{"id":24158,"date":"2025-08-27T08:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/naujienos\/director-general-of-the-lnma-arunas-gelunas-decorated-with-a-ukrainian-state-order\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:53:09","slug":"director-general-of-the-lnma-arunas-gelunas-decorated-with-a-ukrainian-state-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/news\/director-general-of-the-lnma-arunas-gelunas-decorated-with-a-ukrainian-state-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Director General of the LNMA Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas decorated with a Ukrainian state order\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the eve of the Ukrainian Independence Day, 23 August, Director General of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art (LNMA) Dr. Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas, together with over a hundred foreign individuals, was decorated with state honours by decree of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He was awarded an order \u201cFor Merits\u201d in the third degree.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director General of the LNMA Dr Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas, European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius, Lithuanian MP Emanuelis Zingeris, and the filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravi\u010dius, killed in Ukraine three years ago, were the four Lithuanians to receive the Ukrainian state awards. They were honoured \u201cfor their significant personal contribution to the strengthening international cooperation, supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and promoting Ukraine globally\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The LNMA is in a close relationship with the Ukrainian cultural institutions. Starting in 2020, an intense collaboration with the Ukrainian museums has been manifested by over 18 exhibitions organized under the leadership of Dr Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas, director general of the LNMA. The massive scale invasion of Ukraine has immediately prompted evacuation of the valuable museum exhibits to Lithuania for protection. There they are safeguarded and go through the process of technical examination, conservation and restoration. They are also digitized and presented to the public. Different departments of the museum, for example, the Pranas Gudynas Conservation Centre, routinely receive specialists from the Ukrainian museums as interns.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Support initiatives are another important part of the museum\u2019s activity. On 12 \u2013 14 April 2022, the LNMA put together a special series of tours<\/span> Museums to the Rescue of Museums<\/span><\/i>. The money raised during these events were used to finance the measures needed to protect the art objects. They were transferred to the colleagues in Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the autumn of the same year, in collaboration with the organization <\/span>Stipr\u016bs kartu<\/span><\/i> (<\/span>Strong Together<\/span><\/i>) the museum started an effort <\/span>Let\u2019s Keep Ukraine Warm<\/span><\/i>, raising funds for electric generators and diesel heaters. The funds reached the humanitarian support centres in Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In October 2024, the LNMA, in collaboration with the Jonas Karolis Chodkevi\u010dius Support and Charity Fund, launched a fundraising function<\/span> dedicated to the conservation of the artwork by the Ukrainian artist Maria Pryimachenko. The paintings evacuated from the Zaporizhzhya Art Museum. The resources were pooled to preserve the artwork of this unique painter for the future generations. The exhibition of Maria Pryimachenko\u2019s exhibition <\/span>I Send You Sunlit Art<\/span><\/i> was hosted by the Vytautas Kasiulis Museum of Art of the LNMA; until 14 September it was on the Pranas Dom\u0161aitis Gallery of the LNMA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, the Palanga Amber Museum of the LNMA is hosting an exhibition <\/span>Samurai Treasures: Artistic Elements of Japanese Swords and Miniature Sculpture from the Collection of the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts (until 14 September). <\/span><\/i>The exhibition<\/span> The Old Masters from the Ukrainian Museums. From the Borys Voznytskyi National Art Gallery<\/span><\/i> are on at The Clock and Watch Museum of the LNMA until 1 December, 2025. A photography exhibition of the LNMA\u2019s colleague Vadim Shamkov, titled <\/span>My Museum<\/span><\/i> opened on 4 September at the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art. Previously it was hosted by the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts, in Kyiv.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The order \u201cFor Merits\u201d in the third degree awarded to the Director General of the LNMA Dr Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas is not only an act of appreciation of his personal contribution, in a symbolic way it recognizes the museum\u2019s efforts for the preservation of the Ukrainian cultural heritage.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the eve of the Ukrainian Independence Day, 23 August, Director General of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art (LNMA) Dr. Ar\u016bnas Gel\u016bnas, together with over a hundred foreign individuals, was decorated with state honours by decree of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He was awarded an order \u201cFor Merits\u201d in the third degree.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"department":[69],"class_list":["post-24158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pranesimas","department-lithuanian-national-museum-of-art"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24158"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lndm.devmerit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=24158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}