Viktoro Varno Kelionių Muziejus

V. Varnas started traveling in 1956. Expeditions traveled with students. "In total, 217 people were involved in expeditions until the 1990s, we traveled by boats and bicycles were downloaded to the required point. We trained for the whole year, and during the summer we were able to go on an expedition, with 35 such hikes until the end of the 1990s. going to the commando islands (Russia's islands in the Bering Sea, the Pacific Ocean - Autumn), "said V. Varna. The idea of ​​collecting as many exhibits as possible and creating a museums for the man originated during the first trips. V. Varna is considering that Dionisius Pochas and his fists have been inspired by it. "I was aware of the fact that I was traveling ten times already, and then there was a group of teachers who traveled bicycles around Birzai region to our farmstead in Pasvalys district. Then I would be infected with the idea that I will travel only by bike," V. Varnas said. The collector said that he was cycling up to 80 kilograms in weight. "And I did drop 20 kilograms during each expedition, you know how we eat," said Saulius and the lemonade, "they did not care." It was more interesting to find out what more interesting things they found, some of which I offered, but most of all I bought, "said the collector. He remembered that he always borrowed money before the trip, and then returned all year to a debt. "I was borrowing money for a ticket for a train or a ship, not for a souvenir, but for souvenirs. I was in charge of everything, and then I sent it to Klaipeda, and my wife was bumping into the house. It was used to such a man's crash, it's not a problem," V. Varnas remembers. Altogether 15,000 pieces have been collected in his collection. In addition, 6 thousand have accumulated from travel. films, even footage, 5 thousand. slide show. When asked if he had never thought of selling his huge collection, V. Warren recalled that the Germans who visited his museum had come up with a 2 million mark in Germany for such a collection. "I will not sell it, one needs it, the other - ano. Stomp a piece and no museum" - the collector argued. For a long time, the collection of V. Varnas was placed at the then Klaipėda I vocational school, where he taught military training, then - religion, and then worked as a guard. "It's good that there's a place where I can show people what I've accumulated over the course of my life, because if all of these exhibits fall into a garage for which they are needed then they would have already started rotting," he said, happy that his life was not dead Humorous, old man of porino. PLANS "There are probably two classes for everything to fit in. Especially I want to open a military class, because it's interesting for young people to touch weapons and armor," he said. Plans to expand the travel museums do not stop in the 80-year-old V. Varnas.

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