This open-air photographic exhibition is mounted to remember and to remind people about the major shock to humanity 100 years ago – the outbreak of World War I. The exhibition focuses on Kaunas City during the years of war. At the beginning of the 20th century Kaunas City was surrounded by an impressive defensive ring […]
Read more: 2014 05 01 – 2014 10 31 TRACES OF WORLD WAR I IN KAUNAS
In 2014 we commemorate the 140th anniversary of President Antanas Smetona’s birth and 70 years from his death. This exhibition presents a short, however the most dramatic episode in the President’s life – the forced retreat from Lithuania and the last years (1940–1944) spent in exile. The President departed to Germany in the middle of […]
Read more: 2014 08 07 – 2015 02 22 LIVING IN HOPE: PRESIDENT ANTANAS SMETONA IN EXILE
Death is a pitiless partner: when called to the dance, it claims eternal possession. This is a merciless verdict of the symbolic cartoon “German Tango” by the Dutch painter Louis Raemaekers. The painter delivered about 1,000 works on World War I and is one of the most prominent cartoonists of this war who largely contributed […]
Read more: 2014 06 27 – 2015 06 28 TANGO WITH DEATH: WORLD WAR I IN LOUIS RAEMAEKERS’ CARTOONS
The exposition is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Office of the President of the Republic of Lithuania: it explains the circumstances under which this institution was created, how it changed and evolved in the First (1918–1940) and the Second (since 1990) Republics of Lithuania. The greater part of the exposition […]
This open-air photographic exhibition is dedicated to the legendary pilots Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas, who were the first Lithuanians to fly over the Atlantic Ocean 80 years ago. Unfortunately, their plane “Lituanica” crashed 650 km to their final destination point. Huge crowds in Kaunas waited in vain for pilots’ plane to land on July […]
Read more: 2013 05 01 – 2013 10 31 IN LITHUANIA’S NAME! THE TRAJECTORY OF DARIUS AND GIRĖNAS’S LIFE
The exhibition is dedicated to the conscious women of the First Republic of Lithuania (1918–1940). With the equal civil rights legitimatized in 1922 Constitution, Lithuanian women worked actively in various spheres of social, political and cultural life that were not properly taken care of by the young state still in the process of creation. The […]
Read more: 2012 07 04 – 2014 04 01 STATESWOMEN: SERVING OTHERS AND COUNTRY
This open-air photographic exhibition features moments from eight Lithuanian Agricultural and Industrial Exhibitions organized in Kaunas, the provisional capital of interwar Lithuania, between 1922 and 1936. These exhibitions attracted thousands of people from all over the country; peasants spent several days in their carts traveling to the provisional capital. Organized by state, these exhibitions were […]
During the period of the First Republic of Lithuania (1918–1940), traditions of national sports culture were being created alongside the state modernization processes. From yard to European champions, from inter-town to inter-state championships – for more than a decade of slow improvement the evolution of sports culture in Lithuania accelerated in the 1930s as sports […]
An open-air photographic exhibition features moments from the National Olympic Games of Lithuania in 1938. More than 2000 Lithuanian athletes from all over the world took part in the First National Olympic Games held in Kaunas the provisional capital. The Games were perceived as a symbolic expression of Lithuanian unity and solidarity. A symbolic run […]
Read more: 2011 05 17 – 2011 10 31 OLYMPIC KAUNAS: NATIONAL OLYMPIC GAMES OF LITHUANIA 1938
The opening ceremony of the outdoor exhibition “Let’s take a ride! Urban means of transport in the provisional capital” took place on Friday, May 21st, 5 p.m., in the midst of Kaunas city festival. This year our traditional open air exposition of old photographs focuses on the variety of transport used in the city from […]
