A path of daily bread   KULTŪROS PASAS

 

Duration: 1-2 hours
For:  people aged 3 to 99
Place: similar to an authentic nineteenth-century Lithuanian peasant houseModerator: head of educations E. Petrauskaitė and ethnographer R. Jotautienė
Location: the Museum of Prienai Region, 13 F. Martišiaus St, Prienai
Visiting days: Wednesdays and FridaysBooking: time can be prearranged by calling +370 656 37554Minimum number of participants: 15

Fee: 5 euros for children, pupils and students; 6 euros for adults

Bread baked by the Prienai Regional Museum is awarded with the national heritage product certificate
Educational activity:

The educators of this program use etnic costumes, actions and language to illustrate the baking traditions and customs of the peasant household. Participants in the educational program not only observe the baking process, but also participate in this process themselves. They form loaves of kneaded bread, bake them and take their bread out of the museum. In 2020 bread baked by The Museum of Prienai Region received a national heritage product certificate.

 

While bread is being baked, programme participants are introduced to a long path of daily bread, from sowing rye to putting baked bread on the table

 

 

Depending on their age, various groups will be engaged in tasks which will help them feel respect for bread and live out the true meaning of the concept “holy”

The museum is closed during the following holidays:

 

• January 1st. – New Year

• February 16th – Lithuanian State Restoration Day
• March 11th. – Day of Restoration of Independence of Lithuania
• St. Easter (Sunday and Monday).
• May 1st. – International Labour Day
• Mother’s Day on the first Sunday in May
• The first Sunday in June – Father’s Day
• June 24th. – St. John’s Day (Dew and Midsummer’s Day)
• July 6th – Statehood Day (Coronation of King Mindaugas)
• August 15th. – Assumption day (Day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin)
• November 1st. – All Saints Day
• December 24th. – Christmas Eve
• December 25 – 26. Christmas

 

Day before public holidays, the museum closes 1 hour earlier.