On the Guard of Lithuanian Artistic Heritage

The main focus in the exhibition dedicated to the 125th anniversary of Paulius Galaunė, director of M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum for many years, an art historian and pedagogue, and 120th anniversary of Adelė Galaunienė, primadona of Lithuanian opera, is Folk Art. Sequencing the programme The Museum Path which is developing this year the topic of wonderful folk art, the museum invites visitors to bring back to memory a series of albums on Lithuanian Folk Art.

The exhibition presents only a small part of folk art treasury accumulated in M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art. Some exhibits entered the museum collections in 1907 from the Lithuanian Art Society, others have successfully represented Lithuania in Decorative Art exhibition in Monza (Italy) in 1925, and in Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) in 1931.


Exhibitions and events

“LITHUANIA – THE LAND OF CROSSES”

Permanent exhibition

Lithuanian crosses are a unique phenomenon. In 2001, UNESCO included Lithuanian cross-crafting in the representative list of masterpieces of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. They are a...

“THE ARCHAICS: LITHUANIAN FOLK ART XVIII–XX C.”

Permanent exhibition

The exposition aims to unfold our nation’s cultural heritage of the 18th – 20th centuries through the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art’s collection of Lithuanian folk art which is comprised...

FROM AMBER TO THE STARS. TOGETHER WITH M. K. ČIURLIONIS: NOW AND THEN

Temporary exhibition at Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis National Museum of Art until 12.10.2025

Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuania’s most famous composer and Symbolist painter! The exhibition  FROM AMBER TO THE STARS. TOGETHER WITH...

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