Address
41 Vilniaus St., LT-01119, Vilnius.
Tel. +370-5-2622406.
E-mail: ltmkm@takas.lt
Web Site address: http://teatras.mch.mii.lt/
Founder of the museum is Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
Head of the museum is Regina Lopiene.
Opening times
Tuesday to Friday 11.00-18.00.
Saturday 11.00-16.00.
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Scene from the film "Elze from Gilija",
1999,
Lithuanian Film Studio, Q and Q Medien.
Director Algimantas
Puipa. Jurgaitis –
Kostas Smoryginas, Grunbaumas –
Antanas
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William Sheakspear "Hamlet", 1997,
The
Fort of Art. Director Eimuntas Nekrosius.
Klaudijus – Vytautas
Rumsas.
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Johann Strauss " The blood
of Vienna",
1998, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet
Theatre. Conductors: Jonas Aleksa,
Martynas Staskus. Director and
choreographer Monika Wiesler (Austria).
Duke Ipsheimas – Vytautas Juozapaitis.
Photo Michail Raskovsky |
During the education
program
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Collections
Collections contains different artifacts about Lithuanian theatre,
music and cinema:
- Photographs;
- Music instruments;
- Cinema technology;
- Video;
- Recordings;
- Costumes;
- Memorial things;
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- Drawings of animated films;
- Theatre puppets;
- Sketches;
- Documents;
- Posters;
- Scripts;
- Correspondence.
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Exhibitions,
events
The Exhibition "From
the Collections of the Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum. From the 19th
century to the first half of the 20th century".
Educational
activity
Educational program for schoolchildren of 1-4 classes “Lithuanian
popular fairy-tales in the Puppet theatre”
Departments
There are 5 departments in the museum. They acquire, document,
research and preserve collections, attend visitors, organize exhibitions
and events.
Theater Department
Displays accumulated in the department make the biggest part of the stock of the museum up to now. Valuable personal collections of Borisas Dauguvietis, Konstantinas Glinskis,
Juozas Vaickus, Antanas Sutkus, Andrius Oleka-Zilinskas, Petras Kubertavicius, archival material of Lithuanian theaters of different periods are among them.
One of the oldest displays is eulogy of Vilnius School Theater "Algirdas the Great - Duke of Lithuania" of 1687.
Music Department
The stock of the music department consists of music instruments,
recordings, personal collections and those of music collectives (education institutions, societies, and music theaters).
Valuable personal collections of Juozas Naujalis, Antanas Kacanauskas, Juozas Bendorius, Juozas Pakalnis, Konstantinas Galkauskas, Kipras Petrauskas, Jadvyga Jovaisaite-Olekiene, Antanas Zauka, Juozas Grybauskas.
There is some material about Fiodor Saliapin, Lithuanian emigrant musicians.
A collection of music instruments of 18-20th century is interesting and rather rare which includes precursors of a gramophone - mechanical music instruments made most often by the famous J. H. Zimmerman's enterprise.
Quite many folk wind instruments, kankles (Lithuanian stringed instrument) made by local masters have been accumulated. A rich collection of violins, cymbals, accordions, concertinas.
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A musical automatic machine.
"Fortuna", the end of the 19th
century, Germany. Zimmerman's
enterprise AM
1462
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A painter Kazys Simonis.
A portrait of an actress Une
Babickaite (cir.1936-1938).
Pasteboard, tempera 51,7x41,2.
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A musical automatic machine.
A little playing table. The end
of the 19th century, Germany.
"Piano
melodica", Zimmerman's
enterprise AM 1405
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Art Department
The most significant and the biggest part of the displays of the Art department consists of creative and biographical material of Lithuanian scene-designers of the 20th century or of those who worked in Lithuania. Those are sketches of the scene, costumes and technical drafts, models of the scenery, costumes of characters, articles of properties. One can find here creative works of our first professional scene-painters
Vladas Didziokas, Vladimiras Dubeneckis, Adomas Galdikas, Adomas Varnas, Mstislavas Dobuzinskis, Liudas Truikys, other famous scene-designers of the past and these days.
Memorial things having belonged to prominent workers of theater and music are kept in the museum; valuable art works are among them (paintings, sculptures, furniture, and candlesticks).
An interesting collection of portraits of famous artists in paintings, sculptures and graphic works as well as in ex-libris is there in the museum. Personal collections of scene-painters contain many written and photo documents.
Cinema Department
Cinema department was founded in 1992, when the museum became
independent. It contains artifacts about Lithuanian feature, animated and
documentary films. The biggest part of artifacts is in the Lithuanian film
studio collection. It contains photographs from feature films, portraits
of cinematographers, posters, advertising material. A collection of cinema
technology is interesting. The most valuable part is heritage of one of
the first cameraman Stepas Uzdonas, containing cameras made in 1930-1970,
film copying machine of “Arnold and Richter”. There is a video
collection in cinema department with almost all Lithuanian animated films.
Library
In the museum library side by side with books, periodicals there are copies of directorial productions, notes, and
claviers,
impressive collection of playbills.
History
The origin of the Lithuanian Museum of Theater, Music and
Cinema dates back to 1926 when two famous lithuanian writers Balys Sruoga
and Vincas Kreve founded the theater museum within Kaunas university.
Material collected by a Lithuanian theater worker in Petersburg Antanas
Jasudis became the first collection of the museum. Later the museum was
moved to the State Theater. Disturbance of the war and post-war period
deranged the activity of the museum; many artifacts disappeared. The
museum was renewed in 1957. In 1964 it became a branch of the Lithuanian
Art museum and was renamed into the Lithuanian Museum of Theatre and
Music. In 1992 the museum was renamed into the Lithuanian Museum of
Theater, Music and Cinema. In 1996 it moved to a newly restored premises
of Radvilai palace which in 1795-1810 used to house the Public theater of
Vilnius.
Photographs from the stock of the museum
