Between exclusivity and public access: The Kazys Varnelis House-Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania

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Anglų kalba / English
Title:
Between exclusivity and public access: The Kazys Varnelis House-Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania
Authors:
Bimbirytė-Mackevičienė, Aistė
In the Book:
The Evolving house museum: art collectors and their residences, then and now / edited by Margaret Iacono Wertz and Esmée Quodbach. Leiden: Brill, 2024. P. 235-256. (Studies in the history of collecting & art markets ; vol. 20)
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Kolekcijos / Collections; Kultūros istorija / Cultural history; Muziejai / Museums.
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ENThe Kazys Varnelis House-Museum is considered a gem of Vilnius. The institution is “hidden” within two medieval buildings in the city’s Old Town; it holds a rich collection of European and Eastern art from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, a 10,000 volume library, and optical compositions painted by the museum’s founder (Fig. 10.1). Almost all of these objects were brought from the United States, where Kazys Varnelis (1917–2010) (Fig. 10.2) spent fifty years of his life. The aim of this essay is to present the collection and discuss different aspects of its formation as well as challenges in its presentation to the public. [...]. [Extract, p. 235]

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10.1163/9789004700758_012
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9789004700758
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2024-12-28 15:44:53
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