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The cultural heritage collection of the manors of Šiauliai "Aušros" museum is presented in Chaim Frenkel's villa-museum

The cultural heritage collection of the manors of Šiauliai "Aušros" museum is presented in Chaim Frenkel's villa-museum

2024-12-17

The exhibition reviews the purposeful efforts of the museum in the interwar period to actualize the significance of the cultural heritage of the manors, presents the process of registration and protection of cultural values ​​organized in the nationalized manors in 1940-1943, and the role of the "Aušra" museum in it.

The exhibition exhibits the cultural values ​​of the manors from the collections of the Šiauliai "Aušras" museum, as well as exhibits brought specially for this exhibition from other memory institutions: from the keys of the Berženiai manor to valuable 18th-19th century. artificial porcelain, paintings, sculptures, furniture. Some of these values ​​are being presented to the public for the first time. The stylized reconstruction of the interior of the manor created in the exhibition reflects the 19th-20th centuries. p. The image of the manors of the Northern Lithuania region, the everyday life of the nobles of that time, their artistic taste and education, interest in the cultural innovations of Western Europe significantly complements the exhibition "Provincial manor and city in the 19th century" in Chaim Frenkel's villa-museum. avg. - 20th century average".

The next part of the exhibition "ŠAM - 101: in the footsteps of the first collections. Heritage of ethnic culture" is exhibited in Šiauliai History Museum (Aušros al. 47, Šiauliai). It introduces the main directions of formation of collections of Šiauliai "Aušras" museum: ethnographic expeditions, individual values ​​and collections transferred to the museum by private individuals, thematic collections accumulated during the preparation of museum exhibitions.

The exhibition will be on display in museums until 2025 April 13th

The organizer is Šiauliai "Aušros" museum. The sponsor is the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.