By order of the Minister of Culture, the name of the Lithuanian Folk Household Museum is changed to the Lithuanian Museum of Ethnography.
"Ministry of Culture and the attitude of the museum staff agreed that the old name no longer corresponds to the values and attitudes of this age, new activities of the museum, which more deeply present the living history and customs of the nation. The new name, which was chosen by the museum staff themselves, is more concise and more precisely describes the content of the museum's expositions, existing collections of museum values and activities," says Vice Minister of Culture Rimantas Mikaitis.
The new name of the museum will come into effect after it is registered in the Register of Legal Entities, and the regulations of the museum will be changed accordingly by order of the Minister of Culture.
The museum near Rumšiškių was founded in 1966 and opened to visitors in 1974. It is one of the largest open-air ethnographic museums in Europe.
