Current Exhibitions - Istorinė Lietuvos Respublikos Prezidentūra

Ekspozicija „Rūmų istorijos“ – kelionė per 7 epochas! / Exhibition

The historical palace commonly known as the residence of the Presidents of Lithuania (1919–1940) has reshaped itself. Time portals will take you to seven epochs: the Governor’s Palace, the Ober Ost Commander’s residence, the Presidential Palace, the house of the Supreme Council Presidium, Nazi Headquarters, the Teachers’ House and the revived historical palace. The motley […]

The modernized and updated exposition introduces the Presidents of the First Republic of Lithuania (1918–1940) in traditional and innovative ways. Three presidents took the presidential oath of office: Antanas Smetona spend the whole 15 years in this office; Aleksandras Stulginskis – 6 years (including 2 years, when as the Chairman of the Constituent Seimas he […]

A permanent historical exhibition of representative portraits, pieces of art that originally decorated the interior of the Palace, gifts to the Presidents, surviving authentic furniture, historical pictures recording the Presidents’ foreign and internal activities, public activities, pictures from personal life and many more things that tell the story of the First Republic of Lithuania (1918-1940).

Deeply Honored to Greet: Presents to Antanas Smetona, President of the Republic of Lithuania

This exhibition presents the gifts which were bestowed to Antanas Smetona, President of the Republic of Lithuania, and which ended up being transferred for storage from the Presidential Palace to Kaunas National Culture Museum (currently, M.K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art) in 1941. In the transferred collection, there are no presents dating back to the […]

Open-air photo exhibition “President Antanas Smetona: between Authority and Authoritarian”

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 […]

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 […]