Ignalina

Collection The collection of the museum comprises research works, household articles of Adomas Hrebnickis (1858-1941), a pomologist and professor of the Forestry Institute of Petersburg, paintings painted by his daughter and other things connected with the professor's life and work. .

Exposition The exposition staged in his memory shows the professor's personal possessions, his working tools, documents, publications, photographs, and pictures painted by his daughter Marija Hrebnicka. A monument to A. Hrebnickis (designed by sculptor Leonas Žuklys) was erected in the reconstructed orchard. .

Professor Adomas Hrebnickis A. Hrebnicki (1857–1941), pomologist, born near Lepel', Belorussia. Graduating from the St. Petersburg Institute of Forestry in 1883, he remained there as an assistant; from 1892–1922 he taught horticulture, and in 1920 he was made professor. Hrebnicki planted a 14 ha orchard in Staniškiai, near Dūkstas, in 1890–1904, where from 1922 he took up permanent residence. In the orchard he cultivated 1 200 fruit trees, comprising apples, pears, plums and two varieties of cherries. Hrebnicki studied fruit trees found in Lithuania, their species, fertility, and resistance to cold; he discovered and propagated varieties until then unknown in pomology, but which grew in Lithuania. From 1939–1941 he was consultant to the Chamber of Agriculture. Hrebnicki published over 100 articles in scientific journals and encyclopedias about Lithuanian orchards, their cultivation, fruit ripening; he wrote the widely popular work The Care of a Fruit Orchard (1892, 7th ed. 1936) and edited the book Catalogue of Fruits (1903–1906). .

Other news The museum was founded in 1961 in the former farmstead of Adomas Hrebnickis (1858–1941), a pomologist and professor of the Petersburg Forestry Institute. In 1898 he built himself a house there, and established a pomological orchard containing 1 197 fruit trees. His best known work is "The Fruit Atlas", which he illustrated himself. Founder of the museum - Ministry of Agriculture. .

Information for Visitor

Opening hours Visits by arrangement
Tel. (+370 ~ 386) 45472,
Mob. tel. (+370 ~ 675) 01 098,
E-mail: renata303[at]gmail.com,
1 May – 1 October:
Tuesday to Friday 9–17,
Saturday 9–16.

Contacts Address:
Rojaus kaimas, Dūkšto seniūnija,
LT-30265 Ignalinos rajonas.
Tel. (+370 ~ 386) 45472,
Mob. tel. (+370 ~ 675) 01 098.
E-mail: renata303[at]gmail.com
Director – Renata Veličkienė.