Open Air Cinema "La La Land"
Grand Courtyard
Past event2024y.August0809 d.22:30
Musical, Romantic Drama, USA
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Open Air Cinema "The English Patient"
Grand Courtyard
Past event2024y.August0802 d.22:30
Drama, Italy, United Kingdom, USA
Open Air Cinema "Annie Hall"
Grand Courtyard
Past event2024y.July0731 d.22:30
Drama, Romantic Comedy, USA
Justinas Jarutis Concert
Grand Courtyard
Past event2024y.July0726 d.21:00-23:00
One of the country’s most stylish performers, Justinas Jarutis, will close this year’s “Midsummer Vilnius” Festival with a mesmerising performance on 26 July 2024.
Opera Under The Stars
Grand Courtyard
Past event2024y.July0725 d.21:00-23:00
On the evening of 25 July, the unfading love story of centuries, Georges Bizet’s opera “Carmen” will be performed by one of Lithuania’s most talented opera soloists, Edgaras Montvidas, together with the evening’s guests and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Modestas Pitrėnas.
"Naturally 7" Concert
Grand Courtyard
Past event2024y.July0724 d.21:00-23:00
Bringing vocal magic to the stage, one of the world’s most famous a cappella groups, “Naturally 7,” returns to Lithuania.
Martynas Levickis and Mikroorkéstra
Grand Courtyard
Past event2024y.July0723 d.21:00-23:00
An artist who increasingly rarely performs in Lithuania promises that the only show dedicated to Vilnius music lovers this summer will be different.
OKT/Vilnius City Theatre "Othello" (Director Oskaras Koršunovas)
Grand Courtyard
Past event2024y.July0722 d.21:00 - 2024y.July0723 d.00:40
On July 22nd, guests will have a special opportunity to witness the critically acclaimed performance of “Othello” by director Oskaras Koršunovas and his OKT/ Vilnius City Theatre. The play is based on the work of the British classic William Shakespeare.
Hania Rani Concert
Grand Courtyard
Past event2024y.July0719 d.21:00-23:00
Hania Rani, an acclaimed sound aesthete whose live concert recordings garner millions of listens, is making her debut in Lithuania for the first time.
"FC Baseball" Concert
Grand Courtyard
Past event2024y.July0718 d.21:00-23:00
In a debut performance at the “Midsummer Vilnius” festival, the esteemed artist Tautvydas Gaudiešius, also known as FC Baseball, will grace the enchanting stage of the Grand Courtyard at the Palace of the Grand Dukes.
Roe Deers Orchestra
Grand Courtyard
Past event2024y.July0717 d.21:00-23:00
Electronic music producer and DJ Liudas Lazauskas, also known as Roe Deers, with his exceptional style, will fulfill a long-cherished dream this year.
Gabrielė Vilkickytė Concert
Grand Courtyard
Past event2024y.July0716 d.21:00-23:00
On the evening of July 16th, the poetic songwriter and singer Gabrielė Vilkickytė returns to the stage of “Midsummer Vilnius.”
Gregory Porter with The Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
Grand Courtyard
Past event2024y.July0715 d.21:00-23:00
We are thrilled to announce that the Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Gregory Porter will open the ninth “Midsummer Vilnius” Festival on 15 July 2024.
International engraving exhibition "From the creation of the world to the apocalypse"
Past event2024y.June0627 d. - 2024y.September0915 d.
The National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, in cooperation with the Scientific Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków (Biblioteka Naukowa PAU i PAN w Krakowie), presents an international engraving exhibition dedicated to probably the most significant and largest collection of graphic art works not just in Poland but in the whole Central Eastern European region.
SKAMBANTYS VALDOVŲ RŪMAI 2024 | Kultūros naktis
Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
Past event2024y.June0607 d.18:00 - 2024y.June0608 d.
Great music, special performers and magnificent surroundings - let's spend the night together!
International conference “The Byzantine presence between Black Sea and Baltic: political, ecclesiastical, and cultural trends in late medieval East-Central Europe”
Past event2024y.May0530 d.09:00 - 2024y.May0531 d.18:00
This international conference aims to bridge a gap in the study of relations between late medieval Byzantium and its neighbours in northern East-Central Europe.
EXTRA SESSION. Silent disco - from Renaissance to break-dance!
The Great Courtyard of Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
Past event2024y.May0518 d.23:00-23:45
As the 10PM session of Silent disco is almost sold out, we present to you an additional one!
Silent disco - from Renaissance to break-dance!
The Great Courtyard of Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
Past event2024y.May0518 d.22:00-22:45
For the first time in the history of Lithuanian museums, we invite you to experience a new adventure with a group of friends or alone at the Silent Disco!
EXTRA 9PM SESSION. Silent disco - from Renaissance to break-dance!
The Great Courtyard of Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
Past event2024y.May0518 d.21:00-21:45
As the 10PM and 11PM sessions are sold out, we present to you an additional one!
"The Rebels of 1863-1864". Exhibition of the Museum of Polish History in the Grand Courtyard of the Palace of the Grand Dukes
Past event2024y.April0425 d. - 2024y.May0519 d.
The interactive exhibition "The Rebels of 1863-1864" presents the origins, beginning, and course of the uprising in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and parts of Ukraine by revealing the personal stories of the participants.
Vivat galliard! Historical Dance Day
Past event2024y.April0413 d.13:00-17:00
The Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania together with the Lithuanian Choreographers' Association invites you to get into the rhythm of the galliard and celebrate the Day of Historical Dance by taking part in various events.
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) Oratorio SAN CASIMIRO RE DI POLONIA (1705)
Great Renaissance Hall
Past event2024y.March0323 d.19:00-20:30
Thirteen Emotions
Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
Past event2024y.March0322 d.18:00-19:15
Christian Velasco Vázquez - baroque guitar, theorbo
Emilė Ribokaitė - soprano
Concert “Music in the Underground Gallery”
Past event2024y.March0321 d.19:00-20:30
Concert at Vilnius TV Tower
Concert „Amori e altri Capricci dell’invenzione“
Past event2024y.March0320 d.18:00-19:15
The program consists of Girolamo Frescobaldi, Tarquinio Merula, Riccardo Rognoni, Barbara Strozzi, Giacomo Carissimi, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Girolamo Dalla Casa, Giovanni Maria Bononcini compositions.
Doulce Memoire. Music for Renaissance Guitar, Renaissance Lute, Baroque Guitar and Baroque Lute
Past event2024y.March0318 d.18:00-19:15
In the program you will hear the sound of various instruments. The performer plays Renaissance and Baroque lute, Renaissance and Baroque guitar.
Tarquinio Merula - the Great Music Master of the Vasa Dynasty
Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
Past event2024y.March0317 d.18:00-19:15
International Early Music Ensemble “Canto Fiorito”
Baroque Sacred Duets
Great Renaissance Hall
Past event2024y.March0316 d.18:00-19:15
Early Music Ensemble “Pulchra in Fortis”: Karolina Parmas, Rūta Vosyliūtė, Eglė Rudokaitė
Musical Heritage of the Sforza Family
Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
Past event2024y.March0314 d.18:00-19:15
Early Music Ensemble “Cordaria” (Switzerland / Lithuania)
Katharina Haun - cornetto and recorder
Adam Bregman - sackbut
Vilimas Norkūnas - organ, basso continuo
Cappella Concertante Vilnense. Dimitris Karakantas
Past event2024y.March0310 d.18:00-19:15
Concert of baroque violin virtuoso Dimitris Karakantas and the "Cappella Concertante Vilnense" orchestra.
Vilnius Bach
Renaissance Great Hall
Past event2024y.March0307 d.18:00-19:40
Claudio Astronio (harpsichord, Italy)
CANTORÍA concert ‘El Fuego’
Great Renaissance Hall
Past event2024y.March0303 d.18:00-19:15
Cantoría is a young vocal quartet specialising in the performance of vocal polyphony from the Iberian Renaissance.
A Renaissance Masterpiece from Wawel. Giovanni Bellini’s "Madonna and Child"
Palace of the Grand Dukes
Past event2024y.February0223 d. - 2024y.May0519 d.
In 2023, the Wawel Royal Castle – State Art Collection (Poland) acquired a masterpiece of 15th-century Italian painting – Madonna and Child by Giovanni Bellini (ca 1430–1516), one of the most famous Italian artists of all time and a genius of the Renaissance. This magnificent painting can be traced back to the 19th century and is known to have belonged to famous art collections. It is now a diamond in the Wawel Royal Castle collection.
Freedom symbols of the Baltic States, 1918–1940. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
Valdovų rūmai
Past event2024y.February0214 d. - 2024y.May0526 d.
The exhibition Freedom Symbols of the Baltic States, 1918–1940. Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia continues the National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania’s tradition to organise exhibitions dedicated to revealing the history of our 20th-century statehood and its continuity. At a time when Ukraine is fighting for its fate and the destiny of all of Europe, the exhibition’s relevance is further heightened by the freedom theme.
From a unicorn to the three kings: Gothic stove tiles from the Collections of the Palace of the Grand Dukes
Past event2023y.November1130 d. - 2024y.April0428 d.
This exhibition presents just one artefact group from this rich collection – Gothic flat stove tiles. The stove tile collection dating to the mid-15th century consists of around 650 stove tiles and fragments thereof, decorated with at least 60 different narratives. Some of the stove tiles from the turn of the 15th–16th centuries are also included in our Gothic collection. The stove tiles are decorated with heraldic symbols, scenes from the lives of the saints, biblical scenes, mythological and everyday life narratives. A hypothetical mid-15th century stove was reconstructed based on this collection as part of the overall reconstruction of the Gothic period interiors at the National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania.
International event "Katarina Jagellonica: Today’s insights from Poland, Finland, Sweden and Lithuania"
Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
Past event2023y.November1121 d.13:00-15:30
International event
Lecturers: Bengt Selin, dr. Karin Tegenborg Falkdalen, dr. Katarzyna Wagner, dr. Rasa Leonavičiūtė-Gecevičienė, Ilona Skujaitė, Gerda Butkuvienė
Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra
Renaissance Great Hall
Past event2023y.November1115 d.18:00-20:00
Soloist Bartłomiej NIZIOŁ (baroque violin)
WROCLAW BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
Artistic Director Jarosław THIEL
Conductor Andrzej KOSENDIAK
Josie Dixon lecture "From Vilnius to Edinburgh: story of Felix Yaniewicz (1762 - 1848)"
Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
Past event2023y.November1115 d.17:00-17:30
Lecturer Josie Dixon
International exhibition “Between presence and memory. Historic images of the Vilnius castles“
Valdovų rūmai
Past event2023y.October1012 d. - 2024y.January0114 d.
The international exhibition of historic iconography presents the origins, development and memory and reconstruction visions of the Vilnius castles and one of their most important objects – the Lower Castle’s residence of the Lithuanian grand dukes. The exhibition features approximately two hundred visual sources – cartography, paintings, graphic art and other works – chronologically spanning a period from the late 14th century to the second half of the 20th century. In addition to authentic works, visitors will also be able to see enlarged facsimiles in which important details will be more visible.
Exhibition of Kazimierz Alchimowicz’s painting “The funeral of Gediminas”
Valdovų rūmai
Past event2023y.October1010 d. - 2024y.January0114 d.
This exhibition presenting the painting by Kazimierz Alchimowicz The Funeral of Gediminas symbolically brings to a close the 700th anniversary of Vilnius programme. It was none other than Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas who was the first to herald the name of Vilnius in 1323. As the cycle of events dedicated to the history of Vilnius comes to an end, the National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania invites visitors to honour a ruler whose character inspires creators to this day.
Film "Coffee and Cigarettes"
Grand Courtyard
Past event2023y.August0811 d.22:30 - 2023y.August0812 d.00:20
Jim Jarmusch (2023) English
Film "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
Past event2023y.August0810 d.22:30 - 2023y.August0811 d.00:30
Romantic Comedy, United Kingdom
Film "The Birds"
Grand Courtyard
Past event2023y.August0808 d.22:30 - 2023y.August0809 d.00:30
Mystery, Horror Thriller, USA
Raimondas Paknys’ photography exhibition "The Vestiges of Time: Walls and Colours"
Past event2023y.July0704 d. - 2023y.September0924 d.
The object of Raimondas Paknys’ photographs are the ruins of Christian sanctuaries, mostly Catholic churches and chapels, or more precisely – the traces of polychromy on the walls of these buildings. Marks of polychromy are a universal feature of historical heritage, which allow the photographer to overlook the functional typology of architecture and present examples of artistic culture of an entire region (in this case, the territory of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) and a broad chronological period (the 17th–19th centuries).
International exhibition "The Tapestries of Sigismund Augustus in Vilnius"
Past event2023y.May0503 d. - 2023y.July0730 d.
The tapestry collection of the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund Augustus (1544/1548–1572), distinguished for its highest level of artistry, historical significance, unparalleled scope of an artistic project realised by one client, legendary material value and turbulent destiny is truly a diamond in the context of European art collections. It is viewed as an idiosyncratic phenomenon of European patronage, art and cultural heritage, an actual historic relic of the early Polish-Lithuanian state, equalling the insignia of rulers in terms of its symbolic significance. In current-day Poland, Sigismund Augustus’ tapestries are named as the most valuable historic collection and the most important exhibit at the Wawel Royal Castle in Krakow, drawing inquisitive audiences from around the world.