Easter morning. White embroidered festive tablecloths are pulled from the closet, the quiet preparation for church, the delicious smell of grandma’s cake from the oven, the search for Easter eggs and the melting Easter wax cart in the frost-covered garden. Easter swings and songs. A family gathering and a home filled with an uplifted, festive mood. Miss it? Let’s meet on the 1st of April, the second day of Easter – at the Open Air Museum of Lithuania, where from 11 a.m. the most authentic Easter celebration with customs, traditions and waking spring will take place.

FROM 10 A.M.

Trader’s Fair (Town, roadside of Žemaitija)

12 P.M.

The beat of the church drum will invite you to the mass at the Museum’s Church of Švč. Mergelės Marijos Gimimo.

 

FROM 11 A.M.

Painting Easter eggs. Activity for both youth and grownups – for everyone who can hold a brush in their hand (at Klebonija’s Granary)

Exhibition of Verbos (Easter bunch of twigs) of Vilnius region, created by certified braider Agata Granicka (Church)

Information Center (Tabariškės’ House)

Decorating eggs with wax (workshop) with Vita Tomkutė-Taujanskienė (Tabariškės’ House)

Traditional egg-shaving workshop with Angelė Rauktienė. Education of carved Verbos with Vytautas Rauktis (Tabariškės’ House)

Let’s make music together (Tabariškės’ House)

Collective exhibition of decorated Easter eggs. We invite you to bring your own decorated Easter eggs to the Pušalotas’ House in the Museum’s Town (Pušalotas’ House)

Quiz “Museum in Easter cards” (Pušalotas’ House)

Making Easter cards with Laimutė Varkalaitė (Valsčiaus valdyba’s House)

Easter mail. Send an Easter greeting, a handwritten word is always warmer! (Post Office)

Easter papercraft workshop with Rasa Rainienė and her papercraft exhibition (Plungė’s House)

Presentation of the meals of the Easter table (Plungė’s House)

Holiday gingerbread (Bakery)

Photo studio (Žeimelis’ House)

“Trade” in the interwar period store (Žeimelis’ House)

Coining (Town Square)

Easter basketball (Town Square)

 

ŽEMAITIJA

Guest of the Museum – Easter Granny (Užbradumė Inn (at the roadside))

Swinging songs led by folklore ensembles “Bitula”, “Verpeta”, “Žilvita”

Kas lalauna, terbon krauna” – Easter wishes of Lalautojai (young Easter singers) – ensemble “Žilvita”

Exhibition of Easter tables in homesteads “Have a blessed Easter” (Gintališkės and Darbėnai Farmsteads)

Egg-dyeing with natural dyes (Įpiltis Farmstead)

Kite workshop (Godinga Farmstead)

Public health office of Kaišiadorys city and Police officers of the Kaunas County Chief Police Commissariat with a friend of the Lithuanian police, Amsis (Godinga Farmstead)

 

Easter games

Egg-rolling on a rolling ramp (Darbėnai, Gintališkės and Įpiltis Farmsteads)

Egg-rolling with sticks – who rolls further? (Gintališkės Farmstead)

Easter golf (Darbėnai Farmstead)

Daužavimas (egg-cracking), quest for the gifts of the Easter Granny (Kartena Farmstead)

 

NEXT TO THE MILL

Rolling the Cosmic egg

Windmill workshop “Spins, spins a windmill”

 

SUVALKIJA

Exhibition of Easter tables in homesteads „Have a blessed Easter“ (Obelinė Farmstead)

“Living mountain” – exhibition of living heritage: geese, ducks, chickens, turkeys and rabbits (Obelinė Farmstead)

Horse-drawn carriage ride: from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (break from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.)

Easter games

Easter egg carrying over a log (Obelinė Farmstead)

Egg-rolling on plains and rolling with a target (Obelinė Farmstead)

Relay race with carts for families – who is faster? (Obelinė Farmstead)

 

AUKŠTAITIJA

Exhibition of Easter tables in homesteads “Have a blessed Easter” (Kirdeikiai and Gyvakarai Farmsteads)

 

DZŪKIJA

Exhibition of Easter tables in homesteads “Have a blessed Easter” (Rudamina Farmstead)

 

FROM 3 P.M.

TOWN

The final part of the event will take place in the Town Square, where fun dances with a folk orchestra of  Kaišiadorys’ city cultural center, , “Geri vakarai” and folklore ensemble “Žilvita” await. Moreover, there will be drawing of winners of the collective Easter eggs’ exhibition and the awarding of five lucky winners.