Description:
Liubavas watermill is one of the few buildings that remains from the former Liubavas Manor, located just 10 km outside Vilnius. The overall aim of the project "Restoration of Liubavas Watermill and its Adaptation to Museum" was to preserve the watermill and to make it accessible to the public through adaptation to museum. The project has been implemented from 30 June 2009 to 28 February 2011. The watermill, a construction of cleaved stone, was built in 1902. It stands out by its architectural, engineering and aesthetic value. The building has not been in use for many years and it was under risk of falling apart. Hence, it required urgent and complex efforts of conservation and restoration. The building itself as well as entire technological equipment and specific landscape characteristics has been thoroughly restored to retain authentic values of the watermill. Traditional techniques, skills and building materials, typical to the period of construction of the building, have been used. Historical, archaeological, architectural, ethnographic, engineering and other researches enabled to achieve maximum level of authenticity. Moreover, they provided with material for an exhibition, which has been designed and installed in the final phase of the project.