When Lithuania declared and regained independence, Kaunas became the provisional capital of the country. The city was growing and prospering, and various state and private institutions were getting established. In the city, a relatively broad layer of intellectuals and ‘white collars’ was forming, and it led to the development of the new habits of life. […]
The exhibition Redde quod debes: State Awards of the Republic of Lithuania 1920–1940 presents the most important State Orders and Awards protected from damage and saved at the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art. After Lithuania’s occupation in 1940, some of the property of State institutions was transferred to museums. In May 1941, Pijus Bielskus, Chancellor […]
It is the fifteenth time that the Historical Presidential Palace has celebrated the International Museum Day (May 18) with a new picture exhibition in its garden. This time, the city residents as well as visitors will be given the opportunity of casting a glimpse at the city from the historical perspective of the palace standing […]
A new exhibition opens on July 6th to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the opening of the Historical Presidential Palace to visitors. Confided memories: People, Things and their Stories – thus entitled exhibition presents the most valuable artifacts donated by people and various organizations during those 15 years. The exhibition poses questions and tries to answer them from both […]
Read more: 2020 07 06 – 2023 05 31 CONFIDED MEMORIES: PEOPLE, THINGS AND THEIR STORIES
This year an open-air exhibition of archive photographs commemorates the centennial anniversary of the Lithuanian Constituent Assembly. It tells us more about the elections, the first gathering of the Assembly and its main reforms during a two-year term. Constituent Assembly was the first in Lithuanian history democratically elected parliament – constitutor of the nation’s will, […]
This year, the history of the Institution of Presidency in Lithuania already counts a century. Marking this occasion, an open-air exhibition of archive photographs “Whoever is a president? The Presidents of Lithuania and the Institution of Presidency in Lithuania in 1919–1940” is being exhibited in the front garden of the museum. It tells us more about […]
Preceding the 2019 Year of the World Lithuanians M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art dedicates a new exhibition “The Great Gift to Lithuania” to the 125th Anniversary of a famous America Lithuanian Collector Aleksandras Mykolas Račkus. The exhibition is opened in the Historical Presidential Palace of the Republic of Lithuania in Kaunas. Two collections […]
Read more: 2018 06 07 – 2020 06 05 THE GREAT GIFT TO LITHUANIA
This open-air photographic exhibition features the key moments of the First Republic of Lithuania. Dedicated to the centennial of the modern Republic of Lithuania this exhibition highlights political, economic, social and cultural achievements of the two decades of a young independent state. The following photos are on display: Election to the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania […]
To get acquainted, to understand and to take pride – this was the slogan of the Historical Presidential Palace at the outset of the 5-year-project “Waiting for the Centennial: the Most Significant Events of the First Republic of Lithuania.” The team of the museum was the first to focus on the approaching centennial anniversary of the […]
In the year 2015 we are celebrating the 130-year anniversary of the birth of Aleksandras Stulginskis, the President of Lithuania. When sharing memories of his friend, Reverend Mykolas Krupavičius wrote: “Stulginskis was performing his presidential duties as expected, honorably as well as beneficially for Lithuania. From aside it looked as if he had been born […]
