{"id":24574,"date":"2025-12-05T13:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/taikomosios-dailes-ir-meno-muziejus\/parodos\/see-the-unseen-for-if-you-dont-youll-never-see-it-again\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:01:25","slug":"see-the-unseen-for-if-you-dont-youll-never-see-it-again","status":"publish","type":"paroda","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/museum-of-applied-arts-and-design\/exhibitions\/see-the-unseen-for-if-you-dont-youll-never-see-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"See The Unseen, For If You Don’t, You’ll Never See It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>How much of a museum do you typically manage to see? And how much can you see? Eyes strain to penetrate beyond the entrance, to take in the vaults, halls and corridors, to survey and examine every artifact. We squint, scrutinizing every detail up close, or conversely, leisurely take in the whole. A museum, it seems, could not exist without the gaze, or at least feel alive, needed and relevant.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet invisibility also haunts the museum. Like the dark side of the moon\u2014undoubtedly real, but invisible to eyes wandering through exhibition halls. These are the spaces closed to curious visitors\u2014the museum\u2019s storage facilities. Here, various artifacts, objects and works of art accumulate and are preserved: cultural valuables of different sizes, forms and contents. Visitors rarely gain entry here, and most often it is simply impossible.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A separate world hums away in storage facilities, with its own rules, customs and atmosphere. The museum\u2019s collection is meticulously maintained, cataloged, organized, and studied. Storage facilities are also a kind of waiting room: some objects rest here after a long stint on display, others prepare for their moment of glory in a future exhibition, while still others wait like patients in a doctor\u2019s office for restorers to receive them. Storage is also home to objects that have not seen exhibition lighting for decades\u2014perhaps the artifact has not yet caught a curator\u2019s eye, perhaps it preserves a memory that only distant generations will need, or perhaps it is simply too fragile to withstand a visitor\u2019s gaze.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This exhibition, for the first time in the history of the Museum of Applied Arts and Design, a division of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, reflects the concept of <\/span>visitable \/ open<\/span><\/i> storage. Here you will see the museum\u2019s collections laid out on shelves. You will encounter different collections from the Museum of Applied Arts and Design: furniture, ceramics, glass, porcelain, textiles, metal, and the \u201cyoungest\u201d but highly diverse design collection. Here you can look around, wander, admire the abundance, search for and discover familiar or completely unknown artifacts, striking curiosities and puzzle-objects. Accent pieces from the collections\u2014each with its own particular history\u2014invite the eye to linger. Some are classics, works of applied arts and design that have already become icons; others are rarities not shown publicly for years.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What you see in the exhibition constitutes roughly half the physical contents of the Museum of Applied Arts and Design storage facilities. Due to the fragility of some exhibits, their specific storage or security requirements, we cannot show you absolutely everything. The displayed objects have been prepared for your gaze and await discovery.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Open and visitable storage is a concept combining two cornerstone museum functions: preservation and display. Unlike a traditional exhibition with its didactic narrative, this type of exhibition can be viewed from various angles according to your own inclinations: browsed like a three-dimensional encyclopedia, curated into a personal exhibition of favorites, or explored through serendipity\u2014letting your eye wander among objects until something particularly alluring catches your attention, prompting closer acquaintance and surprise. This non-traditional exhibition represents a conscious and motivated step by the museum, seeking to open itself to the visitor\u2019s gaze more boldly than ever before. And for you, the visitor, this is a rare opportunity to see through the museum\u2019s walls, to experience what is usually invisible but preserved and cherished by us all.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Over 70,000 exhibits have been accumulated in the Museum of Applied Arts and Design storage facilities.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Furniture: ~1,500 exhibits\u00a0<\/p>\n

Design: ~5,000 exhibits\u00a0<\/p>\n

Historical textiles: ~2,400 exhibits\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ceramics: ~8,000 exhibits\u00a0<\/p>\n

Metal: ~3,000 exhibits\u00a0<\/p>\n

Porcelain: ~1,600 exhibits\u00a0<\/p>\n

Glass: ~900 exhibits\u00a0<\/p>\n

Textiles: ~3,300 exhibits\u00a0<\/p>\n

Archaeology: ~5,000*\u00a0<\/p>\n

Numismatics: ~40,000*\u00a0<\/p>\n

Leather: ~1,000*\u00a0<\/p>\n

* collections not displayed in the exhibition\u00a0<\/p>\n

Project director D\u017eiuljeta \u017diug\u017edien\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Curators: \u017divil\u0117 Intait\u0117, Julijus Bal\u010dikonis, Monika Gedrimait\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Collection curators: J\u016brat\u0117 Meil\u016bnien\u0117, Nijol\u0117 \u017dilinskien\u0117, Gra\u017eina Gurnevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Monika Gedrimait\u0117, Giedr\u0117 Uzielien\u0117, Egl\u0117 Pinkut\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Architect Egl\u0117 Jagmin\u0117<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Designers: R\u016bta Iva\u0161kevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Jonas Liugaila<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lighting designer Simas Rinkevi\u010dius<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Coordinator Ma\u017evydas Truklickas<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Consultants: dr. Alg\u0117 Andriulyt\u0117, dr. Dainius Labeckis<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Media partners: LRT, JCDecaux, Cgates\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Special thanks to: Dr Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas, Au\u0161rin\u0117 Ma\u010d\u0117nien\u0117, Mantas Markevi\u010dius, Tomas Orlovas, Laura Patiomkinait\u0117, Elena Prokopavi\u010dien\u0117, Rasa Bieliauskait\u0117-Mikolaitien\u0117, Lina Ona Adomaityt\u0117, Audron\u0117 Petro\u0161evi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Elena Jazbutien\u0117, Rima Tagonidz\u0117, Aust\u0117ja Janu\u0161ait\u0117, Ar\u016bnas Baublys, Darius Varnas, Rimvydas Derkintis, \u010ceslovas Petrauskas, Justas Bajoras, Augustinas Vir\u0161ilas, Ri\u010dardas Pacauskas, Audrius Janu\u0161onis, <\/span>Lithuanian Central State Archives, Lithuanian National Museum, Vilnius Academy of Art. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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