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Road Museum
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 14 Kaunas street
 Vievis, Lithuania
 Tel: +370 528 2 69 13
 Fax: +370 528 2 69 17


Open on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9:00 to 17:00 hours
  
The Lithuanian Road Museum was opened in Vievis on 19 October 1995 in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the motorway Vilnius–Kaunas. The museum was established in the very centre of the town at the premises of the state company "Automagistrale", and it covers the area of 1,060 m².
The collection of the museum consists of 6,000 exhibits, which reflect the history of Lithuanian road from the Roman Empire up to now. These are models of bridges, viaducts, road intersections, bus stations, production bases and other building and maintenance machines, carts, road signs. There are some unique exhibits in the museum: ancient footwear of the stone-crushers, "chempes", worn to protect feet when crushing stones, the famous "kalamashka", tip-up cart, all main equipment which was used to build the Zemaiciu macadam road ant others.
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Old museum maps, photograph albums of Lithuanian roads are kept at the museum. A number of books, magazines and other publications on road building and maintenance in the Lithuanian and foreign languages have been collected. The museum has a unique book "Irankis pagerinimui ir sutaisymui soseju ir paprastu keliu" ("Implement for Improvement and Repair of Macadam and Ordinary Roads") which was published 100 years ago. The museum has the portraits of S. Kerbedis, P. Vileisis and other famous Lithuanian road engineers. There is also a brass plaque, which was moulded on the occasion of building the bridge over the river Nemunas in Kaunas in 1930.
The stands of the museum present data on the development of the Lithuanian road network starting with the Amber Road, the Zemaiciu macadam road as well as modern motorways Vilnius–Kaunas–Klaipeda, Vilnius–Panevezys, VIA BALTICA and others.
There are a number of samples of building materials, rocks, minerals, crystals which were brought from different parts of the world. Visitors like a small section on hunting and ecology.
Prewar ant postwar road construction and maintenance equipment is exhibited in the metal pavilion: a horse-driven scraper, a two-share plough, a tremendous rotor snowplough and others. A unique authentic horse-driven bitumen-heating boiler made by the Genschel company in Germany in 1854 is exhibited in the museum.
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The veteran road engineer and the Director of the museum Mr Juozas Stepankevicius is one of the founders of the museum. Scientists and students can use the materials collected at the museum for their research.
Almost 5,000 people visit the museum every year. It has had visitors from 25 countries including the USA, Japan, China and others.


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