Antanas Baranauskas Lithuanian poet and linguist, also wrote in Polish. Born January 17, 1835 in the town Anixty (the so-called city of Anyksciai until 1917) in a peasant family. Finished primary school in his hometown and 2-Whitney school clerks in Rumsiskes. In the period from 1853 to 1856, he served in township offices Raseiniai, Skuodas and other towns. Was familiar with the Polish poetess Caroline Proniewski, which was largely determined by the poetic character of the work of Antanas Baranauskas.

Since 1856 he studied at the Catholic Seminary in Varniai, then entered the St. Petersburg Catholic Theological Academy, from which he graduated in 1862. In the period of study at the Seminary became interested in linguistics. I was Lithuanian dialectology and founder of Lithuanian terms of grammar. In 1863-1864 he studied theology at the universities of Rome and Munich. In 1863 he moved away from poetry. In 1866-1884, he worked as a Professor at Kaunas theological Seminary. Here Baranauskas taught homiletics and moral theology. In 1897 he was appointed Bishop of Sejny. Here he died. It happened on November 26, 1902. In Sejny is the tomb of Antanas Baranauskas.

The poet has created a number of poems in Polish. Wrote the poetic work of the 14 songs, "Journey to Petersburg" (1858-1859 ). The most famous and artistically perfect work Baranauskas is the poem "anykščiai forest" (1858-1859 ), which numbered among the classics of Lithuanian literature and translated into many languages. Also Baranauskas has created a didactic poem "the beach and the grace of God" (1859).

Memorial Museum or, as it is also called "cage", Antanas Baranauskas was founded on 1 may 1927. Crate poet and Bishop Baranauskas in 1826 (the date is carved on the lintel) was built by the father of the poet Jonas Baranauskas in Ordinace – a former suburb of anykščiai. The crate is built only with an axe, no saw, and nailed together with oak pegs. In the cage Antanas Baranauskas liked to spend their free time, and, incidentally, it was here that he created his famous poem "anykščiai forest".

In 1921 the relative Baranauskas, writer Antanas Zukauskas-Vienuolis, received a plot of a family of Baranauskas, kept the crate and it founded a Museum of the poet. People began to bring Visualise documents, personal things of the poet, exhibits connected not only with the life Baranauskas, but also with the history of the town of anykščiai. So here was the stupa, spinning wheels, a sword that remembers the uprising of 1863. In the Museum you can see things from the old estate of Baranauskas: steelyard, krinke, braided bast, wooden candlesticks, a crucifix on the wall, Cossack peak, suitcase, purchased in St. Petersburg and had seen almost all European countries. And the oldest exhibit crates – the hope chest, owned by Rosalia – the poet's mother. It shows a little violin, reminiscent of the childhood of little Antanas.

The crate is the first memorial Museum in Lithuania. In 1945 Vienuolis was appointed its Director. After 13 years was built with a protective cover. Died Vienuolis 17 August 1957. And since 1958 in his house was a memorial Museum. On the ground floor there was the exposition telling about the life and work of the writer, on the second memorial of the room.

1 December 1962 crate of A. Baranauskas and the house-Museum of A. Vienuolis - Vienuolis combined into a single memorial Museum these creative people. In 1982 near the building was constructed storage foundations with an exhibition hall and administrative offices.