Dear visitors, please be reminded that the National Library is closed during public holidays so it will not be open to the public on the 24th of June, i. e. on the St John's Day.
The PAIDEIA (European Institute of Jewish Studies in Sweden) Alumni Conference took place at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania on 8-11 June.
On June 12th the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania was visited by an official delegation of the Committee on Cultural Affairs of the Swedish Riksdag. Ambassador Ingen Buxton and colleagues of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden in Lithuania accompanied the guests.
Dear visitors, please be reminded that the National Library is closed during public holidays so it will not be open to the public on the 4th of June, i. e. on the Father's day.
On 7 June, an exhibition of Moon photographs by Italian artist Luca Missoni opens at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania.
On the 22nd of May an official delegation of the Republic of Azerbaijan and First Lady Mehriban Arif gizi Aliyeva visited the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. The guests were accompanied by the First Lady of Lithuania Diana Nausėdienė.
On the 10th of May the American Space was opened at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania – the symbolic ribbon was cut by the U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania Robert S. Gilchrist together with the Vice-Minister of Culture Vygintas Gasparavičius and the Library’s Director General Prof. Dr. Renaldas Gudauskas.
Dear visitors, please be reminded that the National Library is closed during public holidays so it will not be open to the public on the 7th of May, i. e. on the Mother's Day.
From May 12 to 21, a series of film screenings "Classics of American Cinema" will be held in the Conference Hall of the Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania, dedicated to the opening of the American Space in the National Library. All screenings will be held in English. The program includes 4 classic American films from 1951 to 1962.
Dear visitors, please be reminded that the National Library is closed during public holidays so it will not be open to the public on the 1st of May, i. e. on the International Labour Day.
We kindly invite you to attend the lecture of Rabbi Moshe Levin “Who’s On Top? The Jewish Struggle for Dominance in Sex & Marriage” at the Vilnius Jewish Public Library on May 2th at 18:00.
On 3rd of May the National Library of Lithuania invites you to Mindaugas Lukošaitis’ personal exhibition “Composition”, which introduces new and former drawings as well as photographs that have not yet been displayed.
Dear all,
As I greet you on the feast of the Resurrection and the awakening of nature, I wish you hope and peace in your hearts, joy and comfort in your homes, meaning and discovery in your work. Let us appreciate and enjoy what we have, what is near and what gives meaning to our existence.
Dear visitors, please be reminded that the National Library is closed during public holidays so it will not be open to the public on the 9th and 10th of April, i. e. on the first and second day of Easter.
The Library’s opening hours are one hour shorter on a day before a public holiday thus our Library will be open until 5:00 pm on the 8th of April.
Lithuania will soon celebrate the 19th anniversary of its membership of NATO and the European Union, and the 20th anniversary in 2024. The first NATO Summit will be held in Vilnius on July 11 and 16. Joining NATO is one of the most important events in the history of Lithuania, as is evident by Russia’s war in Ukraine. These historic events will be commemorated not only by top-level political events, but also by exclusive events, exhibitions and creative and cultural industry projects.
On 4 April at 6pm, we invite you to the opening of the exhibition “Vilnius ORT Technicum – A Window to the Future” at the 5th floor atrium of the National Library of Lithuania. In this exhibition dedicated to the 700th anniversary of Vilnius, you will get a closer look at another aspect of life in interwar Vilnius – the Jewish Higher Technical School.
The Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania has digitized and made available online 75 out of 91 currently known incunabula housed at the National Library. The publications can be found in a digital freely accessible collection of the first printed books on ePaveldas.lt. It is in the Public Domain.
The National Library of Lithuania invites you to the exhibition “Metaphysics of the frame”, which presents a retrospective of the early work of the Lithuanian cinematographer Audrius Kemežys (1973-2018).
Dear visitors, please be reminded that the National Library is closed during public holidays so it will not be open to the public on the 11th of March.
The Library’s opening hours are one hour shorter on a day before a public holiday thus our Library will be open until 8:00 pm on the 10th of March.
As part of the celebration of the 700th anniversary of Vilnius, the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania invites researchers and practitioners to the international conference, “EUROPE. CAPITAL. TRANSFORMATIONS: Vilnius in the 19th-21st Centuries,” which will take place on October 19-20, 2023 at the National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius.