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KLEBONIŠKIAI RURAL HOUSEHOLD EXHIBITION

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The Kleboniškiai Rural Household Exhibition is an open-air museum covering 18 ha. Here one will see the typical buildings of 28 villages from the 19th and 20th century, moved from the surrounding area. Three farmhouses with ten buildings are owned by the villagers, while the rest belong to the Museum of Rural Life. Expositions are set up in the farmhouses, storehouses, bathhouses, granaries and barns, where the mode of life of the late 19th century farmers has been recreated, and a large 59 60 61 RADVILIŠKIS DISTRICT Radviliškis Tourism Information Centre: www.inforadviliskis.lt SEMIGALLIA, AUKŠTAITIJA HISTORIC LAND – UNKNOWN Panevėžys Šiauliai 107 collection of antique machinery and household utensils (jugs, steelyards, butter churns, oven peels, flax brushes, motors, scales, and planers) is presented. In 2010, the Kleboniškiai homestead was included on the List of Cultural Heritage and was given the level of regional significance. Educational activity “The Linen Road”. Flax is believed to have been cultivated in Lithuania for around 4000 years. The educational activity, using ancient flax processing tools, provides a visual presentation of flax processing, introduces flax cultivation, pulling, head removal, braking, scutching and hackling.

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Lithuania

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Semigallia

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