Tadas Ivanauskas Zoological museum

Tadas Ivanauskas Zoological Museum in Kaunas is one of the oldest museums in Lithuania. It is the only systematical zoological museum of an academical type in the Baltic states. The museum was founded in the former Nature Research Station in Kaunas on 19 July 19199formal date of its foundation).all the activities of the museum are closely related to its founder, T. Ivanauskas. On 16 December 1970, after T. Ivanauskas death the museum was named after him.
The historical past of the museum is very rich, full of various events that greatly influenced the development of natural sciences and culture in Lithuania.
The sources of the museum reach the year of 1861 (actual date of its foundation). It was set up on the basis of personal collections of Leonardas Ivanauskas accumulated in the former province of Vilnius, Lyda District, Lebiodka Farm (present Belarus) in the second half of the 19’th century.
These collections later became the basis of the zoological museum in Kaunas. There are still kept in the museum (in its depositories and on display) seven stuffed birds made 140 years ago, two skulls of wolf, one of fox, and three of lynx. In 1892 Tadas Ivanauskas joined his father with youthful eagerness and started collecting various animals, mostly birds, for the collection of Lebiodka Farm. In 1914 there were about 1000 specimens in the collection. In 1919 Tadas Ivanauskas moved these collections to Vilnius and in 1922 he brought them illegally from occupied Vilnius to the Nature Research Station in Kaunas. Thus the zoological collections from Lebiodka Farm became the Kernel of the zoological museum.
The period of 1922-1940 is perhaps one of the most important in the history of the museum, its further activities, development and structure. On 16 February 1922, after Kaunas University had been founded (in 1930 renamed after Vytautas...

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