The Arnet's House is the tangible heritage of the Scottish community that lived in Kėdainiai during the 17th–18th centuries. The building is an architectural monument.
The House was built in the middle of the 17th century by a Scottish merchant John Arnet next to the Great Market Square, which was the main market place at the time. It is a beautiful example of the urban residential architecture with an authentic exterior and interior layout. There is an impressive vaulted cellar under the house, and, on the first floor, next to the dome-shaped chimney, there is a vaulted room for a toilet, the so-called ‘luftcloset’, which is the only premise of such kind in the residential house of city dwellers that has survived in Lithuania. Later, an Evangelical Reformed Church rectory was established here. From 2015, it houses the Centre of Traditional Crafts of Kėdainiai Regional Museum.
The Tradicional Craft Centre at Arnet’s House offers workshops for adults and students of weaving, sewing of dolls, ceramics, wool felting, wicker weaving, wood carving, tying of thrums, Easter egg decoration, basket weaving and paper cutting. Workshops are run by the certified Lithuanian crafts masters.
Exhibitions of works by talented Lithuanian craftsmen and other events that are dedicated to traditional Lithuanian crafts are organised there on regular basis.
The Centre is open on weekdays from 8a.m. to 5p.m.
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Radvilų St. 21, Kėdainiai
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On weekdays from 8a.m. to 5 p.m.
