The Romanticisms. Educational Programme
2025 07 01–2026 01 11
Public Lectures
22 July 2025, 5.30 pm
What is Hidden in a Lady’s Closet: Romantic Crinoline Fashion and How We Came to It
Eglė Kukytė
30 September 2025, 5.30 pm
‘I Believed I Would Find the Key to Life’s Secret’: The First Girls’ Schools in Vilnius and Their Pupils
Dr Olga Mastianica-Stankevič
14 October 2025, 5.30 pm
Neo-Romanticism in the Late 19th-century Lithuanian Art
Dr Aušrinė Kulvietytė-Cemnolonskė
21 October 2025, 5.30 pm
Dances of Dreams and Reveries: Romanticism and 19th-century Ballet
Dr Helmutas Šabasevičius
11 November 2025, 5.30 pm
The Spirit of Romanticism in Lithuanian Manor Architecture
Ramunė Savickaitė
18 November 2025, 5.30 pm
Lithuanian Traces in the Biography of the Legendary Maria Szymanowska (1789–1831)
Dr Reda Griškaitė
9 December 2025
For a Single Gentleman – No More Than Two Dances! Guidelines for 19th-century Ball Etiquette
Dr Aistė Bimbirytė
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Concerts
1 October 2025, 6 pm
Concert by The Lithuanian Symphonic Wind Orchestra ‘Echoes of Čiurlionis’
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Guided Tours
Guided Tours with Exhibition Curators*
8 July 2025, 5.30 pm
2 December 2025, 5.30 pm
Sunday Guided Tours with Museum Guide**
21 September 2025, 1 pm
19 October 2025, 1 pm
23 November 2025, 1 pm
14 December 2025, 1 pm
Registration for tours with exhibition curators and Sunday tours with museum guides opens one week before the event.
* Participation in the tour requires purchase of a museum visitor ticket
** Tours with museum guides can also be booked individually by prior arrangement at gidai.vpg@lndm.lt or telephone +37068190329.
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Public Education Activities
20 September 2025, 1 pm – ‘Silhouette Portrait Drawing’
11 October 2025, 1 pm – ‘Landscape of the Soul’
22 November 2025, 1 pm – ‘Where Does History Begin and Mythology End?’
13 December 2025, 1 pm – ‘Silhouette Portrait Drawing’
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Educational Workshops
Visions of Romanticism
Romantic-era creators responded sensitively to the world around them – natural elements became sources of inspiration, whilst the figure of the solitary, rebellious genius embodied the spirit of the epoch. This educational workshop invites you to explore the heritage of Lithuanian Romantic art and literature. We will study works by renowned 19th-century artists that reveal Romantic aesthetics: nature’s grandeur, emotional expression, and the relationship between human and environment. In the literary section, we will explore the work of Romantics connected to Vilnius – Adam Mickiewicz, Władysław Syrokomla and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski. Younger pupils will investigate Romantic landscapes in the practical section, learning to identify moods and symbols within them before creating their own drawings inspired by natural elements. Older pupils will have the opportunity to try on 19th-century costumes and experience the social life of the period, learning the nuances of period etiquette, performing short scenes and exploring the behavioural norms of the time.
Workshop duration: 45–60 minutes, designed for pupils in Years 4–12
* The workshop can be adapted for students and adults with special needs
** Culture Passport service
Where Does History Begin and Mythology End?
What connects Adam Mickiewicz’s Grażyna with Emilia Plater? Which historical event inspired Władysław Syrokomla to write the poem Margiris? History and mythology frequently intertwine – from ancient legends of battles with the Crusaders to 19th-century uprisings wrapped in legends of sacrifice. This educational workshop explores how these layers intersect in Lithuanian literature and Romantic art. We will discover what narratives writers and artists construct about the nation’s past, which heroes they champion and why. We will examine works that reveal historical personalities and mythologised events, discussing their significance in forming national identity.
Workshop duration: 45–60 minutes, designed for pupils in Years 9–12
* The workshop can be adapted for students and adults with special needs
Adam Mickiewicz: Word, Inspiration and Image
Adam Mickiewicz – one of the most celebrated poets writing in Polish, a playwright and essayist whose work resonated in the past and remains relevant today. This education session takes us through the twists and turns of Mickiewicz’s life and work: we will discover when he published his first work, who his greatest muse was and what ideas underpin his texts.
In the practical section, everyone becomes a creator – through drawing, we will interpret a selected passage from his work, attempting to convey the mood of poetry through colours and lines.
Workshop duration: 45–60 minutes, designed for pupils in Years 9–12
* The workshop can be adapted for students and adults with special needs
Landscape of the Soul
This education session introduces the main characteristics of Romantic art – we will focus particularly on the grandeur, emotionality and mystery of nature and its elements. In the exhibition, we will view landscapes painted by Romantics, exploring how artists conveyed nature’s moods, the interplay of light and shadow, and atmospheric sensations. We will discover what various landscape elements symbolise. Later, we will create our own landscape – a blend of reality and fantasy, incorporating elements characteristic of Romantic landscape painting.
Workshop duration: 45–60 minutes, designed for pre-school children, pupils in Years 1–12, adults and seniors
*The workshop can be adapted for students and adults with special needs
Memory Album
We invite you to immerse yourself in the world of memories, inspired by the emotionality of the Romantic epoch and its nostalgic view of the past. This workshop introduces the work of Romantic artists, where memories, dreams, longing and idealisation of the past play crucial roles. In the creative activity, everyone will create a page from their own memory album, using elements of collage, drawing and calligraphy. This could be a visual letter to the past, a dream or a dear person.
Workshop duration: 45–60 minutes, designed for pre-school children, pupils in Years 1–12, adults and seniors
*The workshop can be adapted for students and adults with special needs
Silhouette Portrait Drawing
Silhouette drawing was a popular leisure activity in the 18th and 19th centuries and a convenient way to capture the changing faces of loved ones over time. In those days, people used silhouette portraits to decorate their home interiors or family portrait albums. During this education session, we will draw participants’ silhouette outlines using a silhouette apparatus. Then, using a pantograph – a device resembling the drawing enlargement and reduction apparatus used at the time – we will reduce the drawing outlines to a convenient size and complete them by decorating with black ink.
*The workshop can be adapted for students and adults with special needs
To register for educational workshops, call +370 682 45 314 or email augustina.ivanauskaite@lndm.lt
Exhibition Organiser LNDM Vilnius Picture Gallery
Curators: Aistė Bimbirytė, Gabija Kasparavičiutė-Kaminskienė, Dalia Tarandaitė, Joana Vitkutė
Architect Jurgis Dagelis
Designers: Edita Namajūnienė, Domantas Pigulevičius
Educators: Augustina Ivanauskaitė, Jolanta Sereikaitė
Tour Guides: Dalia Kaladinskienė, Akvilė Murauskaitė
Conservators: Algimantas Vaineikis, Lina Jurnienė, Audronė Petroševičiūtė, Paulius Zovė, Arūnas Baublys, Birutė Miškinienė, Inga Petkutytė, Daiva Petrauskaitė, Milda Šulniūtė (intern), Elena Adelina Kofman (intern)
Partners: National Museum of Lithuania, National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, Vilnius University Museum, Vilnius University Library, The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Film Museum, The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Władysław Syrokomla Museum, M.K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, Samogitian Museum Alka, Ukmergė Local History Museum, Šiauliai Aušros Museum, Trakai History Museum, The Lithuanian Art Centre TARTLE, Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature, National Museum in Krakow, Rūta and Rimvydas Baranauskai, dr. Jaunius Gumbis, dr. Kristina Sabaliauskaitė, Milanijus Jankauskas, BTA draudimas
Media sponsor JCDecaux Lietuva
Project financed by Lietuvos Respublikos kultūros ministerija
4 Didžioji st, Vilnius, Lithuania
+370 5 261 1685
vpg@lndm.lt
