Blacksmith Museum in Klaipėda

The Blacksmith Museum in Klaipėda (also called the Blacksmithing Museum ; Lithuanian Kalvystės muziejus ) is a branch of the History Museum of Lithuania Minor in Klaipėda , Lithuania , which was housed in a former forge.

presentation

Originally, the forge museum was G. Klackė and F. Grimas smithies in Klaipėda. The museum was founded in 1979 by the metal restorer Dionizas Varkalis and officially opened to visitors in 1992. The small blacksmith's museum shows the tools of the former blacksmiths of the Klaipėda region, a small selection of their manufactured items as well as crosses, fences, gates and old weather vanes typical of the small towns of Lithuania and the old cemetery of Klaipėda.

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Web links

Commons : Blacksmith Museum in Klaipėda - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Kalvystės muziejus , created: August 22, 2014. Accessed : August 11, 2020.

Individual evidence

^ Thorsten Altheide et al .: Baltic States. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. 4th edition Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8317-3276-0 , p. 178.

55.7067 21.136992Coordinates: 55 ° 42 ′ 24.1 ″ N , 21 ° 8 ′ 13.2 ″ E

[1] Thorsten Altheide et al .: Baltic States. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. 4th edition Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8317-3276-0 , p. 178.