Chaim Frenkel Villa-Museum
Art Nouveau villa of a Siauliai leather magnate, now a museum with its original interiors.
Chaim Frenkel ran one of the largest leather factories in the Russian Empire, based in Siauliai, and in 1908 he and his wife Dora built a two-storey villa beside the works. The house is among the clearest examples of Art Nouveau, or Secession, architecture in Lithuania, mixing motifs from several historic styles across its facades and keeping much of its original interior joinery, stucco ceilings and stained glass. A landscaped park with mature trees surrounds the building.
The villa served as a school and later a military hospital during the twentieth century before passing to the Ausros Museum, the main museum of Siauliai. Its permanent displays cover the Frenkel family and the city's Jewish industrial community, the interiors and furniture of the period, and Lithuanian art and applied art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The park is used for concerts and an annual summer festival, and it is open free of charge throughout the day.
Highlights
- One of Lithuania's finest Art Nouveau residential buildings
- Original interiors with joinery, stucco work and stained glass
- Displays on the Frenkel family and Jewish Siauliai
- Landscaped park used for summer concerts
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