Monthly Archives: March 2022

The Motuza Brothers Films Arrived in Lithuania

The Lithuanian Central State Archives received a shipment of valuable films from Chicago. The Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture has handed over to the Archives for digitization of the Motuza brothers’ films. Famous Lithuanian-American filmmakers, the pioneers of Lithuanian colour documentary filmmaking brothers Kazimieras and Mečys Motuza, captured life in pre-war Lithuania on 16 mm Kodak colour film: villages and towns, their architecture, monuments, festivals and people. According to the Lithuanian Central State Archives, all films will be scanned and made available to the patrons.

Read more March 31, 2022
Exhibition Dedicated to the French Writer Romain Gary

On March 23, an exhibition “Romain Gary: The Return to Vilnius” (French: Romain Gary: un retour à Vilnius) was opened at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania.

Read more March 28, 2022
Two Books on Lithuanian Diaspora in the US

The interviews and articles published in the book Laiko jungtys (Versus, 2021) cover a period of more than thirty years. The signs of time are fragmentary, perhaps incomplete, but many of the interviews have retained their authenticity and have become a document of a dynamic period. The collection of the interviews concerns the cultural field of the Lithuanian diaspora and the circumstances of its vitality.

Read more March 21, 2022
Baltic Heritage Network Newsletter 2022, no.1

The winter edition of the Baltic Heritage Network quarterly newsletter is now available. In these pages you will find information about our past and future events, new publications, and what is happening across the globe within the diaspora research and archive communities.

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A Museum Reimagined: The New Face of VEMU

Followers of VEMU may have already noticed through social media and via other channels that our public image has been recently refreshed. In collaboration with Estonian design firm Velvet, we underwent an exciting rebranding process throughout 2021; this was an important stepping stone towards realizing VEMU’s new home. We are preparing for a stronger and rejuvenated fundraising campaign for this purpose and in order to do that, an in depth look at who we are, what we would like to achieve and how we want to appear to the world was necessary.

Read more March 8, 2022
An Exhibition by the Lithuanian Museum-Archives of Canada

If there was a collection of documents that were surrounded by intrigue, the Gylys collection fits the bill. That is how a virtual exhibition „Long Journey Home: Great Discovery” by the Lithuanian Museum-Archives of Canada (LMAC) starts.

Read more March 7, 2022