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MUSEUM OF THE GEOLOGY OF LITHUANIA

Address
Information for Visitors
Additional Services
Museum Collection
Expositions

 



Metamorphic roc boulder (plagiogneisis) from
Siauliai district

 

 

Address
1a Kauno St., LT-21371, Vievis, Elektrenai municipality.
Telephone nr. +370-528-26492.
Fax nr. +370-528-26432.
E-mail: norvaisas@geo.lt  

Information for Visitors
Working Hours: Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Additional Services
Preliminary arrangement of visitor excursions is provided.

Museum Collection
The museum collection consists of a modern mechanized reservoir of core. (The core is a cylindrical rock column, procured by way of column boring. It is a geological record of the place and the main source of geological information.) In Vievis museum the core obtained from over 2-kilometre-depth boring (1.08 l) has been stored (1953-1999), as well as the exposition of field boulders (displayed in the area of 4.20 hectares).

Expositions

  • Field boulder exposition;

  • Polished boulder exposition;

  • Memorial exposition of Juozas Dalinkevicius (1893-1980);

  • Exposition of the minerals of Lithuania;

  • Exposition about the rocks that are forming at the present;

  • Zukelis` paleontological exposition;

  • J. Lisauskas` collection of rare minerals (given to the museum).

 

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