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The new souvenir sheet which includes a postage stamp of the nominal value of LTL 7 will be issued in edition of 25,000 copies. The philatelic product was created by the artist Vilius Brucas, writes LETA/ELTA.

The souvenir sheet features the historically first museum in Lithuania, Baublys, founded by Lithuanian writer Dionizas Poska in Bijotai town in Western Lithuania in 1812.

The first Lithuanian museum was established inside the carved oak trunk and named after the oak itself, Baublys, then about a thousand years old, called so for a roaring sound of the wind ("baubti") in deep hollows of the trunk. The founder of the museum Poska linked the name Baublys with Bubilas, the ancient Lithuanians deity of honey.

Poska, a Samogitian nobleman, writer and historian, worked and rested in the Baublys. There he placed items of archeological, historical, and ethnographic significance, the ancient deities' images, portraits of famous people and more than 200 books.

The material accumulated in the museum attracted interest of scholars and prominent figures of Lithuanian national revival movement. Song festivals, choir performances, and Maydays were staged in the vicinity of the Baublys.

In 1824, another oak trunk was erected next to the Baublys. In 1969, the Baubliai museum was declared the national monument of historical importance.