Unique tapestries had arrived to the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania

Vilnius embraces the holiday season with an open-air ice rink that changes location each year and has become an annual tradition. This year, Vilnius invites the city’s guests and residents to skate and spin in the courtyard of the Palace of the Grand Dukes.

 

The National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania has received a gift from Dr Pranas Kiznis: 26 paintings representing 15th–17th-century Western European art are being transferred to the museum. Dr Pranas Kiznis is gifting some of them to the National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, while others are being offered for long-term exposition. This new gift adds to the patron’s existing picture gallery, which has been housed in the museum for several years already. From now on, visitors coming to the National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania will be able to admire Kiznis’ collection of paintings, formed after long years of scouring European auctions and private collections and based on historical sources alluding to which particular artworks made up the collection of the rulers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and which painting schools they represented.