Adomas Petrauskas opened the doors of his granary to the first visitors in 1969. At that time, the independently prepared exposition included ethnographic exhibits and archaeological finds. Seeing his great enthusiasm for collecting various antiquities, Vytautas Notkus and Albinas Vaižmužis, the heads of the Antašava collective farm at the time, helped the museum to expand. Self-taught village craftsman Jonas Laužikas designed and built an original building-tower in the museum's homestead. Now the Museum of Adomas Petrauskas consists of a complex of buildings: a residential house, two granaries, a tower and a workshop (padarginė). The museum worker donated all his life's work to the municipality of Kupiškis district in 1996. Thus, the Museum of Adomas Petrauskas, established in the Uoginiai village, became a branch of the Kupiškis Ethnographic Museum. The collection fund of the Museum of Adomas Petrauskas consists of more than 7000 exhibits. Adomas Petrauskas was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Kupiškis Region for the accumulated, preserved and presented spiritual and material ethnic culture in 2001.
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