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The order of the Minister of Culture providing for this is currently being coordinated.
Under the project, the farm will be protected for public use and awareness.
Its valuable features are architectural, historical, commemorative in nature. The landscape and vegetation of the farm are also considered valuable.
“It would be a very correct movement because it is a unique object. (…) I imagine attention will be paid to the object itself at the state level, ”said Zigmas Kalesinskas, director of the Kaunas District Museum, about the new status of the farm at BNS.
“It has not yet been fully disclosed or disclosed,” he said.
According to the director, the museum becomes more open to visitors, because last year the Kaunas District Municipal Council finally took over Obelynė from the heirs, a 4-hectare territory with a farm, buildings, park, garden where 220 apples grow, grafted by T. Ivanauskas himself or raised and cultivated.
Now this farm is a division of the Kaunas District Museum.
The director said museologists are uncovering real treasures as they begin to take inventory of the foreclosed property.
“Glass negatives were discovered, capturing images of the ancient Nemunas flood in 1931 and images of the Obelyn construction.” They are not investigated, they are also objects of science. Many albums, photos of the professor himself, collected from expeditions in Siberia, Brazil, “said Z. Kalesinskas.
“That corner is full of the spirit of Tadas Ivanauskas and his family. Personal objects, many porcelain collections, albums, works of art, paintings by Antanas Žmuidzinavičius, because T. Ivanauskas had a lot of communication with him, photos with Kipras Petrauskas, intellectuals and interwar Kaunas art figures, Honorata Ivanauskienė’s piano. It seems that we will coordinate it, we will definitely do concerts, “said the director.
“It is a great treasure that has not been discovered and has not been fully revealed,” said Z. Kalesinskas of Obelynė.
According to him, the current condition of the house is tolerable, but it is necessary to invest in heating the building, tidying up the walls. The municipality of Kaunas district has already repaired the broken roof, installed a sanitary unit, maintained a veranda, installed a fire alarm system.
“We have a unique person, and the object that preserved its authenticity, its way of life, the artifacts of life with all its being, is definitely worthy of state protection,” Z. Kalesinskas told BNS.
Obelybe’s farm consists of a dwelling house, a chicken coop, a laying, a cellar, a park and a garden.
According to museum data, Professor T. Ivanauskas bought 8 hectares of land from the stately Marva plot near Ringaudai in 1920. He discovered this place while hunting in the Kamša forest. It was attracted by two deep ditches (Varžupis and Obelynė) with mixed stands and abundant varied vegetation.
After World War II, the territory was nationalized and T. Ivanauskas was left with only 15 acres near the buildings. In 1963, Obelynė was transferred to the Faculty of Forestry of the then Academy of Agriculture.
Thanks to T. Ivanauskas, one of the richest dendrological collections in the country has been accumulated in Obelynė. The park’s collection of plants consists of about fifteen hundred species, shaped trees and shrubs. It contains 59 species and shapes of conifers: gray, Siberian, European, balsamic, Caucasian and Japanese fir, 15 species of alien fir, six species of larch.
The relics of the park are the European yew and its hybrid conical shape: a yew sprouted from the Far East.
One of the oldest trees on the planet also grows in the apple orchard: a dicotyledon ginkgo tree and a metaquoia that has been growing here since 1959.
In 1958, the park was declared a natural monument.
Eight rare Kaiser Wilhelm apples bear fruit in the garden.
“It just came to our attention then. It is an apple variety discovered in the 17th century in Germany. The Lithuanian apple variety” Vytis “produced by the teacher also grows here, – said the museum director.
After the restoration of the Lithuanian state, after privatization, the Obelynė house was transformed into two plots, one of which, a part of the old garden and park, was sold and planned to develop the construction of residential houses there. The rest of the plot, where the core of the farm is located, is maintained and managed.
The house houses the T. Ivanauskas Memorial Museum.
T. Ivanauskas (1882–1970) is one of the most famous Lithuanian naturalists, founder of the Kaunas Zoo and Museum.
He studied natural sciences at the universities of Saint Petersburg and the Sorbonne.
In 1920, T. Ivanauskas and other scientists founded higher courses, from which Vytautas Magnus University was formed in 1922. In 1923, he and Konstantinas Regelis founded the Kaunas Botanical Garden, in 1929 in Ventė Cape, Šilutė district, a Ornithological station, in 1937 along with others, the Žuvintas Reserve, and in 1938 he was one of the founders of the Kaunas Zoo.
The University of Padua in Italy had awarded T. Ivanauskas an honorary doctorate. He also taught at the Vilnius University, the Academy of Agriculture and the Kaunas Medical Institute.
The naturalist has organized scientific expeditions to 12 countries. He and his wife Honorata organized the first National Bird Day and tree planting festivals in Lithuania, during which the pine forests of Petrašiūnai, Panemunė and Lampėdžiai were planted, and the slopes of the Nemunas were planted.
T. Ivanauskas is considered a pioneer of nature conservation not only in Lithuania, but also in Europe. He was one of the first to speak about human damage to nature, the need to protect rare species, not destroy the environment.
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