Prize winners G.Zabiela and A.Verbickas

A.Verbickas is being greeted by S.Mikeliuniene, T.Mikeliunaite’s relative

• It is a month since a new tourism season started in the Museum. Thousands of students have already visited the place. This year Museum employees have started the new season having renovated the expositions and suggesting new activities.
  • At A.Vienuolis Memorial Museum
  • At J.Biliūnas Memorial Museum
  • On the Seimyniskeliai Mound
  • In Anysciai St.Mathew’s Church
• The project  “Don’t Turn Away from Yourself”
• A New Project: A Wooden Castle on Seimyniskelliai Mound >>>
• New Expositions >>>
• 125th Jonas Biliunas’ Anniversary>>>
• From the year of 2001 on, there has been a tradition in Anyksciai to award a nominal Terese Mikeliunaite‘s Prize of Culture to people being distinct in cultural life of the year. This year the Price was granted to Antanas Verbickas, the Museum’s director, implementing new projects in the Horse Museum as well as the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum.

• The Museum took part in the contest “From the Civil Initiative to the Civil Society” organized by the Fund of Education Change and gained the financial support to its project “Don’t Turn Away from Yourself”. The project initiators are planning a wide cultural and art program. In the former synagogue of Anykščiai, the Museum employees together with school pupils are going to construct a temporary exposition called “Jews in Anykščiai: History and Nowadays”. In the Synagogues square actions of art a going to take place. In the railway carriage which now belongs to the Museum of the Narrow Gauge Railway and which used to bring deportees from Anykščiai to Siberia some 50 years ago they are going to construct a historical art exposition as well as organize an action called “That Dusty Train”.

• At the beginning of 2004 school pupils of Anykščiai region will be invited to history classes called “The Jews of Anykščiai Region: Their Routine, Business and Customs” and “The Jewish Genocide in Anykščiai Region”. The pupils will be introduced to the social and cultural life of the Jewish Community of Anykščiai in the period between the two World Wars as well as their tragic destiny.

• Museum employee Asta Ražanskienė has started an educational program called “Let Me to My Homeland”. In the Chapel there is held an exhibition of art by former deportee and partisan Mykolas Dirsė. While visiting the exhibition, the school pupils are acquainted with life of deportees, their creation and destiny as well as fulfill certain tasks.