The Historical Presidential Palace invites you to one more class of the history of Lithuania which we will be running for half a year. This time, we will take a look at the forms which the inborn commitment of women to take care of others took during the interwar period. In the garden of the […]
Read more: 2025 05 18 –11 06 Open-air exhibition “Not just Bystanders”
The exhibition Our Choices: An Invitation to Take a Look at Four Generations of Lithuanian Politicians welcomes the visitor to take a closer look at the people who, at different periods, created our country and got it established on the worldwide stage. As the starting point, the two generations rebuilding the State of Lithuania in […]
For the first time in Lithuania, the exhibition presents a fragment of the entirety of the images of the ghetto and its inhabitants, and the most important artists who created them: the Kaunas resident Jacob Lipshits, the German of the Polish origin Peter Gadiel, the Palestinian Esther Lurie and the Prague resident Josef Schlesinger. Through […]
Read more: 2024 06 20 – 2024 09 01 Kaunas Ghetto: Reality and Memory
In 2024, when we are commemorating the anniversary of 150 years since the birth of Antanas Smetona, President of the Republic of Lithuania, it is to him that the Historical Presidential Palace in Kaunas is dedicating its 18th open-air picture exhibition. The new exhibition of archival pictures reveals the transition of Antanas Smetona as a […]
With the approaching anniversary of 150 years since the birth of Antanas Smetona, the President of the Republic of Lithuania, we kindly invite to transfer the passionate debates raging in the society regarding the assessment of Smetona’s political activity into a cozier environment which has been professionally prepared for such discussions – to the exhibition Antanas […]
Read more: 2023 06 14 – 2024 06 14 ANTANAS SMETONA: TOUGH DECISIONS
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, […]
