Dionizas Poška Baubliai Museum

The museum was installed in a trunk of a thousand-year-old oak tree by a writer and historian Dionizas Poška (1765-1830). There were many oak trees in the area. In 1812, Dionizas Poška  ordered the peasants to cut down a dying oak, which was almost 1000 years old (12.5 m in diameter). The men worked all day. The tree trunk was cut into three parts, in order to make it easier to drag, the inside of the thickest off-cut  was carved and rolled to  D. Poška’s manor.

When the trunk had been rolled into the yard, the writer installed an alcove inside.  After putting a thatched roof, cutting out windows, and installing a door, he set up a small room in the oak trunk, and called it Baublys.  D. Poška gave the second piece of the trunk to Bishop Giedraitis, but the further fate of this alcove is unknown. From the third part, he had two three-inch-thick boards cut, one of which he offered to Vilnius University, and if it refused, it had to go to Kražiai Gymnasium. From the third board he wanted to make a table. People called the oak Baublys because the wind roared in its deep hollows.