Parodos Lietuvos muziejuose
In 2011, Centre, participating in a program presented by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania „The memory of Holocaust victims in Lithuania“, prepared and implemented the project „Educational exhibitions about Jewish history and culture in Lithuania in regional museums“. The preparation of such exhibitions and its' integration into an existing permanent exhibition of museums were funded. After productive work period with museums, several exhibitions were opened and an educational materials (postcards, pamphlets etc.) published at the second half of the year.
Samogitian museum “Alka” (internet website: http://zam.mch.mii.lt/index.en.htm) prepared a comprehensive exhibition “In the way of life and death”, which expressed the main aspects of Jewish life in Telšiai region and showed extraordinary moments of their daily life as well. This bilingual exhibition (in English and in Lithuanian) symbolically was opened on the day of Holocaust remembrance, on 23rd of September, 2011. Opening of the exhibition attracted intense interest of the locals and was presented to whole Lithuania during „Panorama“ on TV. By participating in this project Šiauliai Aušros museum (internet website: http://ausrosmuziejus.lt/eng/) held an interactive modern exhibition. It was opened on the 1st of December in a historical Ch. Frenkelis villa, which now belongs to the museum. The aim of the project, presented in the exhibition, is an inclusion of Šiauliai Grand Choral Synagogue's „White Swan“ work of art-model into already existed model of Šiauliai Old town. This exhibition is visually attractive and challenging in intellectual ways, because the employees of the museum made a rigid research of archival materials in order to create a very realistic model. North Lithuanian museums participated very actively in the project. Another one of them is Rokiškis Regional Museum (internet website: http://www.muziejusrokiskyje.lt/en/page/6), which is located in magnificent Manor house, which ones belonged to a popular Tyzenhauz family. They prepared a virtual exhibition presenting history of Jewish community in Rokiškis district. Virtual terminal is rich in visual (photographs, posters, pictures, maps) and audio-video (recorded memories, fragments of the documentary „The lived in Rokiškis“) material. Also the memory of Holocaust receives much attention in this exhibition. Supported exhibition projects successfully complement existing permanent exhibitions of the museums, serve as educational means for creating an intolerance-free society. Centre developed a close cooperation with museums, which hopefully become a stimulus for museums to participate in further projects related to Jewish history, culture and heritage.
