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©Arūnas Sniečkus
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Antanas and Jonas Juška Museum of Ethnic Culture

  • Vilkija, Lithuania
  • Museum
Antanas and Jonas Juška Museum of Ethnic Culture Vilkija
Contact
Hours:
Tuesday to Sunday 09:00 - 18:00
Phone:
+370 67400631
©Arūnas Sniečkus
Tickets: Adults 1 euro, concessions 0,5 euros

This museum dedicated to the brothers Antanas and Jonas Juška, who nurtured all things Lithuanian, is part of the Kaunas District Museum established in 1990 through the efforts of Arūnas and Vida Sniečkas. It is located in the small town of Vilkija, on the north side of the River Nemunas, in the former presbytery. Older than 300 years, it is the oldest surviving building in Vilkija, and it has the largest chimney-smokehouse in Lithuania.

©Arūnas Sniečkus

Antanas Juška was the most renowned Lithuanian ethnographer, a Roman Catholic pastor, a lexicographer, a folklorist and a musicologist, who in the 19th century recorded 7,000 Lithuanian songs and compiled a dictionary of more than 70,000 old Lithuanian words. His house was visited by the most famous Lithuanian artists, painters, philosophers and writers of the 19th century. Today, visitors can see many old Lithuanian traditional textiles, chests, ancient household items, books, authentic letters and documents.

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