Opening times
Tuesday to Saturday 10.00-17.00.
Additional
services
Reservation of excursions;
Keeping of a book for excursion reservation;
Sending of educational material to schools.
Museum’s
collection
The Museum stores 2889 exhibits, including about
1196 exhibits in the
main fund.
The Museum keeps some furniture, articles, books, which once belonged to
the writer, as well as relicts and photographs related to the writer's
personality, creative and cultural activities.
Exposition
The former rooms are preserved in the writer's house: the authentic
study, the family parlor. The previous sleeping-room is equipped with the
main stands reflecting the writer's creative, scientific and social
activities.
Writer's
study
By means of personal relicts, furniture, photographs, documentary
material and library, the writer's cultural, creative and scientific
activities are shown, as well as his work as an editor.
Parlor of the writer's family
The accumulated exhibits tell about the writer's origin, his
studies at the Vilnius Ecclesiastic Seminary, his marriage and family
life.
Hall for seminars and conferences
In the former sleeping-room a small hall is installed for seminars
and conferences. Here the visitors are familiarized with various moments
from the writer's life fixed in slides and film tapes. You may hear the
writer's voice, as well as reminiscences of famous men of literature and
culture about V. Kreve.
Exhibitions
The Museum arranges exhibitions on literature, scientific works, and
editorial activities of the writer and his gathering of folklore, as well
as review exhibitions, rehearings of people who once knew the writer and
other events.
Cultural, educational
activity
Organizing of evenings of artistic reading of V. Kreve creative
works;
Organizing of literary afternoons;
Celebration of the writer's important dates;
Organizing of lectures and conferences on topics related to urgent issues
in the writer's creation;
Realization of educational programs.
Other news
about the Museum
The Museum is established in the house where since 1940 up to emigration
lived V. Kreve Mickevicius. Ruta and Rimas Grigai developed the conception
of restoration of rooms and foundation of the museum according to
descriptions of the apartment and purpose of rooms, sent by Ona Aldona
Krevaite, the writer's daughter. Julius Masalskis, the architect and
artist, developed the expositional equipment of the interior.
The founder of the Museum is the Vilnius City Municipality.
Vincas
Kreve-Mickevicius
Vincas Kreve-Mickevicius (1887-1954) is a 20th-century writer whose
work is often difficult to place. He was not afraid of controversy, got
into trouble with the seminary in Kaunas where he was a student until he
was expelled, and later fell foul of the inter-war independent government.
He wrote many stories based on Lithuanian mythology and legends. In his
woke he sometimes dealt with the plight of rebellious individuals.
He lived from 1940 in a building on Tauras Hill where several other
important literary and cultural figures lived, including Vincas
Mykolaitis-Putinas and the writer Balys Sruoga.
The museum contains a wealth of information about, and photographs of, the
writer, about his time in the seminary and about his experience teaching
in Baku in Azerbaijan and in the United States. It holds copies of his
books, his typewriter and even his pen.
