M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum

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The M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum is a group of museums based in Kaunas, Lithuania. It is primarily dedicated to exhibiting and publicizing the works of the painter and musician M.K. Čiurlionis (1875–1911).

The museum was founded in 1921, and opened a temporary gallery in 1925. It was renamed Vytautas the Great Museum of Culture in 1936, receiving its current name in 1944. An expansion took place in 1969.[1]

The museum sponsors international exhibitions along with lectures, concerts, conferences, and special educational activities for children.

The museum shares its building with the Vytautas the Great War Museum and is located in the New Town of Kaunas. The oldest still functioning Žaliakalnis Funicular Railway is situated nearby. It climbs 142 metres (466 ft) up from behind the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum to the Church of the Resurrection.

Exhibition

M.K.Ciurlionis Art Museum in Kaunas has more than 355,000 items. The museum’s exhibit collections consist of M.K.Ciurlionis’ heritage, Lithuanian folk art, fine and applied arts of Lithuania of the fifteenth-twentieth centuries, ancient world art, foreign fine and applied art, numismatics, archives of folk art and the artistic life items of Lithuania.[2] Its branches include the Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery, Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas Historical Presidential Palace, Ceramics Museum, Devils' Museum, M. K. Čiurlionis Memorial Museum, Antanas Žmuidzinavičius Memorial Museum, Paulius Galaunė Family House, Liudas Truikys and Marijona Rakauskaite Museum, Juozas Zikaras Museum, and Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas Gallery.[1]

Image gallery

  • Čiurlionio nac. muz. Administracinis pastatas.JPG

    Administrative building of the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum

  • Čiurlionio nac. muz. Administracijos ir konferencijų pastatas.JPG

    The M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum

  • Čiurlionio nac. muz. Laiptai tarp admin. ir ekspozicijų pastatų.JPG

    Stairs to the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum

Footnotes

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  2. ↑ http://www.lithuania.travel/en-gb/attractions/mkciurlionis-art-museum/17120

External links

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