 pm - 200 Lt). Exposition per person - 4 Lt, with discount - 2 Lt.
Educational activity must be booked in advance, before 7 workdays by tel. +370 41 52 43 94, e-mail: edukacija@ausrosmuziejus.lt.
  
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Šiauliai Aušros Museum Education Center
 Aušros Av. 47, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 43 36 80, 52 43 91, E-mail info@ausrosmuziejus.lt, www.ausrosmuziejus.ltOpening hours:
Tue–Fri 9 am–5 pm; Sat 11 am–5 pm.  Ticket - 4 Lt, with discount - 2 Lt. Guided - 30 Lt, with discount - 15 Lt. Educational activities - 6 Lt, with discount - 3 Lt. Photography / shooting in exposition - 5 / 10 Lt Guided tours must be booked in advance by tel. +370 41 433 680, e-mail: info@ausrosmuziejus.lt.
Educational activities must be booked in advance by tel. +370 41 524 394, e-mail: edukacija@ausrosmuziejus.lt. This Šiauliai Aušros Museum's subdivision is a well-liked centre for educational activities. Archaeological and Ethnographic expositions reveal the most ancient history of Šiauliai area, present paesant way and view of life in Samogitia and North Lithuania. The stylized historic surounding perfectly fits for educational activities aimed to cognize the past.
In 2012 October, a stylized Interwar period (1918-1941) class-room opened its door, where shoolchildren attend special lessons, thus symbolically paying homage to the school that was operating in this building during the Interwar and WW II period.
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Bicycle Museum
V ilniaus Street 139, ŠiauliaiPhone +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 - 6 Lt, with discount - 3 Lt. Guided tour (Lithuanian, English, Russian) - 40 Lt, with discount - 20 Lt. Audioguided tour (Lithuanian, English) - 30 Lt, with discount - 15 Lt. Photography / shooting in exposition - 10 / 20 Lt Guided tours must be booked in advance by tel. +370 41 43 36 80, e-mail: info@ausrosmuziejus.lt.  In 1980 the only one this type museum in Lithuania was established at Šiauliai Bicycle and Engine Factory "Vairas". In 1993, it was given over to Šiauliai Aušros Museum. Exposition of Museum presents history of birth and development of a bicycle - one of the most ancient and most popular means of communication, sports, ecological means of transportation. In 2011, Bicycle Museum's exposition was refreshed with newly acquired the 5.000.000th bicycle produced by Baltik Vairas factory.
The Museum houses various events, popularizing bicycle, exhibitions, precautionary educational actions.
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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 - 2 Lt, with discount - 1 Lt. Guided tour - 30 Lt, with discount - 15 Lt. Photography / shooting in exposition - 5 / 10 Lt. Guided tours must be booked in advance by tel. +370 41 43 36 80, e-mail: info@ausrosmuziejus.lt.
The Museum was established in 1982 on initiative of local ethnographer Jonas Rimkevičius, under the wardship of Šiauliai Television Plant. In 1994, it became a part of Šiauliai Aušros Museum. The Museum reveals the development of sound and view recall, telecommunication devices, helps to get acquainted and understand the principles and potential of them, presents collections of rare exhibits, organizes exhibitions on variable occations concerning radio and television history.
Museum displays the 19th-20th c. symphonion, phonograph, gramophones, record-players, radio-receivers, first TV-sets - both Lithuanian and the foreign ones. Visitors are welcome to listen to the sounds of musical box (early 19 th c.), vinyl records played by mechanical record-player, to send SOS or love signal using Morse code, to work with telegraph apparatus.
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Photography Museum
Vilniaus Street 140, Šiauliai
CLOSED FOR RECONSTRUCTION TILL 2013 The only in Lithuania museum dealing with art and technology of photography, an important centre for photographs safeguarding and representation. Photography Museum established in 1973, was one of the first specialized museums in Eastern and Middle Europe, reflecting art and technology of photography. The Museum is located in authentic, modern to its time building, constructed during the Interwar period (3-4th dec., 20th c.), in the very centre of the city. Modernly reconstructed museum will distinguish itself through its diverse activities: there will be a modern gallery, photo laboratory, reading room and information centre, souvenir and publications shop, a viewpoint with "camera obscura", summer cafe located in open roof terrace. Non-traditional new museum exposition, that is being created just now, will be constantly changing and updated. Every visitor will have possibility to become active participant and creator of the exposition.
The reconstructed gallery of Photography Museum is sheduled to open in May, 2013.
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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.
In 1923, on the initiative of the Patriarch of Lithuanian museology - Peliksas Bugailiškis, a museum was established in Šiauliai and named after the first Lithuanian newspaper - "Aušra". Today, Šiauliai Aušros Museum is one of the largest and most active Lithuanian museums, accumulating, safeguarding, popularizing historical, artistic, technological heritage, helping to get knowledge about the past, to conceive our nowadays, and to create the future. Expositions reflecting rich museum's collections, attractive educational activities, purposeful events and festivals satisfy the needs of the most choosy visitor.
Museum's collections comprise of 250. 000 exhibits, 8 departments and 9 expositions.
In 2001, there was established Restoration Centre, where the museum valuables from all Lithuania created of paper, wood and metal are restored.
Publishing activities of the Museum, initiated by P. Bugailiškis during the Interwar period, are succesfully cultivated nowadays as well. Over 100 publications have been released. Your requests concerning the Museum should be addressed to Public Relations Department, tel. +370 41 43 36 80, mob. +370 687 71 494, e-mail: info@ausrosmuziejus.lt , www.ausrosmuziejus.lt.
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Poet’s Jovaras house
 Vytauto Street 116, Šiauliai
For visiting this exposition please call in advance: tel. +370 41 43 36 80.
Ticket - 2 Lt, with discount - 1 Lt.
Guided tour - 30 Lt, with discount - 15 Lt.
Educational activities - 6 Lt, with discount - 3 Lt.
Photography / shooting in exposition - 5 / 10 Lt
Guided tours must be booked in advance by tel. +370 41 43 36 80, e-mail: info@ausrosmuziejus.lt.
Educational activities must be booked in advance by tel. +370 41 52 43 94, e-mail: edukacija@ausrosmuziejus.lt.
 In memorial museum of a poet and book-smuggler Jonas Krikščiūnas-Jovaras (1880-1967) authentic environment from 20 th c. 6 th-7th decades and the stylized early 20th c. book store are presented. After the WW II, a poet and book-smuggler Jonas Krikščiūnas-Jovaras (1880-1967) lived in the house up to his last days. In 1983, the house was given over to Šiauliai Aušros Museum.
Revived and renewed exposition recreates characteristic atmosphere of poets', litterateurs', city residents' everyday life and cultural communication.
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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 - 5 Lt privileged - 3 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.
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Chocolate Museum
 Tilžės str. 133. Šiauliai
Tel. +370 41 523 212, +370 610 410 50,
E-mail: sokoladomuziejus@ruta.lt,
http://www.sokoladomuziejus.lt/
Opening hours: I - V 10.00-19.00** val. VI 10.00-17.00** val.
** Last admission 60 minutes before closing
Ticket: Adults - 9 Lt; Children (ages 6-16), schoolchildren, students, seniors, disabled - 7 Lt
Free: under age 5
Family ticket: Four persons (2+2) - 27 Lt; Five persons (2+3) - 34 Lt
Guided tour - 10 Lt
Educational activities
Program duration: ~ 1 hour. Prior reservation is required.
Educational activity SWEET LABORATORY (English, Russian languages):
Come and feel like a chocolatier! Discover how chocolates are produced, try your hand at production of chocolates and enjoy them right away. Adults - 28 Lt; Children (under age 16), schoolchildren, students - 23 Lt
Museum + educational program Sweet Laboratory:
Adults - 33 Lt; Children (under age 16), schoolchildren, students - 28 Lt
Educational activity TASTE AND ENJOY (English, Russian languages):
Welcome to taste and enjoy various candies, made in factory Rūta. Come and discover a lot of fascinating things about chocolate and candies! I. Program for adults - 28 Lt; II. Program for children (up to age 16), schoolchildren, students - 21 Lt
Museum + educational activity Taste and Enjoy:
Adults - 33 Lt; Children (up to age 16), schoolchildren, students - 26 Lt
Recommended group size up to 30 (group of 15 visits museum exposition and group of 15 attend educational activities).
More information you can get on tel. +370 41 523 212, +370 610 410 50, e-mail: sokoladomuziejus@ruta.lt, or http://www.sokoladomuziejus.lt/
Take a look at nearly four millennia-long history of chocolate. Learn how it was made by the Maya and Aztec peoples, and how chocolate and its consuming traditions have changed since then. Find out about the first chocolate and candy factories in Lithuania and take a closer look at RŪTA, the oldest operating candy factory in the country.
  
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National Dolls Museum
 Vilniaus St. 213, Šiauliai
Tel. +370 683 55 723
Opening hours:
October - April
Tue-Fri 10 am-5 pm, Sat 10 am-3 pm
May - September
Tue-Fri 10 am-6 pm, Sat 10 am-4 pm
Ticket:
October - April
Adult 6 Lt, Children from 3 years, schoolchildren, students, seniors 4 Lt
Groups (from 15 to 30)
Adults 5 Lt, Children from 3 years, schoolchildren, students, seniors 3 Lt
Family ticket (2 adults + 1 children) Adults 5 Lt
Guided tour 20 Lt
May - September
Adults 8 Lt, Children from 3 years, schoolchildren, students, seniors 5 Lt
Groups (from 15 to 30)
Adults 6 Lt, Children from 3 years, schoolchildren, students, seniors 4 Lt
Family ticket (2 adults + 1 children) Adults 6 Lt
Guided tour 30 Lt
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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.
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Fire Engine museum
 Lakūnų Street 2, Šiauliai (Šiauliai airport)
Phone +370 41 542 003
Opening hours: I-V 9 a. m. - 3 p. m. (by appointment only, call from 7.30 a. m. to 8.30 a.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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Movie Museum
 Aušros al. 15, Šiauliai
Phone +370 618 29 932, for visiting this exposition please call in advance
E-mail kinoklubas@splius.lt
Ticket free of Charge
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