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The Lithuanian Royal Union of Nobility gift a sculpture of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas

The Lithuanian Royal Union of Nobility gift a sculpture of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas

Published:20231110

To commemorate the occasion of Vilnius’ 700th anniversary, the Lithuanian Royal Union of Nobility gifted to the National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania a sculpture created by Prof. Konstantinas Bogdanas of Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas. The sculpture, cast in bronze by sculptor Rimantas Keturka, was unveiled on a symbolic site at the museum – the Gediminas’ castle tower, unearthed by archeaologists and now exhibited to visitors.  

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Christmas at the Palace of the Grand Dukes

Christmas at the Palace of the Grand Dukes

Published:20231108

On the 28th-31st of December, the Palace of the Grand Dukes museum invites you to a festive concert cycle. Such splendid concerts presenting the most interesting music artists have become a tradition of the Palace of the Grand Dukes Museum. 

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At the Palace of the Grand Dukes – a collection of famous European artists’ works. Patron Pranas Kiznis’ gift to Lithuania.

At the Palace of the Grand Dukes – a collection of famous European artists’ works. Patron Pranas Kiznis’ gift to Lithuania.

Published:20231019

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. 

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Vydas Dolinskas: we want to refute the myths that no one really wanted this palace

Vydas Dolinskas: we want to refute the myths that no one really wanted this palace

Published:20231013

The early history of the Vilnius castles is inseparable from the establishment of the city, and the city of Vilnius itself was of course already mentioned in Gediminas’ letters as the ruler’s residence – the capital of the state. From as early as the 14th century, the Vilnius castles had been the political, diplomatic and cultural centre of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a state stretching from the Baltic to the Black seas. 

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The mystery surrounding Gediminas’ death – and inspiration for artists: a 19th-century painting of grand dimensions at the National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania

The mystery surrounding Gediminas’ death – and inspiration for artists: a 19th-century painting of grand dimensions at the National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania

Published:20231011

Along Tour Route II, in the Reconstructed Historical Interiors exposition space, the National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania presents an exclusive painting relating a scene from the life of Lithuania’s ruler, The Funeral of Gediminas. Its author was artist Kazimierz Alchimowicz. The painting of grand dimensions, weighing 150 kg, is on loan to Lithuania from the National Museum of Krakow to mark the occasion of Vilnius’ anniversary. The transportation of Alchimowicz’s work was a complicated procedure in itself, and in order to get it to its exposition space in Vilnius (the Grand Renaissance Hall), the work had to be lifted-in using special technical equipment via the Palace of the Grand Dukes gallery. 

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An impressive Free Sunday and a farewell to the Sigismund Augustus tapestry exhibition

An impressive Free Sunday and a farewell to the Sigismund Augustus tapestry exhibition

Published:20230803

We thank all the visitors who came on the last Sunday of July to the National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania as part of our regular Free Sundays campaign. The international exhibition The Tapestries of Sigismund Augustus in Vilnius alone attracted 6,500 thousand people on that day.  
For those who had to wait in the queue during the summer rain, we thank you for your patience. 

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Midsummer Vilnius 2023

Midsummer Vilnius 2023

Published:20230717

The unique city festival ”Midsummer Vilnius”, which brings the central Courtyard of the Palace of the Grand Dukes to life every year in midsummer, has already established itself in the cultural life of the capital and has become an integral part of the summer city.

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As Statehood Day approaches, photographer Raimondas Paknys invites visitors to remember the heritage of our historic state

As Statehood Day approaches, photographer Raimondas Paknys invites visitors to remember the heritage of our historic state

Published:20230704

The object of Raimondas Paknys’ photographs are the ruins of Christian sanctuaries, mostly Catholic churches and chapels, or more precisely – the vestiges of polychromy on the walls of these buildings.
 
These vestiges of polychromy are a universal signifier of historical heritage, which allow the photographer to overlook the functional typology of architecture and present examples of artistic culture that existed over an entire region (in this case, the territory of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) and within a broad chronological period (the 17th–19th centuries). The buildings captured in minute detail using an analog camera are scattered across an enormous territory that once belonged to one state – the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Today, these lands are divided between Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Lithuania, however the heritage objects still standing there hark back to shared cultural roots and historical bonds.

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