Art in Lithuania: Exhibitions & Artists

[Aunt Hilda]

When Alexander and Napoleon were friends.. heh, good find. A very important moment of European history.

Btw, did you know that the peace of Tilsitt (clearly favouring the French) was signed shortly after La Grande Armée completely annihilated the Prussian Army in Iena?

Jena, not Iena

and yes, I did.

[Baluarte]

La bataille d'Iéna!
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_d'I%C3%A9na

[Aunt Hilda]

La bataille d'Iéna!
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_d'I%C3%A9na

Schlacht bei Jena und Auerstedt

[Aunt Hilda]

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Gediminas Castle Tower Exposition

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[Aunt Hilda]

Archaeology Department Collections

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The collections of the Archaeology Department are comprised of nearly 130,000 exhibits excluding flint chips and ceramic shards. The collections consist of the findings from the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages dating back from the 11th millennium BC to the birth of the Lithuanian statehood in the 13th century as well as the material on the burial monuments dating back up to the 16th century. In 2000, a big archaeological exposition containing over 4,000 exhibits was opened in the National Museum of Lithuania.

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Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology Collections

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The collections contain over 180,000 archaeological findings from the investigations of medieval and post-medieval archaeological monuments performed throughout Lithuania. The archaeological findings dating back to the 13th/14th-19th centuries have been divided into the following three main groups according to the place of their investigation: the Vilnius Castles, Vilnius, and Lithuanian Towns, Manors and Villages. Most of the collections consist of the archaeological material on the city of Vilnius. Although the Department was established only in 2001, the findings collected during the archaeological investigations performed since 1930s as well as during various farm works had already been preserved in its collections. The collections are supplemented constantly with both the findings from archaeological investigations and accidental finds

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Ethnic Culture Department Collections

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Ethnic Culture Department Collections
The greatest national collections reflecting the ethnic peculiarities of the Lithuanian folk culture, peasant trades, crafts and everyday-life are stored in the Ethnic Culture Department of the National Museum of Lithuania. Currently, the collection consists of approximately 60,000 exhibits such as the objects of traditional peasant culture dating back to the end of the 19th – the 1st half of the 20th centuries, wooden sculptures of the saints, memorial monument tops, domestic appliances, means of communication, furniture, work tools, clothes, and homespun cloths. The collections have also been supplemented with iconographic material, drawings, photographs, and ethnographic descriptions.
The oldest museum-pieces were taken over from the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Stephen Bathory as well as from the Lithuanian Scientific Society. Many of the exhibits were collected during the ethnographic expeditions organized since 1949. Also, a number of them were acquired from private persons. From the middle of the 20th century, the best works by folk artists interpreting creatively the traditional ornamentation and colouring have been accumulated in the Department. The works include national clothing, sashes, wedding straw decorations (Lith. sodai), baskets, amber and iron articles, wood carvings, and the fine arts pieces.

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Iconography Department Collections

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More than 514,000 exhibits have been preserved in the Iconography Department repositories. The iconography collections of the National Museum of Lithuania have been formed on the basis of the collections of the Vilnius Museum of Antiquities, the Lithuanian Scientific Society and the Society of Friends of Science in Wilno, the Wroblewski Library, and the Belarusian Museum of Ivan Lutskevich.
Following the restoration of independence, the museum collections were supplemented with the collections of the Museum of History of Religions and the Lithuanian State Historical Museum reorganised during the years of the National Revival. Subsequently, the exhibits from the House of Signatories and the Museum of Architecture were also included in the collections.
While organising the supplemented museum collections, the Iconography Department was set up in 1993. The iconographic material preserved in the Departments of History and Ethnography was merged and the following exhibit groups were formed: Philately, Philocartia, Photography and Negatives, Sculpture, and Painting. The accumulated Lithuanian material has been displayed in exhibitions and published in the publications of the National Museum of Lithuania.

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Numismatics Department Collections

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The Numismatics Department was founded in 1967. 181,823 exhibits such as numismatics (i.e. coins, alloys, money hoards), medals, phaleristics (i.e. orders, award medals and badges), philofaleristics (i.e. emblems), and various other tokens, notaphily, counters and circulating tokens, telephone and other cards, seals (i.e. leaden stamps), and the exhibits reflecting the manufacturing process of the aforementioned objects (i.e. sketches, projects, models, impresses and etc.) have been stored in the repositories of the Department.

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History Department Collections

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More than 100,000 exhibits dating back from the formation of the state of Lithuania to its occupation in 1940 are stored in the collections of the History Department. The basis of the Department collections consists of the exhibits from the Museum of Antiquities established in 1855, which reflect the political, social, economic and cultural history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Those are various documents, personal belongings, domestic appliances, weapons, and stamps. The objects related to the history of the city of Vilnius play a significant role in the collections of the 19th century. From a chronological point of view, the material dating back to the 19th - the 1st half of the 20th centuries comprises an extremely great part of the collections.

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[Aunt Hilda]

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[Aunt Hilda]

a pagan shrine and paleoastronomical observatory.

Samogitian Alkas

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[Hercus Monte]

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[Hercus Monte]

[Hercus Monte]