The Open Air Museum of Lithuania in Rumðiðkës
The Open Air Museum of Lithuania in Rumðiðkës (Kaiðiadorys District), its on the road from Kaunas to Vilnius. The core exhibits of this museum include houses, farmstead buildings and folk art monuments from all ethnographic regions of Lithuania, Aukðtaitija, Þemaitija, Suvalkija and Dzûkija, and reassembled in a 175-ha area, in a beautiful location near the Kaunas Man-made Sea. Some of the buildings were constructed 200 years ago and earlier. They acquaint visitors with the mode of life as well as housing construction and equipment techniques of people during various periods. 140 buildings are exposed as farmsteads and villages while town’s buildings are grouped around a square. The farmsteads show fences, draw-wells, gardens or parterres. The majority of interior expositions display restored household articles and furniture, cloths, kitchen utensils and tools typical to one or other...


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