On April 15, Aušrinė Žilinskienė became Director General of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. Mrs. Žilinskienė was selected to lead the National Library after winning a Ministry of Culture competition in November of last year. She is the first female director general in the National Library's 105-year history.
The Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania and the Embasy of Spain would like to invite you to our Spanish Cinema Club + discussion afterwards. We will be watching the Spanish cinema classic, Todos a la cárcel by Luis García Berlanga. The film will be in Spanish with English subtitles.
Are your English skills rusty? Would you like to improve it? Come to the English Discussion Club, which takes place twice a month in the American Space at the National Library of Lithuania.
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 5:00 pm on the 10th of March.
On 22-25 February the International Vilnius Book Fair, the largest Baltic literary festival, took place at the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre LITEXPO.
Are your English skills rusty? Would you like to improve it? Come to the English Discussion Club, which takes place twice a month in the American Space at the National Library of Lithuania.
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 16th of February.
The Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania invites you to Henrikas Čerapas’ exhibition “Memorial of Papilė Cooperative Warehouse”.
Mark your calendars for February! Vilnius Jewish Public Library invites you to a short-story book club. Minna Bachman, our intern from New York, will be hosting the book club. The event will start at 6 pm on Mondays (February 12th and 19th).
Are your English skills rusty? Would you like to improve it? Come to the English Discussion Club, which takes place twice a month in the American Space at the National Library of Lithuania.
We invite you to the exhibition “Binds within binds. Vilnius Bookbinders Guild 20 year anniversary” at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania.
"What's behind these doors?" "How do 11 storage floors fit here?" "Why are we walking in a circle?" Similar recurring questions from visitors inspired to develop an unconventional virtual tour to present the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania from a unique perspective.
We often hear and celebrate the people from all around the world doing the good deeds – philanthropists, patrons, volunteers, stars donating large sums of money or celebrities establishing foundations. We do not have to look far to find examples of good and courageous deeds; our history is full of people who were righteous, but who were forced to act quietly because they were risking not only their own lives but those of their families. These are the Righteous Among the Nations of Lithuania. Their behaviour proved that the only important thing is morals, and that morals have to be stronger than fear.
The term of office of Professor Dr. Renaldas Gudauskas, the Director General of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, officially concludes on January 15, 2024. By court decision, the appointment of a new leader to assume the position is currently on hold. Therefore, as of January 16, by the decision of the Ministry of Culture, Aidas Sinkevičius, the Deputy Director General for Infrastructure, will temporarily oversee the National Library.
Over the last 200 years, Vilnius has undergone major changes in its political status as well as social and demographic transformations: from a provincial city of the Russian Empire, to an administrative center under German occupation and provincial center of Poland, to the capital of independent and Soviet-occupied Lithuania and finally, to the capital of a EU member state. During this period, the composition of the Vilnius’ population and its identities have experienced many changes, as did the social and cultural picture of the city.
Thursday, 18 January, 6 pm Vilnius Jewish Public Library of Lithuanian National Martynas Mažvydas Library invites you to a virtual Zoom lecture by Dr. Stephen Daniel Arnoff based on his book "About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan".