COLLECTIONS
A collection has been collected for 25 years and has got 3133 exhibits. Every year new exhibits are added and expeditions organised. There are four main collections now.
 
There are 275 exhibits in it: house holding and family life things of the end of the19th the beginning of the 20th centuries, tools of a smith, wheel right, roofer. The main part of this collection was obtained in Anyksciai district and reflects the material culture.
 
It is the smallest collection. There are 62 exhibits in it. Peasant summer and winter horse-carriages, which were common to all ethnographical regions at the beginning of the 20th century is the basis of this collection. Fire station carriage with the stock takes a special place.
 
There are 200 implements in the collection. They were used from the end of the 19th century till the 7th decade of the 20th century You can see horse implements and agricultural machines, harness, iron horse-lock, saddles-light and cavalry and horseshoes of different sizes.
 
It is the biggest collection, which is divided into 459 sets. The basis is the philately collection about horses. Jonas Gelazevicius gave it to the Museum. The period of exhibits is from the third decade of the20th century till 1993. Here you can see stamps published in Lithuania and foreign countries, envelopes, post cards, paper money, coins of 1922-1941 and after 1990. Emigrant Povilas Virbickas presented the collection of postcards and stamps with horses and agricultural implements to the Museum.

 

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