Juozo Gruodžio namai

About the museum

On the edge of Žaliakalnis, by the Eigulių hill-fort, since 1932 stands a wooden house resembling a Lithuanian manor, where the composer, conductor and teacher Juozas Gruodis lived with his wife Stasė. The house was designed by the well-known interwar architect Feliksas Vizbaras. After the composer’s death, Stasė Gruodienė lived alone in this large house for more than two decades.

In 1967 a music library and a memorial room of the composer were set up here, and in 1974, through the efforts of Stasė Gruodienė, the J. Gruodžio memorialinis muziejus (J. Gruodis Memorial Museum) was established as a branch of the K. Petrausko memorialinis muziejus (K. Petrauskas Memorial Museum). Since 2013 it has been one of the five branches of the Kauno miesto muziejus (Kaunas City Museum).

In the two-storey house visitors can see four rooms: on each floor there is a memorial and an exhibition space. On the ground floor the couple’s living room has been recreated; on the first floor there is a sunny music room with a small balcony. The exhibition “Mano darbas taurus” (My Work Is Noble), opened in 2014, tells about the composer’s studies in Moscow and Leipzig, his creative work, his teaching and the life of the Gruodis family. Its most striking part is the collection of figurines that Stasė Gruodienė folded from sweet wrappers.

Highlights

• Memorial living room and the composer’s room
• Exhibition “Mano darbas taurus” (My Work Is Noble)
• Figurines folded by Stasė Gruodienė from sweet wrappers
• Wooden house designed by F. Vizbaras
• Picturesque garden and the surroundings of the Eigulių hill-fort

Permanent exhibition

• Mano darbas taurus – More than 200 exhibits reveal the most important stages of J. Gruodis’s life and work and the everyday life of the Gruodis family.

Founded

1974

Operated by

Kauno miesto muziejus

Admission & discounts

Free admission: On 16 February, 11 March, 6 July, during the events of the International Museum Night, and on the Saturday of the Kaunas city birthday festival.

Free admission for pre-school children, pupils and accompanying persons, orphans, recipients of social assistance, persons with disabilities and accompanying persons, persons aged 80 and over, foreigners who have left Ukraine, Lithuanian museum workers and ICOM members (on presentation of a document). A 50% discount applies to students, pensioners, victims of occupations, freedom fighters, soldiers and riflemen. Tickets can only be paid for in cash at the box office.

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible: not available
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Visiting the museum and its exhibitions is not adapted for persons with disabilities.

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