Samogitian Diocese Museum, Telsiai County, Lithuania
3.0 (2 reviews) Thursday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Spent < 1 hour Ranking #2 in Varniai Speciality Museums • History Museums
Local museum of history and religion
Though it is difficult to believe now, looking at the small sleepy town, but Varniai was once one of the cultural and religious centres of Lithuania. The museum reflects this glorious past. Its expositions deal mainly with history of Varniai episcopate, history of Catholicism in Samogitia and generally in Lithuania and some non-religious historical issues. Ticket fees are very small; excursions in other than Lithuanian languages are available, too. However, all is very local, so it is worth visiting only if specifically interested in the subjects covered by the expositions. Most of the interest I found in the building of the museum and environs. The building is typically baroque, though through a long and turbulent history of use (as military barracks and even jail among everything) it had lost most of baroque features which were restored to their former looks only during the last two decades. This is why this incongruous look of the modern grey brick masonry of the tower. The museum is surrounded by a nice park, where some sculptures were set – some of the old times, in an awful style of Soviet realism, some are modern, depicting most important historical religious figures of the episcopate. There is also a beautifully restored building of an old inn in the viscinity and a cemetery of WWII Russian soldiers (for some reason they always buried their casualties in the central areas of towns and villages instead of cemeteries).
Address
S. Daukanto g 6, Varniai 88318 Lithuania
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Website
http://www.muziejusalka.lt/lt/muziejaus-veikla/ekspozicijos/zemaiciu-vyskupystes-muziejus/
Working hours
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Tuesday :
Wednesday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Friday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Current local date and time now
Thursday, May 09, 2024, 23:26
User Ratings
3.0 based on (2 reviews)
