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Museum of the local lore, named after K. Būga
in Dusetos
Information
Secondary school of Dusetos named after K.Būga
Vytauto g. 56
LT-4792, Dusetos
Tel. 8-270-56531, 56534
History
Zofija Vilytė (1927-1988), a history teacher,
greatly contributed to museum founding. By her efforts lots of
exhibits were collected and the thematic work was started. In 1962 the
first exhibition was opened. In 1964 it was severe damaged by fire. In
1975 a new exhibition on the cultural and economical life, the
history, the culture, the mode of life and the nature of the region
was arranged. In 1989 the museum was reconstructed and the information
renewed.
Exhibition
The exhibition on ethnography and archaelogy
represents the life of a primitive community in the Dusetos region.
There are photos of the mounds from Vozgėliai, Velikuškės, Betiškės,
Skinaikiai, Narkyčiai, Stukakalnis and a collection of stone axes.
There are parts of flint axes, some fragment of clay plates from the
Vozgėliai mound, some brown alloy fragments. Some files on the region
mounds, which the young ethnographicts prepared, also stories of old
people, legends and excavations, which were carried out by the
expedition, run by P. Tarasenka, an archeologist, in the Vozgėliai
and Velikuškės mounds, present a wide panorama of the district.
The ethnographical exhibition presents belongings
of peasants, household utensils and instruments of the XIX-XX century.
The corner of a housewife presents a lot of utensils for dairy
products, for honey, wicker baskets of all size for feeding peasants
in the fields, a wooden bow and a wooden plate of the oak form. There
are a lot of measures: widely used "bezmenas", pound for
butter, many plates. There are instruments for flax process, patterns
of painting, a dowry chest, ancient home made fabrics and national
costumes of the end of the XIX century.
The exhibition on history presents information on
participants of the revolts in 1831 and in 1863. There are a lot of
photos of the town and the church. A separate stand is devoted to a
horse race. There is an exhibition on the secondary school history
during 1530-1940, its pupils and teachers.
On the second floor there is a space room with
the pupils works on art.
The teacher Loreta Bugienė is responsible for
the museum.
The secondary school of K. Būga is a founder of
the museum.
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Photo
The ethnographical museum in Dusetos.
Monument of K. Buga in Dusetos.
A fragment of the exposition.
The chronicle of Dusetos.
A fragment of the exposition.
A fragment of the exposition.
A fragment of the exposition.
L.Bugiene, a museum worker.
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