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konstantinas čiurlionis memorial museum
Contacts
Address:
M. K. Čiurlionio g. 35, LT-66164, Druskininkai.
Tel./fax (+370 ~ 313) 52 755.
Tel.: (+370 ~ 313) 51 131, (+370 ~ 313) 55 831.
E-mail: info@smic.lt
Information for
Visitor
Opening hours:
Tuesday to Sunday 11–17.
Admission:
adults – Lt 4;
pupil, student and OAP – Lt 2.
Additional services:
Excursions can be booked by telephone (+370 ~ 313) 52 755.
Collection
The museum contains a memorial exhibition illustrating M. K. Čiurlionis'
biography and photographs, documents, reproductions of the artist's works,
as well as a collection of works dedicated to M. K. Čiurlionis by
contemporary artists from different countries.
Exposition
Authentic living atmosphere of the artists' family is restored in two little
houses of Čiurlioniai family, expositions reflecting painter and composer M.
K. Čiurlionis' (1875–1911) creative work, biography and family life is
arranged in the other two buildings.
Museum keeps contemporary painters' collections of works devoted to M. K.
Čiurlionis.
Cultural, educational activity
Delivering lectures;
Film reviews;
Pleinairies of painters;
Summer concerts.
Other
news
The museum was founded in 1963 in the home of the artist and parents, and in
which he lived sporadically from 1890 to 1910. It was in Druskininkai that
M. K. Čiurlionis wrote his symphonic poem The Sea ("Jura") and painted the
series The Grass-Snake Sonata ("Pavasario sonata") and created many other
works.
Druskininkai Resort
Open the whole year round, Druskininkai is a climato-balneopelotherapic
health resort. The town is at a distance of 130 kilometers from the biggest
Lithuanian cities Vilnius and Kaunas. It is the only health resort in
Europe, which is surrounded by the widest territory of old pine groves,
which grants the special harmony for human soul and body.
The mineral waters of Druskininkai gush out from time immemorial. According
to the decree of the king Stanislov August in 1794 Druskininkai is announced
as a treatment place. Today 8 sanatoriums invite you here.
Wonderful nature, mineral water baths and mud treatments soothe nerves, give
tone to a man's muscles, make more active the vegetative functions, improve
metabolism, secretion and motor functions of stomach, regulates the activity
of bowels.
History of
the Spa
Druskininkai, resort town in southern Lithuania, on the Right Bank of the
Nemunas.
Forests, mostly pine, surround the town from all sides. Mineral springs gush
forth on the banks of the Nemunas. Fragrant pine forests and natural mineral
water have made the place an all-year-round resort, where people come for
cures, to rest and take their vacations.
According to a decree of King Stanislas Augustus in 1794 Druskininkai was
proclaimed a place with curative properties. Professors of the University of
Vilnius did research into the chemical structure of the springs from
1821-1835.
A plan to set up a health resort in Druskininkai was approved by the
government in 1837; the following year 14 bathrooms were opened and a
hospital was built. In 1843 about 2 000 patients underwent treatment.
With the growth of the health-resort the small town expanded at the same
time: a Roman Catholic church was built in 1844-1852 and a Russian Orthodox
Church in 1865. In 1884 a park for sunbathing was opened. After a fire in
1894 150 new brick bathrooms were built.
In 1920 Poland occupied Druskininkai, together with a wide strip of the
district of Vilnius. The Poles renovated the equipment fallen out of use
during the war, built new villas, and drilled two deeper wells.
After World War II, with Lithuania left under Soviet occupation, the
health-resort of Druskininkai was considerably enlarged to cater for people
coming from Soviet Union to undergo treatment.
Lithuanian musician and painter M. K. Čiurlionis spent his childhood in
Druskininkai and were later often to spend his summers here writing down
Lithuanian folk songs, composing music and painting.
Illustrations from the collections of the National
M.K.Ciurlionis Museum of Art
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