Exhibition Didžioji Street at Vilnius Picture Gallery
At 5 pm on Wednesday, 26th September, the opening of the second exhibition in the series Streets of Vilnius by the Lithuanian Art Museum, called Didžioji Street (open 26 September 2019 – 12 January 2020) will take place at the Vilnius Picture Gallery (Didžioji St 4).
The exhibition Didžioji Street continues the Lithuanian Art Museum’s series of exhibitions called Streets of Vilnius, dedicated to marking the 700th anniversary since the establishment of the capital of Lithuania. On the eve of this significant jubilee, which Vilnius will be celebrating in 2023, a sociotopographic museum study is being carried out in the city, seeking to unveil the development of the capital’s streets, demonstrate their culturally and linguistically heterogeneous nature and remind us of the more prominent historic events and phenomena, as well as introduce us to Vilnius citizens and their day-to-day life. Didžioji is one of the oldest and most important streets in Vilnius. It was part of the old Road of the Grand Dukes, as well as where the city hall, the Church of St Casimir and numerous palaces of the nobility were located, and it had well-developed infrastructure, which was of great importance to the city. How this age-old street developed, what lifestyle and customs were shared by its residents – the answers to these and many other questions are sought in iconography, artefacts and archive material.
The exhibition contains two works from our collection – Vilnius. Didžioji gatvė (1942) by Vytautas Mackevičius and The Church of St Casimir (1947) by Zygmunt Mieczyslaw Czaykowski.
Exhibition team:
Margarita Matulytė – project leader and exhibition curator
Justina Augustytė – exhibition curator
Donatas Snarskis – exhibition curator
Bartė Kuolytė – pop-up exhibition Didžioji Street: Stories of the Street curator
At 5 pm on Wednesday, 26th September, the opening of the second exhibition in the series Streets of Vilnius by the Lithuanian Art Museum, called Didžioji Street (open 26 September 2019 – 12 January 2020) will take place at the Vilnius Picture Gallery (Didžioji St 4).
The exhibition Didžioji Street continues the Lithuanian Art Museum’s series of exhibitions called Streets of Vilnius, dedicated to marking the 700th anniversary since the establishment of the capital of Lithuania. On the eve of this significant jubilee, which Vilnius will be celebrating in 2023, a sociotopographic museum study is being carried out in the city, seeking to unveil the development of the capital’s streets, demonstrate their culturally and linguistically heterogeneous nature and remind us of the more prominent historic events and phenomena, as well as introduce us to Vilnius citizens and their day-to-day life. Didžioji is one of the oldest and most important streets in Vilnius. It was part of the old Road of the Grand Dukes, as well as where the city hall, the Church of St Casimir and numerous palaces of the nobility were located, and it had well-developed infrastructure, which was of great importance to the city. How this age-old street developed, what lifestyle and customs were shared by its residents – the answers to these and many other questions are sought in iconography, artefacts and archive material.
The exhibition contains two works from our collection – Vilnius. Didžioji gatvė (1942) by Vytautas Mackevičius and The Church of St Casimir (1947) by Zygmunt Mieczyslaw Czaykowski.
Exhibition team:
Margarita Matulytė – project leader and exhibition curator
Justina Augustytė – exhibition curator
Donatas Snarskis – exhibition curator
Bartė Kuolytė – pop-up exhibition Didžioji Street: Stories of the Street curator
