EXHIBITIONS

From December 3 The part of the exhibition "Cultural Heritage of Manors" exhibited in Chaim Frenkel's Villa-Museum will acquaint visitors with the exceptional collection of manor cultural heritage accumulated in the "Aušros" Museum and the circumstances of its entry into the museum. The exhibition will review the purposeful efforts of the museum in the interwar period to actualize the significance of the cultural heritage of the manors, present the process of registration and protection of cultural values ​​organized in the nationalized manors in 1940-1943, and the role of the Aušros Museum in it.

The cultural values ​​of the manors from the collection of the Šiauliai "Aušros" museum will be exhibited at the exhibition - from the keys of the Berženiai manor to valuable items from the 18th-19th centuries. artificial porcelain, paintings, sculptures, furniture. Some of these values ​​will be presented to the public for the first time. The stylized reconstruction of the interior of the manor created in the exhibition will reflect the 19th-20th centuries. p. The view of the manors of the Northern Lithuania region, the everyday life of the nobles of that time, their artistic taste and education, interest in the cultural innovations of Western Europe and will significantly complement the exposition in Chaim Frenkel's villa-museum "Provincial manor and city in the 19th century. avg. - 20th century average".

The exhibition will be on display in Chaim Frenkel's villa-museum until 2025. April 13

Exhibition "ŠAM - 101: in the footsteps of the first collections. Manor cultural heritage" curator - Jūratė Kaučikaitė, text author - Jovita Vilimaitienė.
Exhibition design – UAB ZET-A-ZET. The communication designer of the exhibition is Darius Linkevičius.
The organizer is Šiauliai "Aušros" museum. The sponsor is the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania

From 2024 May 18 until 2025 January 26 The exhibition "Portrait of an Interwar Woman" dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Stanislava Venclauskienė is open at the Venclauskii House-Museum.

in 2024 we celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Lithuanian luminary Stanislava Venclauskienė. This woman was an outstanding personality of her time, who left a bright and bright mark on the history of her hometown and country. Stanislava was born in 1874. July 9 In Šiauliai, in the noble Jakševičić family. She grew up in a patriotic environment. Both parents attended in 1863. in rebellion Stanislava's father, Jonas Jakševičius, only luckily escaped the death penalty. Stanislava's mother, Marija Rudavičiūtė, was also famous for her patriotic activities.

The exhibition dedicated to the anniversary of Stanislava Venclauskienė restored the context of her period of residence. She showed Stanislav in the environment of her time, revealed the challenges and trends of that time. The exhibition told about her peers, companions, like-minded people. It is an overview of women's lives between the wars. In the exhibition, a portrait of an interwar woman was created from numerous historical details. The story is about women who lived in a period of change. Coming from the old society, they were not afraid to be the first to take bold steps, take up new activities, and fight for their rights. The exhibition told about the activities of women in the Lithuanian national revival, how they contributed to the restoration of the Lithuanian state, how they participated in the public and political life of the state.

It tells about how women sought education and training, how difficult it was for them to win positions, how much they had to prove in their professional activities. The status of a woman in the family, its change in modern society, the joys and worries of motherhood were also discussed.

At the exhibition, it was possible to get acquainted with the interwar lifestyle of women, the fashions of that time, and leisure time. For the visual solutions of the exhibition, the art deco style, which was popular in interwar Lithuania and fascinated women, was chosen. The exhibition invited to dive into the world of the interwar woman. And don't forget that today's women living in today's independent Lithuania should also be grateful to these brave and active women.


Organizer Šiauliai "Aušros" museum
Exhibition design UAB ZET-A-ZET

Šiauliai "Aušros" museum was founded more than 101 years ago - in 1923. on March 11, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first Lithuanian newspaper "Aušra", and named after the same name. The museum, which has accumulated abundant and rich collections of exhibits during a century of intensive activity, updates the first collections of the museum and the directions of their formation and opens the exhibition "ŠAM - 101: in the footsteps of the first collections".

In the exhibition "ŠAM - 101: in the footsteps of the first collections" exhibited at the Šiauliai History Museum. Ethnic cultural heritage" introduces the main directions of formation of the collections of Šiauliai "Aušras" museum: ethnographic expeditions, individual values ​​and collections transferred to the museum by private individuals, thematic collections accumulated during the preparation of museum exhibitions. Presenting the pride of the Aušra museum - Ethnographic archive - 2006. included in the Lithuanian national register of the UNESCO program "Memory of the World", it tells about the personalities who created and nurtured the "Aušras" museum. The exhibition exhibits material from the collections of the Šiauliai "Aušros" museum. And most of the museum values ​​accumulated in the interwar period can be seen in the exposition of the open storages of the Šiauliai History Museum.

The exhibition will be on display at the Šiauliai History Museum until 2025. April 13

Exhibition "ŠAM - 101: in the footsteps of the first collections. Heritage of ethnic culture" curator Birutė Lukošiūtė.

Exhibition design – UAB ZET-A-ZET. The communication designer of the exhibition is Darius Linkevičius.

The organizer is Šiauliai "Aušra" museum. The sponsor is the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania

An overview exhibition of Saulius Paukštys's work "Images and Visions" has been opened at the Museum of Photography, covering more than 4 decades of the author's creative work - from the first attempts at school photography to the latest works created this year. It is a reflection of time and human inner states, in which the development of the author's creative strategies and turning points in the context of the times are highlighted, and the genesis of the author's contemporary creative style is revealed. The exhibition will run until 2025. March 2

S. Paukštys is an interdisciplinary creator, his photographic experiments broadened the boundaries and perception of the artistic expression of photography. He is a rebel, a contextual artist, who stands out for his unique conceptual style and personality.

Although the author is an active participant in today's cultural life and actively presents his latest works, his early, "predatory" period and the last 20th century. the work of the decade is still not updated enough. Looking from the perspective of time, the creator's works gain more and more value - it is a reflection of time and human inner states, in which the development of the author's creative strategies and turning points in the context of the era are highlighted, and the genesis of the author's contemporary creative style is revealed.

The exhibition covers the artist's most important creative themes, ideas, forms of rebellion, expressions of techniques. It is important in forming a coherent photographic picture that reveals the wide spectrum of the author's work in different periods.

The exhibition exhibits works from the collection of works of S. Paukštys stored in the Museum of Photography, which probably represents the author's work in the most abundant and comprehensive way among the collections of memory institutions. Also presented are works from the MO Museum, the Lithuanian Union of Photographic Artists, the collections of Ramučis Petniūnas and the author's archive.

The exhibition is intended to mark the author's 60th birthday and 40 years of creative activity.

The curator of the exhibition is Vilija Ulinskytė-Balzienė

The communication designer of the exhibition is Darius Linkevičius

The organizer is Šiauliai "Aušros" museum branch - Museum of Photography

The exhibition was partially financed by the municipality of Šiauliai