Address
35 M. K. Ciurlionio St, LT-66164, Druskininkai.
Tel. +370-313-52755, 51131.
Fax +370-313-52755.
E-mail
MKCmemorialm@takas.lt
Opening times
Tuesday to Sunday 11.00-17.00.
Additional services
Excursions can be booked by telephone (+370 313) 52755.
Museum's collection
The museum contains a memorial exhibition illustrating M. K. Ciurlionis'
biography and photographs, documents, reproductions of the artist's works, as well as a collection of works dedicated to
M. K. Ciurlionis by contemporary artists from different countries.
Exposition
Authentic living atmosphere of the artists' family is restored in two little houses of Ciurlioniai family, expositions reflecting painter and composer
M. K. Ciurlionis'
(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. Ciurlionis.
Cultural, educational activity
Delivering lectures;
Film reviews;
Pleinairies of painters;
Summer concerts.
Other news about the Museum
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. Ciurlionis 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.
The 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. Ciurlionis 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
