{"id":12650,"date":"2024-04-11T11:15:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T08:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaunomuziejus.lt\/permanent-exhibitions-at-the-mikas-and-kipras-petrauskas-house\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T15:58:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T12:58:16","slug":"permanent-exhibitions-at-the-mikas-and-kipras-petrauskas-house","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kaunomuziejus.lt\/en\/plan-your-visit-to-mikas-and-kipras-petrauskas-house\/mikas-and-kipras-petrauskas-house\/permanent-exhibitions-at-the-mikas-and-kipras-petrauskas-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent Exhibitions at the Mikas and Kipras Petrauskas House"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The museum currently houses two permanent exhibitions: the memorial apartment of Elena and Kipras Petrauskas and the exhibition entitled State Theatre. Music that Brings the Nation Together. <\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Kipras Petrauskas Memorial Apartment <\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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ipras Petrauskas Memorial Apartment is a permanent exhibition at the Mikas and Kipras Petrauskas House, updated in 2018. The layout of this space has remained unchanged since the house was built, except for the removed bathroom. The apartment consists of seven rooms (three memorial rooms and 4 exhibition spaces), connected by a long hallway, and a kitchen with an authentic stove decorated with brass fittings. Each room tells its own unique story.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Unique interior<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The memorial rooms (K. Petrauskas\u2019s study, living room and E. Petrauskien\u0117\u2019s room) are furnished with authentic interwar furniture, and the walls are decorated with paintings by renowned Lithuanian artists. The rooms are decorated with impressive Art Deco lamps, sculptures and souvenirs gifted to the Petrauskas family on various occasions. The Petrauskas family\u2019s conviviality and the gatherings of the Lithuanian elite that took place here are evidenced by the living room furnished with the Grotrian Steinweg grand piano, an oval table, and chairs. The study is adorned with a bookcase, an oriental-style card table, and Gloria sculpture, which was presented to the soloist on the occasion of a car race around Lithuania (1930).<\/p>\n

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History of the house<\/strong><\/h4>\n

One of the exhibition rooms presents the history of the building\u2019s construction, its inhabitants and the circumstances that led to the museum\u2019s creation. The exhibition also features an impressive Petrauskas family tree, whose branches extend all the way to the present day. In this space, you will also be able to listen to opera arias and songs performed by the soloist Kipras Petrauskas.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Kipras Petrauskas<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The permanent exhibition of the prominent soloist and educator Kipras Petrauskas introduces visitors to his creative work at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, as well as in Lithuanian diaspora circles and in Kaunas, while creating the State Theatre. The exhibition features photographs and programme leaflets from various performances as well as fan letters. Visitors can admire Petrauskas\u2019s huge touring suitcase, an impressive silver vase engraved with theatre artists\u2019 autographs, and Liutauras\u2019s stage costume from the opera Gra\u017eina, by J. Karnavi\u010dius. Behind a secret door, there are exhibits testifying to K. Petrauskas\u2019s particularly masculine hobbies.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Elena \u017dalinkevi\u010dait\u0117-Petrauskien\u0117<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In the room of Elena \u017dalinkevi\u010dait\u0117-Petrauskien\u0117 (actress, poet, playwright and translator), visitors can get acquainted with this extraordinarily talented woman, her creative activities and work at the State Theatre, and her achievements as a theatre director. An interactive telephone offers a unique opportunity to listen to her poems, voiced by the opera soloist Marija Arutiunova.<\/p>\n

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Mikas Petrauskas<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A separate room in the apartment is dedicated to Mikas Petrauskas (composer, educator, conductor, choir organiser, lecturer, publicist, active promoter of Lithuanian identity, singer, author of the first Lithuanian opera, Birut\u0117). This permanent exhibition features a rich collection of photographs, manuscripts of musical works and printed publications, documents, fragments of letters and notebooks, programme leaflets from various events, and other archival sources.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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