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The Bishop’s Birthplace Museum will be administered after the Kretinga district municipality receives 120,000 support funds from the European Union. Eur – from the Rural Development Program. With the help of these funds, the farm buildings will be organized: a viral, a basement in the yard and a barn, and a shelter to rest. The new spaces will be adapted for education, as well as entertaining, providing the opportunity to taste Samogitian dishes.
Violeta Čėsnienė, director of the M. Valančius Birthplace Museum, said the viral: the current small building on the way to the barn will be renovated so that it can accommodate groups of up to 20 people. Provides for the production process of the national heritage products of the Samogitian region.
“We would involve the local community: rural gaspads would teach here how to make casserole, onion, we promise to cook half-shirt porridge, bake pancakes and potato cakes. Already until now, during our traditional festivals: the potato, the laying theaters, the reading of the writings of Motiejus Valančius, the rural women Regina Simonaitienė, Aldona Zaleckienė volunteered to help. By having a viral company, we will develop entrepreneurship: people could order the dishes we produce in advance ”, V. Čėsnienė, who started managing the museum in 2017 after the death of her husband Algirdas Čėsna, shed light on his future activities.
He said the museum is in constant contact with the Kūlupėnai community because the core of the Nasrėnai village is part of it. The people of the old generation have kept many customs and traditions, remember the recipes of parents and grandparents, the games that they will try to revive in the museum.
It will offer accommodation in hay.
Beyond, behind the barn, where the traditional Laying Theater festivities take place, there is a cellar in the courtyard, this way people used to store vegetables. “We are also going to use that basement for education: we will grow cucumbers, cabbages, beets. Young people will be interested to see how this is done. We will offer guests to taste fermented products and people will be able to buy them. And in the wooden shelter from the basement we are going to dry herbs, ancient spices that we will grow ourselves, collect from the fields, many linden trees grow on the farm ”, said the museum manager with joy about the future activities.
In the barn of the house -in the current farm building- it is planned to install a sanitary unit with toilet and shower, as well as 2 educational rooms: one would have looms and weaving lessons, and the other room would be for summer camps for children, events, even hay or straw. mattresses. “If people traveling would like to experience and taste how their ancestors lived, we will give them that opportunity,” said V. Čėsnienė jokingly.
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With the project funds, it is planned to build a gazebo, a gazebo with a roof and a thatched platform next to the barn. According to the museologist, viewpoints are needed so that travelers who visit the farm can sit down, hide from the sun or rain, have a snack.
The museum needs to be renovated
After receiving the investment, V.Čėsnienė said, the design works have already started, and the actual construction works should start in mid-summer and should be completed next summer, within a year.
Future plans are to tidy up the barn, adapting it to the events not only in summer but also in winter, but most of the repairs are needed in the main house, which houses the museum of the birthplace of Bishop Motiejus Valančius. “The house was renovated in 2001, but its exterior has regressed by two decades. This year we will celebrate the 220th anniversary of the birth of Motiejus Valančius, perhaps we can raise the house again to receive the project funds,” expected V. Čėsnienė.
According to her, the exterior lighting should also be installed in the farm-museum, now she hopes that some light will fall when the monument to Motiejus Valančius is illuminated across the street and the oak grove planted next to it remains.
Manages the park and the homes of the community’s seniors.
Under the care of the Kretinga district municipality, maintenance work is already underway in the oak forest park: new paths are being laid out, the parking lot next to the monument will be illuminated and paved. The oak grove renovation is scheduled to be completed this summer.
The reconstruction of the old Nasrnai grandparents’ houses on the edge of the oak grove is also underway: the Kūlupėnai community center “Kūlupėnai” will cost 97.5 thousand. Eur support funds for the installation of community homes for the elderly.
Jūratė Mačernienė, president of the Kūlupėnai community, assured that the building is undergoing major repairs: the facilities are being adapted and being reinstalled, the exterior doors have been replaced, a heating boiler has been built, they have been signed contracts for the purchase of an elevator, furniture, kitchen equipment, etc. “If the crown doesn’t stop, we should finish the project in July,” he said.
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Comment from Jolanta Girdvainė, Director of the Kretinga District Municipality Administration:
– I think it is a great value to have a unique farm in your area, where the spirit of Bishop Motiejus Valančius seems to float. As a result, a group of people came to Nasren to generate ideas, foster initiatives, see what we could do to attract as many people as possible to the museum. Today, museums are no longer what they were, it is not enough to see their exhibitions, it is necessary to strengthen impressions and stimulate the senses. In other words, we have to “recharge” the activities of this museum to make it ring not only in the district, but also throughout Lithuania. Especially since in Nasrėnai, there are great spaces for education, and people passing by will be able to have a snack, relax and play old games.
The joy is threefold, as not only the museum will be renovated, but also the oak grove, and the community’s free senior homes will come into existence. I wish that the rural community becomes more active through cultural and community activities, and that Nasrėnai glorifies the name of the Lithuanian illustrator Motiejus Valančius.
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Nasrėnai is an old street type town, the houses were built at the end of the street. According to V. Čėsnienė, that residential house was on the farm, in 1801. M. Valančius was born on February 16. However, in 1928. the house that now houses the museum has been rebuilt.
M. Valančius was the fourth child in the great family of Marijona and Mykolas Valančiai, but only 5 of their 11 children grew up. After becoming bishop, M. Valančius wrote a silver cross and candelabra in his will for the nearby church of Kalnalis, where he was baptized. . M. Valančius is buried in the Cathedral of Kaunas, and his brother Mykolas – in the old cemetery of Kretinga, his grave is located near the chapel of Jurgis Pabrėža.
On the M. Valančius estate and even in older times they recall a maple, 2 stone wells and a barn with an ethnographic exhibition. The barn roof was covered with reeds in 2016.
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