On the Way to Antašava

Museum of Adomas Petrauskas

The village of Uoginiai is famous for a unique museum founded in 1969 by a common farmer Adomas Petrauskas in his farmstead. Various do-mestic appliances, publications, folk sculptures, pho-tographs and autobiographies of celebrities are on display here. The museum is surrounded by a col-lection of bouiders and millstones impressive in size and shape, and trees and bushes brought from the forest and planted by the ovvner.

 

St. Hiacintas (Jackus) Church in Antašava

The wooden church was built in 1862 in the style of folk classicism under the initiative of Albinas Rubavičius. The parish priest used to live in Vabalininkas. In this church you can see wooden statues of the XVIII century and the portrait of the founder-landlady Antašauskienė.

Antašava Mansion

Mansion-house of classicism style was drafted and built according to the project by a well-known architect M. Šulcas. Construction of Mansion-house (1811-1820) had been completed after the architect's death. Mansion-house of Antašava is the only building still existing in Lithuania, created by M. Šulcas.

Picture Gallery of amateur artist Veronika Šleivytė

Artist Veronika Sleivytė was born in a small town of Antašava in 1906. However, her barefooted childhood elapsed in Viktariškiai village. The artistic heritage of V. Sleivytė is over 100 graphic sheets and several thousand crayon paintings (mostly still-lives). The great creative heirloom of paintress V. Sleivytė is spread throughout the country. The most important items of her heritage stay here, in her native land, in the village of Viktariškiai. Paintings are exhibited in the picture gallery which is housed in the former barn. In the shade of centenary limes sits a farmstead of the artist's parents Jonas and Barbora Šleiviai. The authentic household of the large family was recently renewed.

Chapel of Marija Magdelena in Uoginiai village

There is a white wooden chapel in the cemetary of Uoginiai village. It is named after Marija Magdalena and was erected in 1716.
The priest and poet A. Strazdas settled down in Uoginiai and used to hold service in this chapel.

Burial-ground in the Village of Darsiškiai

In Darsiškiai village there is a burial-ground of the rebels, who perished in the revolt lead by Eliziejus Liutkevičius in 1863-1864. Native people call it Little Resting-Place.