CONTENTS
EDITORIAL COLUMN
R. Budrys.
Word To The Reader
PROBLEMS, OPINIONS
N.
Kersyte. The Strategy of Museums and Cultural Heritage
G. Dremaite. Preservation Of Cultural
Values In Extreme Situations: Problems, Solutions
A. Ruseckaite. Literature Museums: to Be or to
Perish?
PROGRAMS, PROJECTS
V.
Satkauskiene, I. Seliukaite. National Registry Of Traditional Cultural
Values And Museums
L. Jablonskiene. National Art Gallery - Modern
Museum In The New Center Of Vilnius
N. Puteikiene. Ten Days with Dolphins Change the
World
COOPERATION
Z.
Manzuch, A. Glosiene. Governing of the Cultural Heritage in Europe: the
Main Strategic Documents
D. Varnaite. Museums And The Monuments: the
Contact Points
NEW MUSEUMS AND
EXPOSITIONS
V.
Saduikis. Invitation to the Lithuanian Museum of Energetics
A. Veilentiene. The Former Presidential
Palace (1918-1940): the
Use and the Perspectives
V.
Pagrizauskaite. New Exposition In Ch.Frenkel’s Palace
Z. Dargaite. The Exposition In The Manor Of
Dziuginenai
IN THE EXHIBITION
HALLS
A.
Bieliuniene, R. Subatniekiene. Lithuania In Maps
E. Komkaite-Baltusnikiene. Cuba, Looking with the
Eyes of the Stones and Waters
Exhibition Dedicated to the Presidency of Greece
in EU - in Vilnius Art Gallery
Exposition for the Duke of Polish Poets
R. Gudyniene. The First Exhibition of the Church-Art in Utena
Ethnographic Museum
EDUCATION
A.
Jomantas. Lithuanian Museums in the Days of European Heritage
V. Petruseviciene. The Jubilee of Anzelmas
Matutis in Alytus
A. Kazlauskas. The Amateur Theatre of Pasvalys
Land: the Life of the Prominent Ecclesiastics of the Land is Reborn
K. Vaitkuniene. Palette of the Sounds of Music
- in the Drawings of the Children
N. Baroniene. The Nalsia Museum to the Community of Salcininkai:
Turning Back to the Years
of the Past
COLECTIONS
V.
Paplauskiene. Formation and Accummulation of Collections of Exile
Writers
V. Mazrimiene. The Exhibition of the Collection
of Chicago Gallery in Kaunas
M. Petrauskiene. Wealth in the "Alka"
Museum
IN THE WORKSHOPS OF
RESTORERS
D.
Jonynaite, J. Lukseniene. Preservation of the Sacral Art: Research,
Conservation and Restoration
ABROAD
M.
Mierzwiński. Malbork Castle Museum in the UNESCO’s World
Heritage List: the
Beginning of the Great Way
ANNIVERSARIES
R. Balza. 80
For “Ausra” Museum: History and Today
E.Mikalajunas. 75 For “Serla” Museum: The Past And The Present
Z. Kastelianovaite. Ten Years of the Activitieso f the Lithuanian
Volunteers Museum
IN MEMORIAM
Albinas Balciunas
(1928-2003)
Petras Stauskas (1919-2003)
Birute Banyte-Ziuteliene (1932-2003)
The Bulletin Of
Museology
OFFICIAL NEWS
CHRONICLE
Exhibitions
And Events. January - February - March
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Articales In
Periodicals
Publications Of Museums
NEW
PUBLICATIONS
The Library
Association Of Lithuanian Museums
The
Strategy of Museums and Cultural Heritage
Dr. Nastazija KERSYTE
The Institute of Culture, Art and Phylosophy
Traditionally, the
role of Lithuanian museums is treated narrowly in the intitution,
strategy of preservation of heritage. Museums are more assocoated to
the preservation of material cultural heritage, of movable cultural
values. But there are symptoms, clearly reflected in Kernavė
Cultural reservation and museum with the harmony of the mental spaces,
images and events, witnessing the beginning of the transformation of
the traditional museums into the new ones. New museums, taking care of
patronage of immaterial and material, ethnic cultural heritage,
changing not only traditional evaluation of the museum in the
organisation and the strategy of cultural heritage, but, also, the
conceptual treatment of the patronage of the cultural heritage.
Literature
Museums: To Be or To Perish?
Aldona RUSECKAITE
Maironis Museum of Lithuanian Literature
The exhibition of The
Warsaw Museum of Adam Mickiewisz “The Epilogue of the Storm” was
shown in Vilnius, Radvilų Pallace in January-March 2003,
dedicated to the prominent Polish poet, dramatist, essayist Zbiniew
Herbert. It is excellent example, created by Polish museologists, how
to creatively, interesting could be held the presentation of the life
of an artist, his intents, ideas. It was stated in the annotation of
the exhibition, that we nearly don’t have yet such an example of the
presentation of Lithuanian writers in the movable exhibition. This
stimulated the development of the discussion.
The director of the Maironis Museum of Lithuanian Literature, who has
worked in the literature museum for 25 years, shares her thoughts
about the problems of the presentation of Lithuanian literary heritage
to the society. In her opinion, because of computerisation, it could
be bravely predicted, that the character of the work of literary
museums will have strongly change, as there will be a need to create
an idea, how to open the writer without manuscripts, without letters,
maybe, even with the internet-book. Besides this, even if technically
it is not difficult to present Lithuanian writers, it is risky to
arrange movable exhibitions. The main barrier for movable exhibitons
is, that creative works of our writers, even if they are good ones,
are rarely translated into other languages and is not understandable
to foreigners.
Preservation
of Cultural Values in Extreme Situations: Problems, Solutions
Grazina DREMAITE
The State Commission of The Preservation of Monuments
The State Commission
of the Preservation of Monuments made a decision “About the
preservation of cultural heritage in cases of the war and extreme
situations” in November 15-th, 2002, after The Seimas (Lithuanian
Parliament) ratified UNESCO’s Hague Convention of year 1954 about
the Preservation of Cultural Values in case of the armed conflict. The
decision was prepared in October at the special seminar, based on the
resolution carried by the representatives of ministries, departments,
libraries, archives. The main statements of the decision are:
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The Government
is requested to approve the register of the cultural values, to
be preserved in cases of war and extreme situations,
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To prepare the
topographical maps, marking the most significant cultural values
to use the maps while planning the operations in time of war and
peace,
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To prepare the
special instructions about the participation of the military
forces rescuing the objects of the state importance - cultural
monuments in cases of disasters and catastrophes,
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To organize the
marking of the objects with the special signs provided in the
Hague convention in the zone of the military operations,
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To organize the
seminars and training courses for persons, who do work with
cultural values and the officers of the special services about
the rescue of cultural values in cases of extreme situations,
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To prepare the
project for dangerous cargo transport to make a detour of the
teritories of cultural monuments.
Ten
Days with Dolphins Change the World
Nika PUTEIKIENE
Manager of the Division of public relations, Lithuanian Sea Museum
Lithuania Sea Museum,
under initiative of the Director Aloyzas Kazdailis started a rare for
this kind of institutions experiment - a dolpgin terapy, in Autumn,
2002. Research, made by scientists of USA in 70-ties of XX-th century,
approved the positive infulence onto the psyche of children, who has a
authism, The Dawn syndrom. Dolphin terapy nowadays is practiced by 100
medical centers and dolphinariums in USA, Egypt, Germany, Holand,
Italy, Bahama islands and other.
Seven afalines of the Black Sea live in dolphinarium of Lithuanian Sea
Museum, four of them participated in the seanses, which took place in
the end of September - beginnging of October last year. They were
communicating with two children - seven year old boy, who has authism
and the ten year old girl, who has Landau-Klefner decease and
epilepsy.
Every child met dolphins for ten times - seanses were bout half an
hour long. Children were communicating with dolphins from the
platform, the animals were participating voluntarily - they were not
stimulated with fish, as in cases of tricks. Dolphins willingly came
closer to the children - pushed the with the rostrum (nose), they
allowed to carris them, were making the sound. The results were more
than the doctors and parents expected.
The seanses of the dolphin therapy are taking place in dolphinarium of
the Sea museum again from the March. There was a decision made that
this year the most of attention will be devoted for the children who
has authism, after the three-party agreement was signed between the
museum, The Sailors Hospital and The Klaipėda University.
National
Art Gallery - Modern museum in the new center of Vilnius
Lolita JABLONSKIENE
Manager, National Art Gallery
The Government agreed
to the concept of Lithuanian National Gallery in September, year 2002,
according to which, in the new administrational and business center,
which is going to be established on the right bank of Neris river, the
new modern gallery will be open in 2007, presenting Lithuanian Art of
XX and XXI centuries. The constant exhibition to show it’s
development exhaustively does not exist.
The building of the future gallery is build in 1980 after the project
of architects Gediminas Baravykas and Vytautas Vielius. Formerly, the
Museum of the Revolution of LSSR functioned there. The building was
passed to the Lithuanian Art Museum in 1991, in 1993 there was a
brunch of a museum open - National Art Gallery. Currently, the
exposition is not functioning - because of the emergency technical
stage of the building (it was never repaired) and because of the
space, non-adequate to the requirements raised for the modern museums.
The Government foreseen to give a part of the financial means for the
reconstruction of the building from the state budget and the
Governmental Programme of Investments. Lithuanian Art Museum will try
to get the support for implementation of the project from structural
funds of European Union.
National
Registry of Cultural Values and Museums
Vida SATKAUSKIENE
Vice-director of the Lithuanian
Center of Folk Culture
Irena SELIUKAITE
Specialist, Ministry of Culture,
LR, Division of Professional and Amateur Art
Thousands of
ethnographic exhibits from all Lithuanian regions are picked up and
preserved in Lithuanian museums. More than 1,5 mln items of folk-art -
in the Institute of Lithuanian literature, Folklore Archive. This is
one of the biggest folklore archives in Europe. The funds of the
museums and archives are continuously supplemented.
It was started to prepare the implementation of programme National
Registry of Traditional Cultural Values from 1999. This is a part of
ste state policy in the field of ethnic culture, crearifing the
significance of the spiritual heritage of the nation, which, because
of the fragility and qick decay requires to concentrate avery possible
means to preserve the values. This registry gradually has to
supplement the system of preservation of monuments of the country,
until the current monet oreinted onto the material heritage.
The implementation of the programme is coordinated by The ministry of
Culture, Republic of Lithuania, it is implemented by the
municipalities of regions and towns, in cooperation with the
institutions of ethnic culture (Lithuanian Center of the Folk Culture,
Institutes of Literature and Folklore, Lithuanian History, high
schools and so on). The concept of the registry is prepared on the
basis of the functioning systems of registries in Lithuania, also,
methods of the UNESCO lists of the World Immaterial Masterpieces and
the system “Live Riches of Mankind”, implemented by this
organisation.
Governing
Of The Cultural Heritage In Europe: The Main Strategic Documents
Zinaida MANZUCH,
Vilnius University Library
Dr. Audrone GLOSIENE, Vilnius University, Department of Communication
The initiatives of the
governing of the European cultural heritage are deeply connected to
the efforts to create the integral European informational space, based
on the new technologies and enabling to implement the ideas of united
Europe, to develop the infrastructure of businesses and and the public
services to enhance European commercial abilities, to improve the
quality of life of the citizens.
The active discourse about the governing of the cultural heritage on
the European level started in 1998, when 5-th framework Programme for
Research and Technological Development was initiated. Thematic
Informational Societies Programme included in the Sixth Framework
Programme consolidated and developed the work of ACTS, Espirit and
Telematics programmes. The sub-theme - Multimedia Content and Tools -
appeared within thematic IST programme; the one of the main fields of
this block of programmes is Digital Heritage and Cultural
Content:Digicult. The attention is mainly directed towards the
libraries, archices and museums, as these institutions, connected into
the network, guarantee the full access to the cultural heritage. The
main priorities of the research are: to give access to the libraries,
museums and the archival funds; to develop the governing of the
contents, using modern methods of presentations and governing;
preservation of and the access to the multimedia contents and tools of
various kinds, including digital materials and surogats of the fizical
objects. In response to the purpose formulated in the Action Plan
of Electronic Europe, “to create the mechanism of governing
of digitalisation programmes on the European level”, the Lund
principles were stated in 2001, which are, up to now, one of the main
strategic documents in the field of cultural heritage. Lund principles
and Lund Action Plan define the continuing activities previsioned in
the strategic purposes, are created on the basis of the Scheme of the
Action Plan of Electronic Europe. The cultural and science heritage
defined in the Principles is treated as the value of integral Europe,
bringing a hudge contribution into the development of Europe; that’s
why it is vitaly important to preserve and to give access to the
cultural heritage resources. The experts of the cultural heritage
stated the obstacles for the preservation of the cultural heritage and
the access to the cultural heritage in the process of the formation of
united Europen policies and foreseen the ways to overcome them.
Museums
And The Monumentology: The Contact Points
Diana VARNAITE
Director of the Department of
Preservation of the Cultural Values
The main results of
the activities of the Department of Preservation of Cultural Values
Department of The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania and
the results of cooperation of Lithuanian Museums are presented in this
article.
The Department tooks care of every building, which is recognized a
cultural value, so that it would have an owner and that the best use
of this kind of building is the cultural one.
This is, why the Department financed the restoration and management of
the objects, which belong to the museums. The conclusion about the
works of cultural heritage management is that the best results are
reached, cooperating all possible financial sources. Even if only the
most necessary works of rescuing of the buildings are done because of
the lack of financial sources, in some cases fully-restored buildings
are given for the needs of the museums, it was a success, as it was
sponsored by the regional municipalities.
The Department cooperates closer and closer with the museums
implementing international programs during the last years: the
Department organizes European Council’s yearly programme “Days of
European Cultural Heritage” and cooperates in the monitoring group
of the cultural heritage of the Baltic sea countries. The Days of
Heritage are held to get society, and first of all, schoolchildren,
acquainted with the little known areas and objects of cultural
heritage and the museums usually are the organizers of thematic
excursions and exhibitions. Lithuania in the group of monitoring of
the seashore zone is represented by Jonas Genys, Director of the
Museum of History of Lithuania Minor. The group of monitoring of
cultural heritage of the Baltic Sea countries works in several
directions (heritage underwater, seashore zones, observation of
historical buildings in practice, historical towns); the final result
in some themes - cooperative projects to apply for support from
European Union funds.
Invitation
To The Lithuanian Museum Of Energetics
Vilius SADUIKIS,
Director, Lithuanian Museum of Energetics
Lithuanian Museum of
Energetics was open in February 15-th, celebrating 100 anniversary of
the opening of Vilnius central electric power station. Founders of the
museum are: Vilnius Municipality, National Association of electric
power (NEEFA) and Lithuanian Association of Suppliers of the Heat (LSTA).
The Museum was founded in the former building of the central power
station. Vilnius was important industrial, strategic and
administrative center on the North-West border of the Russian Empire.
The railway was build via Vilnius in 1862 and the economic and
political life of the town revived. The authority of the town decided
to invent the electric lighting and needed the central electric power.
The electric power station was build in Petrozavodsk street (currently
- Rinktines street) on the right bank of the Neris river in February
14-th, 1903 and started to supply the electric power.
The power station survived during the two World Wars, it was
reconstructed in Soviet times and adopted to supply electricity to the
neighboring quarters of the town. The Turbogenerators of the power
were stopped in 1981 as the machinery was worn out and it was not
purposive to repair them. The electric power produced 1 064 billions
kWh of electric energy during years 1903-1981. The Ministry of Culture
of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic declared the power a
historical (technical) monument of the local importance, preserved by
the state in 1982.
The Museum occupies the entire space of the power station.
Turbogenerators of the beginning of the XX-th century are exhibited in
the Hall of Machinery, boilers of the 3-rd and 7-th decade of the
XX-th century are displayed in the boiler-room, the control-panel of
1925 is in the control-panel room. Except the mentioned machinery,
there are many electric motors of the previous century, a number of
electric measurement-equipment, also, number of drafts and books.
The
Former Presidential Palace (1918-1940): The Use And The Perspectives
Audrone VEILENTIENE,
Vytautas Magnus Military Museum,
Manager of the Sector of the Presidential Palace
The simbolic
celebration of the opening of the restored Presidential Pallace of the
period between the WWI and WWII was held in February 16-th, 2003, with
participation of three Lithuanian Presidents: former president
A.Brazauskas, President V.Adamkus and the elected President R.Paksas.
Kaunas Vytautas Magnus Military Museum is planning to open the
exposition to put the light onto the development of Lithuanian State
and diplomacy in 1918-1940, commemorating 750-th anniversary of King
Mindaugas Crown in July 6-th, 2003.
Lithuanian President’s rezidence was in Kaunas, in the former
building of the Government, while Vilnius was united to Poland in the
period between the WWI and WWII. It was the House of Teachers in this
building in the Soviet times, and, after the requirement of the
inhabitants of the town of Kaunas, the building was transmitted to
Vytautas Magnus Military (named Kaunas Historical Museum) as it’s
brunch.
The Museum took the initiative to establish the exposition here to
reflect the history of Lithuanian State in the period between the WWI
and the WWII. The Sector of the Presidential Pallace was organized in
1992 and has worked only in this direction. The hardest work was to
pick up the information about the building. It was a success to
ascertain the image of the main audience-hall and the Presidential
office-room, what gives an opportunity to rebuilt and to refurnish in
the style of that time.
The conception of the future exposition was created during the decade:
the history of the Lithuanian state of the period between the WWI and
the WWII in the prism of the internal and foreign policy. The
following themes of the exposition are foreseen: the rebirth of the
Lithuanian State in 1905-1918, Presidents of The Republic of
Lithuania, The History of Lithuanian Parliaments, The History of
Diplomacy of the Republic of Lithuania, The Work of The Prime
Ministers and the Cabinets of Ministers.
The restoration of the Presidential Pallace was started in the Spring,
1998, and was finished this year. Five expositional halls will be
equipped on the ground floor, two exposition-halls - on the first
floor, also, the conference-hall and the Room of the Current
Presidents to held meetings with the representatives of the authority
and inhabitants of the town while visiting the town of Kaunas. The
Museum will provide, also, the space for the more numerous meetings
could be held in the halls of the Museum.
New
Exposition In Ch.Frenkel’s Palace
Vita PAGRIZAUSKAITE,
Siauliai Museum “Ausra”, Manager of the Division of the art
The exposition “Provincial
Manor and town in the end of XVIII century - beginning of XX-th
century” was presented to the public on the 80-th anniversary of
Šiauliai Museum “Aušra” in Ch.Frenkel’s Pallace in the
beginning of March, 2003. Gentry-culture was dominating in Lithuania
in the end of XVIII century - beginning of XX-th century, as in the
other Central European countries, even if it was treated as a strange,
brought from Poland and everything what was not concidered as
Lithuanian, was associated only to the folk-life. This was the reason
to represent the Manor-culture as a part of national culture, to
underline the interaction of the town and the willage, transmitability
of the universal cultural values, especially actual in the province,
where gentry was closer to the peasant’s rythm of life.
The manor is the only of this kind in Siauliai, and the only of a few
in Lithuania, a characteristic example of the modern architecture,
build in 1908. The building of a manor is a part of a new exposition.
The exposition uses the layout and the decour of the walls of the
building. Exhibitors refused of the use of the show-cases, which
limits the possibilities of exposing and have chosen the mixed method
of exhibiting, the methods of interior and of the gallery. The stylish
image of the manor was created to show the everyday life of the manor
and the mode of life of the gentry, taking the background of the
functional allocation of rooms: the guest-room, the cabinet-library,
dinning-room. There were three interior-halls formed: The Library and
two Guest-rooms, The Yellow and the Blue ones, also, Man’s-room and
the Wooman’s-room; there were, also, four gallery-halls formed: The
Hall of Oriental Art, The Hall of Monarch’s, The Hall of Portraits,
the Hall of Gentry and the Hall of Gallery, to expose the collections
of the art. The first floor of the Ch.Frenkel’s Pallace is currently
under the reconstruction and there will be the continuation of the
exposition “The Town of the Province” arranged. Two halls will be
devoted to the exhibitions. There will be, also, a café, and the
informational center.
The
Exposition In The Manor Of Dziuginenai
Zita DARGAITE,
Vice-director for science, Samogitian Museum “Alka”
The exposition “The
Manor of Dziuginenai: Important Center of Cultural Life of Samogitia”
was open in Telšiai Samogitian Museum “Alka” in September 27,
2002.
The manor of Dziuginenai is knwn from XVI-th century, located in 3 km.
distance from the town of Telšiai. The informational exposition of
three parts is held now on the second floor of the house of the manor
by the musologists of “Alka” museum.
The first part of the exposition presents the moments of life of 7
Samogitian manors, displaying preserved materials from Dziuginenai,
Siraiciai, Plunge, Rietavas, Vezaiciai, Plateliai manors. The exposed
photographs show the times, when the manors were the cultural
fire-places of the culture of the country.
The second part is devoted to Zemaite, the classic of Lithuanian
literature, who lived in Dziuginenai in years 1864-1865.
The third part presents the moments of life and the creative work of
the researcher of the Samogitian folk-art Jozef Perkovski (1896-1940).
There are copies of his graphic works and photographs exposed here.
Lithuania
in Maps
Aldona BIELIUNIENE, Ruta
SUBATNIKIENE
Curators, Lithuanian National
Museum
The exhibiton
functioning in Lithuanian National Museum “Lithuania in Maps” is
associated to the two important dates: 750-th anniversary of King
Mindaugas Crown and 390-th anniversary of the composition of the first
map of The Great Lithuanian Commonwealth, made by Lithuanian
specialists. It was a wish to show through cartographic drawing
Lithuanian historical development from the early primitive maps, which
show the area of the Baltic tribes, untill the modern cartographic
works, created after the recreation of the state in 1990.
Probably, the main group of exhibits consists of “the first” maps:
the map of klaudio Prolemajo “Geography” with the names of the
first Baltic tribes, reconstructed in year 1416; the name of Lithuania
is mentioned for the first time in a map of the Jewish cartographer
Abraham Kreskv of year 1375; Nikolajus Kuzietis mentions GLC for the
first time in XV-th century; the name of Lithuania appears in the
tittle of the map of Mark Benventietis in year 1507; the first
separate map of Lithuania published for the first time by Gerardo
Merkator in year 1595; the first map of GLC composed by local
specialists published by the efforts of M.K.Radvila Našlaitėlis
in year 1613; the first map in Lithuanian language was dedicated to
the travel of a missioner Ermonas Švelnius to Africa in year 1876.
The other groups of the exposition: unique publications of XV-XVIII
centuries (books and atlasses) with the maps of Lithuania; military
cartography (siegs, battles, plans of the fortresses), plans of the
towns and manors; maps of Eastern Prussia and Lithuania Minor,
illustrating Germanization of the country of Lithuania; professional
cartography of XX-th century.
Cuba,
Looking with the Eyes of the Stones and Waters
Eglė KOMKAITE-BALTUSNIKIENE
Vice-director for exhibitions, National M.K.Ciurlionis Art Museum
The exhibition “Cuba,
Looking with the Eyes of the stones and Waters” functioned in the
Art Gallery of the National M.K.Čiurlionis Art Museum in February
28-March 30 year 2003. There were works of Tania Bruguera, Rene
Fransisco, Luis Gomez and works of groups of artists Los Carpinteros
and Ordo Amoris Cabinet exposed.
Cubean art intrigues the Western World because of the cultural
self-isolation of the country. Artists and groups participating in
this exhibition are manipulating with the art in the background of
special cultural limitations and obstacles. They are going into the
“deeps of metaphores”, breaking the ancient Cubean streams of art,
which, for the first, were based on the visual storytelling or
slogans. But creators without double meaning give a message for the
members of the audience about their geopolitical environment and
express their critical thought in allusions.
The other very interesting phenomena of the Cubean art - the union of
artists into the groups or a group creative work. The art started to
move away from the politics about 1990-ies and became more individual,
but many of the artists express their individualism in the group
creative work. For example, Rene Fransisco, even if he is paricipating
in this exhibition individually, he has created a group Galeria Dupp,
Alexandre Arrechea, Marco Antonio Castillo and Dagoberto Rodriguez -
that’s a trio of artists, named Los Carpinteros, and Frasis Acea and
Diango Hernandez - duet, known by the name “Ordo Amoris Cabinet”.
Exhibition
Dedicated to the Presidency of Greece in EU - in Vilnius Art Gallery
The first event
dedicated to the Presidency of Greece in EU in 2003 - the exhibition
open in Vilnius Art Gallery “Kikos Lanitis, Gianis Michas: two
aspects of Greek abstraction”.
K.Lanitis - fond of experimentation with the material and technique,
tried his strength in various fields of art, recently immersed in the
painting. G.Michas - the member of the Council of Visual Art of
Greece, the geometrism and constructivism of the avant-garde art of
Greece of 70-ies is revealed in his creative work. The paintings of
the both of the artists are of huge format, that’s why they are
exposed in four halls.
Exhibition
for the Duke of Polish Poets
The Polish Institute
in Vilnius, Adam Mickiewizc Literary Museum in Warsaw and Lithuanian
Art Museum opened the exhibition “The Epilogue of the Storm” in
Radvilų Pallace in January 17-th, year 2003, dedicated to the
Zbigniew Herbert 1924 - 1998)- a prominent polish poet, dramatist,
essayist, who was reputed a moral authority of the Polish society.
Not only the themes of the creative work of the poet were exposed in
the exhibition brought to Vilnius, but, also, it was an attempt to
show the personality through the atmosphere of the different periods
of his life. This exhibition - excellent example created by the Polish
museum specialists, how creative and interesting could be presentation
of the life of the artists, his intents and ideas.
Lithuanian
Museums in the Days of European Heritage
Alfredas JOMANTAS
The Department of Preservation of Cultural Values
The Days of European
Cultural Heritage, which are organized by the Department of
Preservation of Cultural Values (DPCV) of The Ministry of Culture of
the Republic of Lithuania, will take place for ninth time in Lithuania
in September this year. The events are dedicated to acknowledge the
society to the cultural heritage of the country, to show, what is
usually is not accessible to the society, or actualize one or another
region of cultural heritage.The theme of year 2003 will be called “Historical
towns: the old and the modern”. The most expected is the attention
of the schoolchildren to this programme, to attract them to care of
culture of their own and of European countries as well. At the same
time, the events, taking place in various places in Lithuania - the
matter of care of many institutions and organisations. In the article
the discussion of editorial board with coordinator of the Days of
Cultural Heritage in Lithuania A.Jomantas about the participation of
Lithuanian museums in the Days of European Cultural Heritage.
The
Jubilee of Anzelmas Matutis in Alytus
Vilmantė
PETRUSEVICIENE
The Museum of Anzelmas Matutis
It would be 80 years
for a writer, children poet Alzelmas Matutis (1923-1985) in January
7-th, 2003. Writer Anzelmas Matutis was born in Marijampolė
district, Zomčinė village. He graduated The Teachers
Seminarium in 1942 and went to work in Dzūkija. He settled in
Alytus in 1950. He worked as a teatcher of Lithuanian language and
literature until 1972. He wrote more than 30 books, won two prizes,
and, was awarded with an international H.K.Andersen Honorary Diploma
for a selection of his poems “The Mottley Woodpecker’s Smithy”.
Writer lived and created in Alytus for more than thirty-five years
(1950-1985). And The Memorial Museum of Anzelmas Matutis, a brunch of
Alytus Ethnographic Museum, is established here, that’s why all of
museum specialists of the town felt the obligation and responsibility
to take their part in the events, dedicated to the Jubilee of a poet.
The cycle of events started with the conference “80 for Anzelmas
Matutis”. It was organized by The Alytus Town Municipality and
Alytus Ethnographic Museum.
After the conference, it’s participants were invited to Alytus
Ethographic Museum, were the exhibition “The Life Is Listing His New
Books Again…” was waiting. There were photographs, publications,
manuscripts, things belonged to the poet exposed in it.
The competition of children reciters of the Republic took place in
January 10-11-th in Alytus. More than two hundred schoolchildren from
14 towns and regions throng to the final tour of the competition in
The Alytus Town Theatre. The Alytus Town Municipality and The Memorial
Museum of Anzelmas Matutis gladdened children with newly published
book of A.Matutis “The Rainbow Draws A Lake”. This selection of
poems appeared for the first time in year 1958.
There were calendars of the year 2003 published with the poems by
A.Matutis, which were illustrated by the town’s schoolchildren,
Jubilee posters, marking all events dedicated to the poet.
The
Amateur Theatre of Pasvalys Land: the
Life of the Prominent Ecclesiastics of the Land Reborn”
Albinas
KAZLAUSKAS
Museologist, Pasvalys Land Museum
Pasvalys Land Museum
amateur theatre renovated publicistic prformance “Let Us stand and
Grow…” about three Lithuanian cultural actvists, priests and man
of literature Antanas Vienazindys (1841-1892), Julijonas
Lindė-Dobilas (1872-1934) and Mikalojus Seizys-Dagilelis
(1874-1950). All of them derive from Pasvalys Land. This performance
was build more than a decade ago and well evaluated by the audience,
but after, many new texts appeared about these persons, special
monographic works about personalities of A.Vienazindys and P.Linde-Dobilas.
That’s why the director of the theatre Gintaras Kutkauskas decided
to renovate the performance, to develop it and to make clear some
moments. The main characters were entrusted to Vytautas Stragys, who
created distinct characters on the amateur stage for a number of
times, a dean of Radviliškis parish, Gintaras Jonikas, played a part
of Linde-Dobilas.
This performance was played for 15 times, also, there was build for
few times another publicistic performance about the beginninf of the
literary work of Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė “Lighthouses
Shining in the Dark”, the production of the theatre “The Rise
(returns in two parts)” about the public activist Petras Vileišis
win the prise of “The Golden Bird” in 2001 and was performed on
the stage of The National Drama Theatre.
Palette
of the Sounds of Music - in the Drawings of the Children
Kristina VAITKUNIENE
Museologist, Musicologist, M. and K. Petrauskas Museum of Lithuanian
Music
Mikas and Kipras
Petrauskas Museum of Lithuania Music implements the project of
integral art training for children “Music and the Art” from
November, 2001. More than half of a hundred of schoolchildren from the
J.Naujalis Music Gymnasium participated in five concerts of the
project, trained by 30 pedagogs. The musical compositions from various
epochues for violin, violoncello, grand piano, flute, fagot, hautboy,
French horn, saxophone sounded at the concerts. The children who
listened to the concerts have heared interesting stories about musical
instruments, gained various knowledges about the forms of music (one
concert was addressed to the schoolchildren of the high classes). All
of this experience was very sincerely transmitted by more than 1000
children in their drawings, exhibits, shown in the exhibitons “The
Colors of Music” in the J.Naujalis Music Gymanasium and, also, in
their training institutions. One of the events of the project, a
concert-discussion, was dedicated to disabled children.
The project is continued in year 2003, as this is stimulated by live
interest of the children and the enthusiasm of pedagogs.
Formation
and Accummulation of Collections of Exile Writers
Virginija PAPLAUSKIENE
The Maironis Museum of Lithuanian
Literature
The Heritage of the
poet of the poet and the priest Maironis was the first collection of
Maironis Museum of Lithuanian Literature.
His testamentary wish was implemented - the museum of his name was
established in 1936. The director of the museum, poet Bernardas Brazdzionis
later, during the years of the Second World War, accepted the statute,
in which it was foreseen to accummulate materials about the other
Lithuanian exile writers. There are about 200.000 exhibits at the MMLL
at the present, which reflect the development of the lithuanian
literature from the early times untill nowadays.
The author of the article visited USA for four times from 1989
(study-trips, business-trip). The main purpose - to pick up as much
information as possible, to deepen the professional knowledge, also,
to get as much museum items as possible, which later, as
communicational art-facts, would become a spring of exhibiting and
research. The article acquaints to the intense preparation-work to get
a part of the items museum has , during this trip.
The exhibition entitled “The Newest Exhibits of Exile” is open in
two halls of Maironis Museum from the exile writers’ archives
received and taken here during the study-trip of 2002.
The
Exhibition of the Collection of Chicago Gallery in Kaunas
Vida MAZRIMIENE
National M. K. Ciurlionis Art
Museum
The exhibition of
Lithuanian exile art “Chicago-Kaunas: Lithuania in Dreams” was
open in National M. K. Ciurlionis Art Gallery, Picture Gallery. There
are nearly 100 works donated from collections of The Chicago M. K. Ciurlionis
Art Gallery displayed at the exhibition. The Motto of the exhibition
is strenghtening of national character and national mentality,
ethnical spiritual relations with Lithuania, preservation of
historical heritage and the past. One of the interesting aspects of
the aesthetic interpretations of the relations with the Homeland - the
relation of the generations in the new urban environment and stylistic
co-relation of the Freiburg and the Anerical schools. The school of
applied art, established by V.K.Jonynas, Ecole des Arts et Mettiers
was taking care of the heritage of the national traditions, supported
the survivor of the lithuanian exodo culture, it has a specifi
training tradition, the same as in Lithuania between the wars. The
motivation of the creative work of the painters, who received the
education at New York, Chicago Boston, Melburne high schools, was more
cosmopolitan. The painters of the younger and middle generation base
their work on the forms of pop-art, minimalism and abstractionism, not
only once are oriented to the expressions of A.Warhol, J.Pollock,
G.Mathieu, choosing those imperative notions of imaging, in which the
past lives with the present.
Threasure
in the “Alka” Museum
Marina PETRAUSKIENE
Manager, Division of Phonoteque,
Samogitian Museum “Alka”
Museum specialists
have found about 1000 hidden in the loft glass negatives with images
of the town of Varniai, where images of the wooden houses, courtyards,
by-streets, where close-up photographs were taken, while repairing the
building of the Museum in Telšiai, in 1981. During the reconstruction
of the building in 1999, there were 60 more heavily broken negatives
with the views of Varniai found under the stairs of the boiler-room.
All of those were made by Kazimieras Bogumila, a photograph, who
emigrated to Argentina in 1939, probably, ordered by the museum. The
negatives maybe where hidden by the director of the museum Pranas
Genys during the nazi occupation, as there were images of Jewish
houses fixed in them.
Preservation
of the Sacral Art: Research, Conservation and Restoration
Dalia JONYNAITE,
Janina LUKSENIENE
P. Gudynas Center of Restoration
of Museum Values
The 6-th trianual
conference of restorers of the Baltic countries “RESEARCH,
CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF THE SACRAL ART’ took place in The
Museum of the Applied Art in November 21-23, year 2002. It continued
the cycle of forums started in the monumental exhibiton “Christianity
in Lithuanian Art” of Lithuanian Millenium programme in year 2001.
This conference is, also, the continuation of the triannual
conferences of the restorers of the Baltic countries, started in 1987:
conferences are held in succession by the national restoration
institutions of the Baltic countries: conferences of 1987 and 1996
took place in Riga, of 1990 and 1999 - in Tallin, of 1993 - in
Vilnius. There are specialists of restoration of other states, except
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, participating in them from 1993. There
were 27 verbal and report read at the conference and over 30 case
reports presented, not only summarizing results of the researches,
conservation and restoration of the recent years, but, also, allowed
to look deeper onto the main problem of the restoration of the
Church-art - crossroad, raising from the complicated, double origin of
the works of art, their material substance and sanctity. There is an
overview presented in the publication of the main reports of the
conference.
Malbork
Castle Museum in the List of UNESCO World Heritage:
the Beginning
of the Great Way
Lithuanian
cross-making tradition is currently included into UNESCO list of
immaterial and verbal heritage, Curonian neck - into the list of
cultural and natural heritage, the oldtown of Vilnius - into the World
Hritage list. Kernavė cultural reservation already successfully
overcame the first stage of insertion into the cultural and natural
heritage, laso, Trakai are preparing to the first phasis of the
similar route. Museums are established in many of such objects, this
is why Mariusz MIERZWINSKI, director of Poland’s Malbork Castle
Museum shared the eperiences about the role of the museums and
perspectivesat the scientific conference “Trakai Historical National
Park - in UNESCO’s list of the World Heritage - needs and
opportunities”. Malbork complex of castles was included into the
World lists of cultural and naturas heritage in year 1997. First, it’s
prestige grew: even if the object was well known and often visited by
the Poles themselves, but after the inclusion the foreign press
interested in it very much. Even if the nationals didn’t start to
visit a castle that often, the number of the foreign tourists grew.
Constant reports of monitoring of the objects of of the World Heritage
obligategovernments to preserve the current sitation in them, that’s
why it is easier to receive the state dotations. The inclusion into
the lists does not give direct financial benefit, but, in case of
danger, the UNESCO can finance the rescuing of the object, the
presence in the list can be an important argument to get the money
from foreign funds. One more merit - actively developed educational
programmes: something similar to the laboratory functions in Malbork,
looking for new forms of educational activities, in this object of
World heritage. Except this, the presense in the list strongly
influences the interest of foreign historians and museologists in the
castle and the museum and the cooperation with them.
