- Celebrated the hundredth anniversary of
Narrow gauge railway a temporary exposition of the history of Narrow
gauge railway was established in the former storehouse. The Museum also
uses some buildings and roads of the railway station.
- Since 1998 the Museum staff was looking
for exhibits: equipment, photographs, documents. They were brought from
various sections of railway.
- When in 2000 the carriages were taken away
to the scrap metal, some kinds of rolling- stock were left: a roofed
cargo carriage, a platform, a tank-car, a roofed carriage (ice-car), a
steam engine. A very important accent became a narrow railway engine “Kukushka”,
which was given as a gift from a businessman Jozef Fiedorovicz. As the
exposition was becoming more extensive, it became the most important
cultural fact in Anyksciai and was rewarded a premium, established by
Anyksciai municipality.
- In 2002-2003 the Museum accomplished the
project “Reconstruction of the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum” which
was financed by PHARE 2000 ESS program. The rolling stock was preserved
and rebuilt, the shelter for protection was made, some railcars and
carriages for entertainment were obtained, the surrounding is being
tidied. The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum is becoming more popular. About
10 000 tourists have visited the expositions, ridden a rail cycle,
driven a manual railcar since the first days of the museum. All
activities are attached to preserving the narrow railway and making it
popular.
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