Exhibitions

The new exhibition at the Church Heritage Museum focuses on the development of the landscape genre in Western European art, as well as on poetry and the senses of visitors. The exhibition “Cosmic Choir. Landscapes in Sacred Art and Literature” brings together, for the first time, works by Dürer, Rubens, Giovanni Bellini, and other Western European and Lithuanian masters preserved in Lithuanian museum collections. Presented as a whole, they reveal how perceptions and depictions of nature evolved at the turn of the Renaissance and Baroque eras.

To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, we present a memorial object of special significance in preserving the memory of the Čiurlionis family: the organ from the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Kabeliai. Historical research suggests that this instrument originally stood in the old church of Ratnyčia, where M. K. Čiurlionis’s father, Konstantinas Čiurlionis, worked as an organist in 1876–1877. This unique artifact is closely tied to the artist’s early childhood and to the history of Ratnyčia and Kabeliai.

The exhibition playfully presents the pilgrims' routes and the curiosities associated with the journey, revealing the goals that invited the pilgrims to embark on their distant and dangerous route. On a large map, visitors can move mobile figures towards their chosen destination and see the extensive network of pilgrimage ways that has developed since early Christianity, as well as ring a bell to invite fellow pilgrims, smell the scent of real incense, get the seal of the place they are visiting, peer into the doors of the Jubilee Basilicas, see what pilgrims took on their journey, the dangers and rest stops that awaited them. Young visitors will be able to obtain a "Pilgrim's Passport", which not only has space for stamps, but also includes puzzles and tasks.