Maironis Museum
The Maironis Museum ( Lithuanian Maironio lietuvių literatūros muziejus ) in Kaunas is the central literary museum of Lithuania . It collects and preserves the evidence of Lithuanian literature from its beginnings to the present.
history
The museum was founded in 1936 in the house of the Lithuanian national poet Maironis (1862–1932) in order to preserve his literary legacy permanently. The papers of other Lithuanian authors have also been collected since 1941. The holdings now include around 600 collections on individual authors.
The permanent exhibition is located in an 18th century palace. The most important part is the Jonas Mačiulis Maironis Memorial, established in 1992 . The former apartment of the poet and Catholic clergyman was reconstructed in eight rooms with original furniture and furnishings. Another permanent exhibition in the museum presents the history of Lithuanian literature, from the oral storytelling tradition to the emergence of Lithuanian national literature at the end of the 19th century, to contemporary literature in today's Lithuania. The literary activities of Lithuanian authors abroad from 1944 to the present day are presented in an exhibition on exile literature (“Gone to Return”).
The museum also has several branches in Kaunas: a children's literature museum , the Salomėja Nėris memorial with a permanent exhibition on the life and work of the poet Salomėja Nėris (1904–1945), the Juozas Tumas Vaižgantas memorial in the former home of Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas (1869–1933), as well as the Balys-and-Vanda-Sruogos house with a permanent exhibition on the life and work of the Sruoga couple (1896–1947), and finally the Juozas-Grušas memorial , in the manuscripts, Documents, publications and personal effects of this writer (1901–1986) are preserved.
Directors
- 1936–1940 Jonas Balys
- 1940–1945 Bernardas Brazdžionis
- 1945–1951 Antanas Busilas
- 1951–1970 Juozas Kulikauskas
- 1970–1981 Marija Macijauskienė
- 1985-1989 A. Lauraitis
- 1989–2019 Aldona Ruseckaitė
- since 2019 Deimantė Cibulskienė
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Coordinates: 54 ° 53 ′ 48 ″ N , 23 ° 53 ′ 3 ″ E