Museums
 Vilniaus Street 74, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 524 389 Opening hours: Tue-Fri 10 am-6 pm; Sat-Sun 11 am-5 pm Ticket / guided tour: adult - 6 Lt / 40 Lt; privileged - 3 Lt / 20 Lt The Šiauliai Aušros Museum's subdivision Chaimas Frenkelis Villa is the only architectural monument in Šiauliai and one of a few in Lithuania built in the Art Nouveau (Secession, Jugend) style. The interiors of the building distinguish themselves with ornate wooden decoration, stuccowork and imposing fragments of frescos. The first part of the Exposition "A Provincial Manor and a Town at the middle of the 19th - the middle of the 20th c." creates a stylized environment of an estate. There are 4 gallery (Eastern Art Gallery, the Kings' Gallery, the Landords portraits' Gallery and The Gallery) and 4 interior halls (The Library, The Yellow and The Green Salons, and The Dining Room). The second part of the hall - "The Provincial Town" - is equipped with retro cinema hall "Kapitol" , prewar streets and a reconstruction of a shop. The exposition "Jewish Heritage in Šiauliai: the Merchants Frenkelis" reflects a life of the prominent manufacturer, the owner of the Villa, Ch. Frenkelis. |
 Aušros Av. 47, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 524 391 Opening hours:
July–September: Wed–Fri 10 am–6 pm; Sat–Sun 11 am–5 pm; October–June: Tue–Fri 9 am–5 pm; Sat 11 am–5 pm. Ticket / guided tour: adult – 6 Lt / 40 Lt; privileged – 3 Lt / 20 Lt In the Šiauliai Aušros Museum's subdivision Aušros Avenue Mansion you can visit archaeology and ethnography expositions: "The Past of Šiauliai Region from the Ancient Times till the 17th c." and "Peasants" Mode of Life and their Existence". The archaeological exposition presents the history and material culture of the Northern Lithuania and Šiauliai Region from the Oldest times, Stone Age, until the 17th c. There are displayed work tools, weapons, adornments, treasure of archeological findings and reconstructions. The ethnography exposition reflects peasants' mode of life, trades, rituals, and calendar holidays at Samogitia (emaitija) and Šiauliai region between the 18th and the first part of the 20th century. |
 Vilniaus Street 139, ŠiauliaiPhone +370 41 524 395 Opening hours:
July–September: Wed–Fri 10 am–6 pm; Sat–Sun 11 am–5 pm; October–June: Tue–Fri 10 am–6 pm; Sat 11 am–5 pm. Ticket / guided tour: adult – 6 Lt / 40 Lt; privileged – 3 Lt / 20 Lt The Šiauliai Aušros Museum's subdivision Bicycle Museum is the only museum in Lithuania of this type. An exposition "Bicycle and Lithuania" that is displayed there presents the history and development of a bicycle. Moreover, there are the first Lithuanian home-made wooden and iron bikes also bicycles manufactured in Germany, England and other countries, that were the most popular in Lithuania before the Second World War. What is more, modern bicycles, segways and their accessories are on a display. |
 Vilniaus Street 174, ŠiauliaiOpening hours:
July–September: Wed–Fri 10 am–6 pm; Sat–Sun 11 am–5 pm; October–June: Tue–Fri 10 am–6 pm; Sat 11 am–5 pm. Ticket / guided tour: adult – 4 Lt / 30 Lt; privileged – 2 Lt / 15 Lt Phone +370 41 524 399 In the Šiauliai Aušros Museum's subdivision Radio and Television Museum you can visit an exposition "Sound and View Reconstruction Devices". It presents the development of mechanical sound recall devices, telegraph, radio, and a development of television in Lithuania. There are unique the 19th - beginning of 20th c. musical boxes, gramophones, record-players, phonograph (the first sound recording and recalling device), made according to the model of T. Edison, radio receivers, produced in Lithuania from 1922 to 1980, TV sets, manufactured in Lithuania and other countries since 1949. A short history of a telegraph and an operating process of telegraph devices is presented here as well. |
Photography Museum
Vilniaus Street 140, Šiauliai
CLOSED FOR RECONSTRUCTION TILL 2013 The Šiauliai Aušros Museum's subdivision Photography Museum is the only museum in Lithuania of such a type. The expositions are not available now, because of a preparation for a reconstruction of the building. Photography Museum works as a gallery. Visitors can visit two exhibition halls, where exhibitions of both historical and modern photography are frequently presented. |
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 Vytauto street 89, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 524 392
Opening hours: I–V 9 a. m. – 5 p. m.; V 10 a.m. – 4 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.
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 Vytauto Street 116, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 524 397
Opening hours: I-IV 10 a. m. – 5 p. m.; V 10 a. m. – 4 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.
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 uvininkų 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 10 000 exhibits in the museum. Cats in stained glass, greet visitors on stair handrails, on the lamps, etc.
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 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. - 16:45 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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 Lakūnų Street 2, Šiauliai (Šiauliai airport)
Phone +370 41 542 003
Opening hours: I-V 8 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.
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 J. Basanavičiaus Street 89, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 397 911
Opening hours: I-IV 7.30 a.m. - 4.30 p.m., V- 7.30 a.m. - 3.15 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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 Vytauto Street 103, Šiauliai
Phone +370 41 592 257
Opening hours: I-IV 8a.m.-5 p.m., V 8 a.m.-4.45 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 "Šiaulių 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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 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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 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.
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 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.
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 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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