Exhibitions

This fourth exhibition in the ongoing series dedicated to restored artworks from churches of the Archdiocese of Vilnius presents paintings restored between 2020 and 2026. During this period, more than 90 paintings from 41 churches were conserved and restored at the Archdiocese’s restoration workshops. The exhibition features 18 restored artworks from 11 churches.

Hidden and awaiting discovery for nearly a century, the Treasury of Vilnius Cathedral is gradually reclaiming its place in history and is being presented to the public for the first time as a unified whole. The exhibition traces the dramatic fate of the Cathedral treasures – their concealment and rediscovery across time. Crafted for the liturgy, royal burials, bishops’ consecrations, and the adornment of the Cathedral, and offered in prayer, gratitude, and hope, these objects stand as witnesses to the history of Lithuania.

Eglė Ridikaitė’s exhibition, through an unexpected artistic ges¬ture, weaves together sites of faith, painful historical experienc¬es, and a sense of present vulnerability. With striking clarity, serenity, and simplicity, Depositions unfolds as a silent yet con¬ceptually dense narrative about the city. It invites us to experi-ence, simultaneously, the layered histories of prewar Jewish and Christian Vilnius, while tracing processes of survival and extinc¬tion, life and its erasure in memory.

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.