And what you won't find when you visit the yard of the Lake Fishing Museum! Let's take a look!
Lake Fishing Museum
In the late autumn of 1988, the Fishing Museum was opened in the outbuilding of the Mindūnai school yard. It was founded by the historian V. Mackonienė. Later, the Fishing Museum became a branch of the Molėtai Region Museum. In the museum expositions, you can see various fishing tools used by the people of Eastern Lithuania at the end of the 19th century, as well as learn about archaic fishing and learn how this business changed. The exhibition is housed in a restored 19th century fisherman's shed and barn. The oldest exhibit in the museum is an impressive 4-meter-long 15th-century dugout canoe. The museum exhibits old eel catching devices, antique nets, automatic fishing rods, etc. Exhibited flax and hemp fibers - the main raw material for knitting nets.
The lake fishing museum houses a collection of various stuffed animals and furs - an exhibition of trophies of Antanas Truskauskas, who hunted on five continents. 120 different stuffed animals and birds are only one third of the private collection he donated to the museum.
The museum also includes more outbuildings: a fisherman's room, a small pantry, fish smokehouses. The yard is decorated with braided fences, flower beds, and old boats. At the end of the 20th century, three roof pillars of the folk sculptor Stasys Karanauskas were built in this area - for crabbing, fishing and the nature of the Mindūnai region. There is a pond with fish swimming nearby.
