The Lithuanian museum road returns and invites you to discover the signs of the Renaissance era in our country. The 2024 program is characterized by diversity - events will take place in three dozen different places, and their participants will be able to choose between more than half a hundred events: exhibitions, educational events, concerts, lectures, cultural evenings, readings, excursions, trips and walking expeditions. The program of free events prepared by the museums will continue until autumn, it is organized by the Association of Lithuanian Museums together with dozens of other cultural heritage institutions.
"The Path of Lithuanian Museums has been taking place since 2012 and has already become a beautiful tradition. The uniqueness and success of the project lies in the fact that it unites Lithuanian museums and different regions in a common way of learning about culture and history. This allows the diversity of museums to be revealed, while at the same time helping them discover their visitor. What's more, the Lithuanian museum road takes place in the warm period, when families and friends travel around Lithuania, so it's an opportunity to enrich the experience with quality cultural events", says Marius Pečiulis, Chairman of the Board of the Association of Lithuanian Museums.
In accordance with the main idea of the 2022-2027 cultural heritage dissemination program "Native Europe", the Lithuanian museum road will update the European signs of the Renaissance period in Lithuania. They will help to understand how the Latin civilization and its content penetrated the Baltic identity of Lithuania.
The program includes a variety of events
The organizers assure that these are not traditional museum events. They are created specifically for this program, each museum tries to offer something unique that corresponds to this year's theme. The events actualize the monuments and people of the Renaissance era, and some of the events will take place in cultural heritage objects with Renaissance style features.
"The most valuable Renaissance object in Lithuania is the palace of the rulers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where the opening of the program will take place. The contribution of the Museums of the Palace of Rulers to this year's path of Lithuanian museums is exceptionally high. They will go to the regions, where they will give lectures about this period, conduct educational activities", M. Pečiulis is happy.
More than half a hundred events can be found in the program published on the Lithuanian Museum Road website. People who like to travel attention should be paid to the excursion to Kėdainius organized by the Panevėžys Regional History Museum, the walking expedition of the Užventis Regional History Museum to the Želvii Manor, the bus excursion organized by the Suvalkijas (Sūduva) cultural center-museum of the Vilkaviškis district.
There will be no shortage of museums on the program music and dance: The Kaišiadori Museum in the Kruonis Church will organize the international early music ensemble "Canto Fiorito" a concert, Neringa museums will invite you to the chamber music concert "Indica mihi" at the Thomas Mann Memorial Museum, the Ignalina Regional Museum will host a cultural afternoon with historian E. Gudus and the old dance troupe "Festa Cortese", Duke Mykolas Oginskis Palace will offer you to sit down with a cup of English tea, enjoy the Renaissance period music, William Shakespeare's poetry and historical dances, the Birštonas Museum will invite you to the readings of poems by Jan Kochanowski, the poet of the Renaissance, the secretary of King Žygimantas Augustus, with music.
Traditionally, museums will reveal this year's theme new exhibitions. In the exhibition "Renaissance Cathedral of Šiauliai in Art", Šiauliai "Aušros" Museum will present a large collection of works stored in the collections, depicting Šiauliai's St. the Apostles Peter and Paul Cathedral - the most prominent work of Renaissance Mannerism architecture in Lithuania. The Zanavyki Museum will invite you to visit the exhibition from the collection of the Lithuanian National Museum "Drawings of the Arūnas Eduard Paslaitis Estates", the Vytautas the Great War Museum will present the exhibition "Sarmatian Warriors", the Alytus Local History Museum will introduce the people of Alytus and the city's guests to the finds of the Simno Church in the exhibition "Archaeological Research Findings of the Church of Simnos". surviving iconographic information. Trakai Castle will host the exhibition "Coaks of the City of Trakai - Reflections of the Renaissance", which will exhibit examples of cobbles found during archaeological excavations, showing that Renaissance ideas penetrated the arts of Trakai Castle and its rooms, although this city cannot boast of architectural buildings characteristic of the Renaissance.
Even three different museums in Žemaitia - the Diocese of Žemaitiai, Mazeikiai and Skuoda Museums - will be visited by the traveling medal art exhibition "VIRTUS: What are the trumpets of glory for?" This exhibition draws attention to the fact that it is precisely the Renaissance era that can be confidently considered the beginning of medal art. The medal, formed at this point, soon became a currency of fame, trumpeting the excellent qualities (virtus) of the immortalized person.
The exhibition is organized in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Telšiai Medal Art Makers Camp, the oldest in Europe. The "Alka" medal collection of the Žemaitsi Museum and the inseparable international medal art camp in Telšiai are a unique phenomenon in Europe, protecting and at the same time continuing the traditions of medal-making in Europe. At the same time, it is a panoramic look at the history of Lithuania: from the oldest to the most recent times, from Martyn Mažvydas to Maironis.
Path of Lithuanian Museums "Signs of Europe in Lithuania: Renaissance"
Opening the program event will take place on April 19 In the National Museum in the Palace of the Rulers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
April 19-May 19 events will take place in the museums of Vilnius and Utena regions, May 20-June 23. events will take place Panevėžys and Šiauliai regional museums, June 24-July 28 events will take place In the museums of Telšiai and Klaipėda regions, July 29-August 25 events will take place in the regional museums of Tauragė and Marijampole, August 26-September 27 events will take place In the museums of Alytus and Kaunas regions.
The end of the Museum Road event program will take place on September 27. - World Tourism Day at Raudondvaris Castle (Kaunas District Museum).
